Faith In Action: Expanded and Updated for the 21st Century Church

By Nora Fozard

 Get Inspiration to Prosper Your Christian Life!

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spirit Media
• Release date: Dec 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781958304587

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Faith In Action ...

Expanded and Updated

for the 21st Century Church

Nora Fozard

SPIRIT MEDIA

Copyright © 2023 Nora Fozard

Faith In Action . . . Expanded and Updated for the 21st Century Church Nora Fozard 2023© by Nora Fozard All rights reserved. Published 2023.

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I would like to dedicate this book, first of all, to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without His wisdom, direction, and guidance, this book would not have been possible. To my wonderful husband Donald, my eight children and their spouses, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, thank you for your love and support. Special thanks to Estella Pitt for all her hard work and a job well done.

Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Introduction

How to Use This Book

A Few Words About Words

FAITH: A DAILY JOURNEY

FAITH IN ACTION

SCRIPTURES TO BUILD YOUR FAITH

Your Personal Faith in Action LOG BOOK

Things to remember

Conclusion

Introduction

In this life, we find ourselves encountering many situations that cause us to lose faith in the God that created us. To the believer, we know that God is with us, but at times, because of our limitations, we lack the faith we need to believe God. When we read the word of God, which is His manifested mind, it causes us to be encouraged. It somehow boosts the faith we have and strengthens us to go on. The unbeliever, not having the true knowledge of Christ but realizing there is a God, can reach out and seek relief from trying situations and, through that realization, experience a peace that comes not from man but from God. Feeling His love through His Word, through faith we are able to accept Him in our heart. In this book, I want to encourage your heart as God has encouraged mine. May you find the strength that you need by putting your Faith in action!

Nora Fozard

How to Use This Book

I’ve organized this book in five sections. The first section, Faith, A Daily Journey, contains daily reflections about how we live in faith. There are sixty different messages, enough for two months of devotions.

The second section, Faith in Action, gives you a month of daily actions you can take to build your faith.

The third section, Scriptures to Build Your Faith, includes encouraging Bible verses about faith, prayer, and your identity as the person God made you to be.

The fourth section, Your Personal Faith in Action Log Book, gives you a place to make notes about some of the faith steps you take and how you see God respond. It’s organized in different categories to help you think about the many ways you are growing in your faith.

Finally, I’ve left you a few encouragements that I enjoy myself. Use them any way you like: open for some uplift, copy onto a sticky note for your mirror or laptop, or whatever you like to do to remind yourself that God is powering your faith. Through your faith, God is changing our world.

A Few Words About Words

Different Christian churches sometimes use words differently from each other. Here are a few words that this book may use in ways unfamiliar to you.

Confess: In court, people confess their guilt. In some churches, people confess their sins. In the Bible, people confess out loud both their sins and their beliefs. In this book, when I encourage you to confess something, I’m urging you to say out loud something you believe—or even something God has promised that you’re still trying to believe.

Faith: There are two kinds of faith. One is our human faith—the confidence we have in the outcome of our actions. This kind of faith leads us to do what we can see needs to be done. The God kind of faith is a gift to us. Without God giving us that kind of faith, our human faith doesn’t get us very far. Think about blowing a bubble with bubble gum. Human faith is what chews the gum and blows. The God kind of faith is the gum itself. Without it, there would be no bubbles! With human faith alone, we don’t get where God wants us to go.

Savior: We don’t use this word much in everyday life. There are a few people we might call saviors in our everyday world: the firefighter who got your kids out of the house just in the nick of time or the neighbor who hollered at them before they got too high up a tree. The Free dictionary says a savior is someone who saves people from danger or destruction. Jesus is our Savior because He saved us from the power of evil and from lives darkened by evil. Most 21st century people don’t like to talk about sin, but that’s what Jesus rescues us from— our own sin and the need to keep on sinning. The more people Jesus rescues from sin, the less sin there is in the world to hurt people.

Sin: This is another word we don’t use much everyday! Sin describes everything that stands between us and our God, who is perfect and holy. We mostly think about sin as wrong actions—lying or cheating. But we can’t act out of sin without having wrong beliefs that direct our behavior. A passing bad thought isn’t the same thing as a wrong belief. You can turn away a bad thought, but a bad belief is something you hang onto. And hanging onto a bad belief makes it sin, too.

FAITH: A DAILY JOURNEY

Faith never walks without leaving landmarks.

Hebrews 11:1

Nowfaithistheassurance(titledeed,confirmation)ofthings hopedfor (divinelyguaranteed), andthe evidence ofthingsnotseen[theconvictionoftheirreality—faithcomprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by thephysicalsenses].

God has left so many faith landmarks in my life, more than I can tell you here. So I’ll just tell you one story about a night the Lord kept me and my sister safe from a crazy man who was chasing us in his truck.

We were headed to a revival all the way over in Pittsboro that night, which was about thirty miles from where we lived. When we were getting close, we realized we were low on gas. So we pulled into a gas station, and I went inside to prepay.

This guy was sitting at a table playing cards and he followed me out. He threw his hand at us in a threat, and we knew he was going to follow us. We zipped right out of there without even filling up. We didn’t have any gas, we didn’t have anything, and he’s in his truck right behind us.

My sister was so scared, her feet were trembling. You hold my feet on the gas pedal, she said. We were going so fast! I could see this star in the sky, and I told her the Lord was saying follow this star … We can’t go any other way, we have to follow this star.

The star looked like it was moving, slowly moving. The guy in the truck was flying, trying to catch up with us.