My Nets yet to Drop: The Power in Conceding a Limited Faith

By Steven Randolph

My Nets Yet to Drop serves as a revealing and a calling. A blowing of the shofar to all who have anchored their hope in God through the necessary and most magnificent blood sacrifice and resurrection of our Lord Jesus. To any who will hear the call, its to bare your real faith, the actual faith reflected in your work and the work you are able to do. Its to challenge your faith to its highest expression and awaken to the holy required activity of discovering more of God in the mining through and charting of His mysteries.

These writings are to challenge and speak specifically to those who have a heart for God to chase Him tenaciously in the uncommon placesthe harder, less obvious places where few have mapped any portions of the maze of complexities that stand between our common understanding and the smallest exposure of His glory. In those places, full, limitless faith and the required work to produce such faith are the keys to the map of complete discovery of our Creator.

I hope you will join me to no longer accept being one of the thousands of limited-faith Israelite soldiers who watched in awe as the boy David accepted their challenge with full faith. Lets become completely accomplished to ignore the taunts and jeers of the enemy, to quietly and confidently reach down for a few smooth stones to do our Fathers work through our potential, limitless faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Sep 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781512709070

Steven Randolph

Steven is a mathematician and computer scientist who lives in Massachusetts as a software architect. He has been published in the Java Developer’s Journal and has a bachelor of science from Gordon College. He has been a Christian for thirty-seven years, with an unparalleled openness to reveal His spiritual inadequacies and struggles and detail steps from remedy through progress and finally to conclusive realizations.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Preface

Chapter 2 Introduction

Chapter 3 Opening Prayer

Chapter 4 For the Old and New

Chapter 5 Once Again Intervened

Chapter 6 My Limited Faith

Chapter 7 A Battle for Contexts

Chapter 8 Net Droppers

Chapter 9 Common Faith

Chapter 10 Scenarios of Limited Faith

Chapter 11 My Potential Faith

Chapter 12 Work Towards a Full Faith

Chapter 13 In Closing

Chapter 14 Acknowledgement

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Preface

My Nets Yet to Drop was a decade’s challenge to openly and honestly review my faith. For this, I could only use YESHUA (Jesus) and the early church as my example. Being inadequate to compare my faith with the perfect, yet attainable, example of His and eventually their faith, I made the following statements:

• My then (and still now) faith is a limited faith.

• My limited faith hinders ALL He has planned for me thus far.

• My limited faith reflects the limited love I have expressed towards Him.

• My limited faith shows a diminished appreciation for Him and His Son.

• My limited faith has cost me blessings.

• My limited faith is reflected by my limited work.

• My limited faith has influenced others in the Body to stumble.

• My limited faith stops me from performing miracles.

• My limited faith makes me barely distinguishable from the world.

• My limited faith was my decision, and not His intention.

• My limited faith will limit my ability to seek Him, find Him, and obey Him.

• My limited faith limits the amount of Love I accept from Him.

• My limited faith will never allow me to completely overcome my old nature.

• My limited faith does not cast all my cares upon Him.

• My limited faith makes my life a mockery of His design for me.

If, after reading these statements about my faith, none apply to you, congratulations and praise YAHWEH (God). You truly are a complete net dropper with a limitless, unwavering, and active faith. For the rest, please continue reading to an awakening of His truths of who we are as believers.

Next, I turned my attention to my potential faith. This is His hoped for Unlimited (Full) Faith. I then made the following statements:

• My potential faith is limitless.

• My potential faith engages ALL He has planned for me thus far.

• My potential faith reflects the limitless love I can express towards Him.

• My potential faith shows a full appreciation for Him and His Son.

• My potential faith will enable all blessings available to me.

• My potential faith will be reflected by limitless work.

• My potential faith will influence others in the Body to be their best.

• My potential faith enables me to perform miracles.

• My potential faith makes me completely distinguishable from the world.

• My potential faith is my decision, and His intention.

• My potential faith will optimize my ability to seek Him, find Him, and obey Him.

• My potential faith will not limit the amount of Love I accept from Him.

• My potential faith will completely overcome my old nature.

• My potential faith casts all my cares upon Him.

• My potential faith aligns my life with His design for me.

If none of these is appealing, maybe you should stop reading. Perhaps you feel no obligation to spend time to simply challenge your faith. For the rest, let our angst turn to hope, our discouragement turn to inspiration, for the entire potential of our faith is within reach. Allow me to guide us through what He has encouraged me with. To finally work towards the courage, confidence, and freedom to live a life