Characteristics of True Believing V3Pt5
Consider the Promise not the Problem
Sunday, March 5, 2023
I. Being Fully Persuaded
A. How to Be Fully Persuaded
1. (Rom. 4:17-21 KJV) Abraham was fully persuaded.
a. Being fully persuaded is believing God with all your heart despite contrary physical evidence.
2.What’s involved with being fully persuaded?
#1.Know the promise of God for your situation.
#2. Embrace the promise of God with all your heart.
#3. Don’t consider anything contrary to the promise of God.
B. Consider the Promise not the Problem
1. (Rom. 4:19-20) Abraham considered that God’s promise was greater than his problem.
a. (v19) considered – to fix one’s eyes or mind upon; to observe fully
b. (v20) stagger, doubt, waver
~(Jas. 1:5-8) double-mindedness
c. (v20) glory – praise, honor, worship, good opinion.
2. Faith single-mindedly focuses on the promise and not the problem.
a. (2 Cor. 4:18 AMP; 2 Cor. 5:7)
~(John 4:24; 6:63)
~(Rom. 8:5-6)
b.(1 Pet. 2:24 AMP)
~(Jos. 1:7-9; ref. Num. 20:12)
~(Prov. 3:5-8)
~(Prov. 4:20-23)
3. Let’s see some examples.
a.(Num. 13:27-33) Grapes and not the giants!
b. (Mark 5:25-34) Woman with issue of blood.
[Pastor Lee Stokes]