Louie Giglio welcomes us into a collection of talks, By Faith. He teaches us that faith is a step into the promise. What promise has God spoken over you? Are you ready to fight for it?
Scripture References
35.So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.36.You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. 37.For,
“In just a little while,
he who is coming will come
and will not delay.”10:37 Isaiah 26:20; Hab. 2:338.And,
“But my righteous10:38 Some manuscripts But the righteous one will live by faith.
And I take no pleasure
in the one who shrinks back.”10:38 Hab. 2:4 (see Septuagint)39.But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
1.Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
3.By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
6.And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
8.By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9.By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10.For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11.And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she11:11 Or By faith Abraham, even though he was too old to have children—and Sarah herself was not able to conceive—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12.And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.13.All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14.People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15.If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16.Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
About the Contributor
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute. View more from the Contributor.