Did you ever notice how easy it is to sit in a chair. We either pull it out from a table or walk over to the chair and sit down. Nobody looks under the chair at the chair’s legs or performs a test to see if the chair is stable and safe! We have abundant faith to just plop down in the chair! Our faith feels pretty good while in that chair.

There are lots of things happening in life today that can rattle one’s faith! Many types of events that are happening locally and even all around the world!

Our week-long FaithFest is designed to plant, build, encourage, and reinforce your faith so that you can feel even more security than you can get from sitting in that chair!!

JOHN SHIRK – Today’s Faith-Building Verse is Psalm 46:10.

God’s Word speaks to us with this counsel- “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

The key to a confident faith is time spent with Jesus. Worship is a way of life that includes time alone with God-away from the noise of the day. We have many gadgets that can speak into our lives, and some of the content in our podcasts, broadcasts, and telecasts can be quite edifying. But there are no substitutes for intimate moments with God where we meditate on His Word and seek His face.

Luke 5:16 tells us that Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Finding a specific solitary place to be with God on a regular basis is an extraordinary step to shutting out distractions so that we can fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.

This Faith-Building Verse inspires us to be still and know the LORD in the Year of Relationship.

John Shirk

john@wjtl.com