In addressing faith, the topic really begins right here. We can lean into what we know and understand about God and His ways, or we can trust in our own understanding. When it comes to having faith, the Bible often portrays it as a question of whose perspective we intend to rely on. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Do not be wise in your own eyes fear the Lord and shun evil. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Trust the Lord with all your heart (Proverbs 3:5-8)
Let’s press in and see if we get a better understanding of this essential topic. We’ve pulled together 10 key passages about faith and doubt to help illuminate the differences (and maybe even similarities) between faith and doubt. If faith pleases God, then what do we do with our doubt? Are our questions a sign that we lack saving faith? Is doubt the opposite of faith? Is faith about making ourselves feel certain? These are critical and nuanced questions. And sometimes, the topic is presented in ways that are confusing and only increase people’s anxiety about their doubt. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.Īnd whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.Issues of faith and doubt have a massive impact on Christians of every maturity level. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
'Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek.
Verse ask and you shall receive how to#
If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"īut without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be opened to you. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!Īnd He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’ and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed I cannot rise and give to you’? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. "Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be opened to you. Playlist: Go to the Ask, Seek, and Knock (topic) playlist
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