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<\/del>\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then He got into the boat and His disciples followed Him. <\/span>
\nSuddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. <\/span>
\nBut Jesus was sleeping.<\/span>
\nThe disciples went and woke Him, saying, \u201cLord, save us! We\u2019re going to drown!\u201d<\/span>
\nHe replied, \u201cYou of little faith, why are you so afraid?\u201d <\/span>
\nThen he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.<\/span>
\nThe men were amazed and asked, \u201cWhat kind of man is this? <\/span>
\nEven the winds and the waves obey him!\u201d<\/span>
\nMatthew 8:23-27 NIV<\/span><\/p>\n

I have always known that faith<\/span> <\/strong>take you up high while fear hesitates and drags you down. There have been many times we have failed to exercise faith and we have ended up disappointing God. In Hebrews 11:6 the Bible says \u201c...without faith<\/em> <\/strong>we cannot please God.\u201d What is this faith<\/span> <\/strong>we are talking about?<\/p>\n

Faith is<\/strong><\/span> the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
\nHebrews 11:1<\/p>\n

Faith<\/span> <\/strong>is a raw material for a product we are going to have<\/em>. \u00a0As Hebrews 11:6 explicitly says without this raw material—faith<\/strong><\/span>—we cannot<\/span> please God. \u00a0For us to have our hearts\u2019 desires we need to have faith in the Giver and believe His word with no doubt at all.<\/p>\n

The disciples forgot that Jesus was everything and started doubting…hence Jesus\u2019 question (Matthew 8:25). \u00a0Jesus called Peter to walk on the sea toward Him. At first Peter did…and was not drowning but he started doubting and focused on the waters THEN he started drowning. The Bible records Jesus confronting Peter: \u201cYou of little faith, why did you doubt?\u201d \u00a0(Read this record here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So little<\/strong> faith<\/strong> <\/span>can be a raw material for us to have a product that is not attractive and leads to not having a product at all.<\/em> We need to build our faith always. So, how do we build our faith? By hearing the Word of God.<\/p>\n

Faith<\/strong> <\/span>comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
\nRomans 10:17<\/p>\n

Meditate on the Word of God (Joshua 1:8<\/a>), personalize the Word, receive it with gladness and obey what it says and, in so doing, we shall eat the good of the land.<\/p>\n

Our God is good and He has made everything possible for us. It is our own wrong choices that lead us not to reach out to the great benefits that God has planned for us…if we only obey Him.<\/p>\n

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Dear Heavenly father, I thank You for Your lovingkindness that endures forever. Thank You for who You are in our lives. Thank You for You are our Father who hears our prayers. We give You glory and honor. We pray, Lord, that You help us build our faith everyday as we study and meditate on Your word and as we listen to Your voice. Open our ears to hear what You are talking about and open our eyes to see Your greatness in the Word. May we live a life pleasing unto You always, in Jesus\u2019 name I pray. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Then He got into the boat and His disciples followed Him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke Him, saying, \u201cLord, save us! We\u2019re going to drown!\u201d He replied, \u201cYou of little faith, why are you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3188,3367,365,1287,425,8208,490,491,7612,7834,8207,7632,3174,8209],"class_list":["post-23878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-faith","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-have-faith","tag-hebrews-111","tag-hebrews-116","tag-joshua-18","tag-matthew-823-27","tag-matthew-826","tag-romans-1017","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-what-is-faith","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6d8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23885,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878\/revisions\/23885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}