BIG PICTURE: Faith isn’t having all the answers or seeing the outcome before we act. It’s confidence in God’s character and promises, even when we can’t see how they’ll be fulfilled.
TEXT: Proverbs 3:5-6; Hebrews 11:1,6

KEY VERSE: Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]. – Hebrews 11:1 AMP

FAITH? WHAT IS IT?

Faith is a

step based a deep conviction born out of a relationship with God.

It’s a

you travel over time.

Doubt and fear are

on the journey.

It’s a “knowing in your

” when circumstances scream otherwise.

YOU’VE GOTTA GET OFF THE COUCH

Faith must be

.

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. —Romans 10:12

Faith isn’t manufactured, it’s

.

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. —James 2:17

Faith is setting your eyes on a greater

.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. —Hebrews 12:1-2