Sunday, 6/14/2026

Faith Activated: Seeing From God’s Point Of View

Faith is the key to living the Christian life.

Faith is the key to miracles.

Romans 1:17 (CSB) For in it (the Gospel) the righteousness of God is

revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by

faith.

Hebrews 11:6

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.

God wants to reward you for earnestly seeking him!

Faith is multifaceted.

Faith is seeing from God’s point of view.

Faith is not self-centered desire.

James 4:1–3

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. ³ When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Desire may lead you to faith, but desire isn’t faith.

Faith is not pretending that something is true that isn’t true.

Faith is not a feeling.

Feelings often get in the way of faith.

Faith is not negotiating with God

Faith is a way of seeing.

Faith is a way of looking at the world from God’s point of view.

Hebrews 11:1 (NLT)

Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see.

The Bible says that faith is a way of seeing.

Ephesians 1:15–18

¹⁵ Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere,^{[a] 16} I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, ¹⁷ asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom^[b] and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. ¹⁸ I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.^[c]

There’s an unseen realm in the world that’s more real than what we see with

our human eyes.

We exaggerate our difficulties.

We underestimate our own abilities.

Many people are still enslaved by lies spoken over them years ago.

We get discouraged.

Numbers 14:1 (NKJV) So all the congregation lifted up their voices and

cried, and the people wept that night.

We gripe and complain.

We give up and blame God.

Numbers 14:3 “Why is the Lord bringing us to this land to be killed?”

Faith resizes my problems.

If you have a big God, your problems get small.

Genesis 18:14 “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”

Luke 1:37 “Nothing is impossible with God.”

Faith opens the door for a miracle.

Mark 11:22–24

²² Then Jesus said to the disciples, “Have faith in God. ²³ I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. ²⁴ I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.

Faith is a higher law than the laws of nature.

Faith moves God to act on my behalf.

Matthew 9:29 “According to your faith it will be done to you.”

Faith unlocks all the promises of God.

2 Corinthians 1:20 (NLT)

²⁰ For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory.

Faith turns God-given dreams into reality.

Ephesians 3:20

²⁰ Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.

Faith gives me power to hold on in tough times.

Faith doesn’t always take you out of the problem—it takes you through the

problem.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9 “We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are

not crushed… perplexed, but we don’t give up… knocked down, but we are

not knocked out.”