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Building a Strong

Foundation of Faith

Every person has faith. Faith is a belief in When you have decided to build

something or someone that is not seen a strong foundation or to strengthen

physically. Some may have faith in an existing one; remember that God

themselves and their abilities; faith in is the main builder.

their clothes: or faith in their employer.

Psalm 127:1

Having faith in a person or an object

shows that you believe that person or that Except the LORD build the

object will provide everything you need house, they labour in vain

and will give you comfort. Having true that build it: except the

faith is not having faith in seen things LORD keep the city, the

but it is having faith in God. Friends, watchman waketh but in vain.

houses, clothes or your employer are

temporary and can fail you at any time;

but God is a permanent presence and God builds our faith by

will never fail us. giving instructions and we then

carry these instructions out.

Having faith in God requires that we rely Just as an architect creates

on God for all things, including clothing, building plans and gives them

food, shelter, employment, and preservation to builders to build a structure,

of our lives. In order to support our faith in God gives us a plan to make

both good and challenging times, a strong our faith stronger.

foundation of belief in God's words and

abilities is needed.

James 2:26

Matthew 7:24-25 For as the body without

the spirit is dead, so faith

24. Therefore whosoever heareth these without works is dead also.

sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will

liken him unto a wise man, which built

     his house upon a rock:                                    A strong foundation of faith
                                                                         is not shown by words alone
25. And the rain descended, and the                     but is shown by our actions.

floods came, and the winds blew, and Saying but not acting out the

beat upon that house; and it fell not: words of God shows a lack

for it was founded upon a rock. of faith. We prove our faith
to God by showing our good

works to him.

To build a house of faith that will be

supported through all conditions of life

requires wisdom. Using wisdom can James 1: 25

allow us to avoid life-threatening situations

and to live abundantly on a daily basis. But whoso looketh into the

perfect law of liberty, and

continueth therein, he being

Proverbs 24:3 not a forgetful hearer, but