Oct 23 2025 … Growing In Faith …

Oct 23 2025 … Growing In Faith … 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    and PLEASE take the time to listen to music and lyrics, from Danny Gokey,  singing Stand In Faith, … showing Christians that we must rely on the strength of our faith to stand strong.

Struggling to grow in faith ... 

Highlight Passage: … 1Timothy 1:19  … [NLT] … 

19 Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.  

… Paul exhorts Timothy to avoid being shipwrecked in faith by falling for the false teachers in Ephesus. 

Highlight Passage in Context:  1Timothy 1:12-20 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul helps Timothy become stronger in faith as Timothy was leading the church in Ephesus. 

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… Solomon teaches his son, and all Christians, to trust in God to lead them (us) in life.

Reference Passage: … Romans 10:17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow Christians that the strength of their (our) faith comes from hearing and sharing the Good News of Christ.

Reference Passage: … Galatians 2:20   [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul gives witness to the truth that his faith grew in strength by dying to his own, selfish, ways and following Christ.

Reference Passage: … Hebrews 11:6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Author of Hebrews shows that one cannot come to God without a deep and abiding faith in Him. 

Reference Passage: …  2Timothy 3:16-17 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   Paul shows Timothy and all Christians that God has given His word to help us strengthen our faith in Him in order to follow Him.

Reference Passage: …  2Peter 3:18  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…   Peter exhorts persecuted and oppressed Christians to grow in the grace and knowledge (i.e, the faith)  of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author,  Bill Crowder  …  USE THS LNK -      …  wrote of fantasizing, in his youth, of the adventures of pirates, dreaming of their strength of purpose.  But when the ODB author grew up, he realized that His strength and purpose came from his faith in Christ … to which he needed to grow and build that faith.

Personally, as I took in the ODB entry for today (linked above) and was nurtured in faith by the linked song and Scriptures, I was convicted that, even in my 80s, I need to keep growing in my faith to be able to have the strength to resist our spiritual enemies.  After my readers hat taken in today’s song and Scriptures, do you agree that we need to grow, as Peter wrote (in 2Peter 3:18 - linked above), in the knowledge and grace given to us by God’s Spirit? …  Are you with me, seeking to grow in faith through God’s word?

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … Lord … for giving me Your word as Your manual on how to grow in faith. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... Thank You, Lord, for giving all of us Your word to help us grow in faith.  … Amen

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