Without Faith, it is Impossible to Please God

Pr Kenneth Chin
20-08-2017

Faith is central to the life of a Christian.

Hebrews 11:6New International Version (NIV)
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.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God.

As Christians, we live to please God.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God.

But he who comes to God must believe that He is; He is the rewarder of those who dilligently seek Him.

Faith and expectation are married.

God is no respecter of man. He does not reserve His healing only for some.

Expect more because God moves by our expectations.

It is not the magic that is in man.

Faith without expectation is not faith.

If expectation determines faith, what determines expectation?

Perception determines expectation determines reception.

God is very rarely working on our expectation. God usually works on our perception.

God is always working on my perception.

God knows all my needs even before I ask Him.

He is bigger.

In every level of faith encounter, He is after the way we see Him. Nothing is too difficult for Him.

Can He come through or not? Does He really care? 

Yes, He does.

If God has something better for you, and you settle, then that's wrong.

God provides. He always provides.

Luke 24:13-35New International Version (NIV)
On the Road to Emmaus

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;16 but they were kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a prophet,powerful in word and deed before God and all the people.20 The chief priests and our rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him,and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

33 They got up and returned at once to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, assembled together 34 and saying, “It is true! The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.” 35 Then the two told what had happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized by them when he broke the bread.

Learn to look at each other differently.

Let's begin with each other.

1 Corinthians 2:9King James Version (KJV)
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Thank God for what you have and work with what you have.