Faith That Stands Strong

By Don Nicely

Have you ever walked on a surface that wasn't solid?

Think about different types of uncertain terrain to navigate. Walking through a foam pit is nearly impossible. Trying to make your way through a thick forest is difficult. Wearing crocs or sandals when it is wet is a dangerous proposition. All of these are examples of not having solid footing.
Some people live their lives, from a spiritual standpoint, on shaky footing. Couple this reality with the fact that we live in a turbulent world with obstacles, winds of afflictions and troubles, and our own personal weaknesses. It is not easy to stand solidly in this world. But with this book Faith That Stands Strong you will gain the stable footing you need to stand in even the most turbulent times.
When we first become a Christian, we put our faith in Jesus for salvation. But what happens to our faith after that? Does it just stay the same, does it magically grow on its own, or do we have to work at it?
Have you ever heard about someone who packed up their life to move to some far-away, dangerous place to spread the Gospel? Did you think of them as some kind of super-Christian with super-faith and think that could never be you?
It's easy to get the wrong idea when we are just looking at the end result of a long process. It would be like looking at an Olympic runner and saying you could never run that far or fast. But no one starts out at the Olympic level my friend We all start at the same place with God and must learn how to walk with him. And as Christians, our faith doesn't start there either.
So how does one go from not running at all to running a marathon? Practice You start off running short distances, then gradually start running farther and farther until you can run a marathon. This book with help you get on that journey as you discover how others have done it before you.
The same principles apply to our faith. How does one go from being a new Christian to being able to take great steps of faith like risking our life for Christ? By taking small steps of faith at first and building up to larger and larger steps.
With running it's easy to see what steps to take to improve, just start running But what steps do we take to grow our faith on solid ground?
Hebrews chapter 11:1 says, "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.".
So, faith is being sure that something will happen even when we can't see how it will happen. For example, when you sit on a chair, do you inspect it each time and perform some load tests first? Or do you just sit on it, having complete faith that it will hold you up? Your faith in chairs has grown since childhood first by observing others sitting on chairs and through hundreds of examples of chairs holding you up. So now you don't even think about it.
Similarly, we grow our faith walk by experiencing examples of God's faithfulness along the way as we walk out days with him. We learn to stand strong with him. We can start by choosing a promise from the Bible that says if we do one thing, then some specific result will happen, even though the result might not make any sense. Each time we do this and find that the promised result really happens, despite our doubts, our faith in God grows. The next time it's easier for us to do something even when the result seems even more unbelievable. We will learn to stand strong in the faith of our lord Jesus Christ. In this book you will learn that and so much more.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F3NSCWPL
• ISBN13: 9798316492114
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"