Daily Faith Defined
- Daily Faith: Faith that is produced and grows on an everyday basis
- Sometimes there’s no feeling attached to it, but we have to take a step every single day for as long as you’re growing
- Daily faith is when nobody sees it; it’s all about consistency
- The enemy is not afraid of our yearly, monthly, weekly, and/or Sunday faith. He’s afraid that we’ll mature to a place that our faith becomes a part of who we are on an everyday basis
- The devil is afraid we won’t just know of God, but we will know God
- Book of Mark: Seed and Ground
- Mark 4:14-20: The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!
- One of the things stopping our faith from reaching it’s fullest extent entails things that are making our ground not a place where the seeds can grow
- Mark 4:14-20: The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away. The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word. The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced. And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!
What is Stopping Your Faith From Growing?
1. Damage
- Mark 4:14-15: The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others. The seed that fell on the footpath represents those who hear the message, only to have Satan come at once and take it away.
- The seed that fell on the footpath was once fertile ground, but it has been walked on for so long, it has become a footpath, damaged ground
- Your faith cannot grow as long as you’ve segregated the footpaths in your life as a place where God will not move
- A footpath is nothing but a trail of lies, and if you don’t surrender it to God, it can misalign your life with God’s forever
- John 15:16: You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
- God chose and appointed us to bear fruit. Sometimes, we need to remind ourselves that we are chosen. We are not a mistake!
2. Depth
- Mark 14:16-17: The seed on the rocky soil represents those who hear the message and immediately receive it with joy. But since they don’t have deep roots, they don’t last long. They fall away as soon as they have problems or are persecuted for believing God’s word.
- The seed planted on shallow ground grew roots that can’t run deep. The plant withers when facing hardship.
- What helps a plant’s roots run deep is remaining – remaining in God
- John 5:5-9: One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath.
- Focus to remain with God; for our faith to grow, our understanding of God’s love has to grow with it.
- John 5:5-9: One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?” “I can’t, sir,” the sick man said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up. Someone else always gets there ahead of me.” Jesus told him, “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” Instantly, the man was healed! He rolled up his sleeping mat and began walking! But this miracle happened on the Sabbath.
3. Distractions
- Mark 14:18-19: The seed that fell among the thorns represents others who hear God’s word, but all too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, so no fruit is produced.
- John 15:2: He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
- If you don’t cut off the distractions that hinder the spiritual growth to your own life (e.g. friends, hobbies, attitudes, etc.), God will cut it off
- There are some distractions that you’re going to have to prune. It’s painful but it’s only through pruning that you can grow more fruit.
- Faith grows in the discipline. Discipline is doing it (withdrawing from the world to pursue God) even when it doesn’t feel good but you know it’s necessary.
- Luke 23:46: Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last.
- Jesus was so daily with His faith, His last breath was of faith
- Luke 23:46: Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last.
Tinsai Worke
Hi! My name is Tinsai Worke, but you can just call me Tina. I am a young, devoted Christian and a part-time note-taker for different online sermons.
