A Prayer Of Faith (Hebrews 11:1-16)
Thank you Lord for the examples of faith you have given to us. You do not simply call us to faith in you but you give us examples of what that faith looks like in action. Those examples are real and show faith in the face of adversity, pain, weakness, human frailty, and mortal inability. Faith that is sure of what it hopes for and certain of what it does not see is lived out in what often times looks like uncertainty and impossibility. But Lord I thank you that you are God that is beyond the impossible and uncertain. You are God who's strength is beyond our ability to truly comprehend. You are God who loves even when it is not deserved. There is nothing to great or to small for you to overcome, to make right, to heal, to supply, to bring comfort to, and so much more. No matter what this life holds for me I can live in faith, live in hope and certainty that this life is not it. I have the faith to know that there is something more that awaits me beyond the boundaries of my human mortality, an eternity with you in a place that no longer holds the struggles, challenges, and pains of life. A place awaits where my faith in no longer needed because all that I have hoped in and been certain of has been revealed and given to me. Lord, I ask for you to encourage hearts today to have a faith that is sure, not unsure, but confident in the hope of what is not seen and that is in you and your salvation which is sweeter than anything else we could hope for. May you encourage hearts today to be certain of what you have told us through your word but that we do not see. Help hearts to not loose focus on the certainty of who you are, on your strength and power, and not to loose focus and certainty of the love you have and always will for us, a love that caused you to suffer and die for us so that you could rise again and be an example of the hope and certainty we can and should have in you. May today be a day of renewed hope, of renewed faith in hearts and lives.
AMEN
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