Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible by Steven Furtick

Author:Steven Furtick [Furtick, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781601423238
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2010-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Hear. Speak. Do.

I’m not content to just motivate you to want to live with audacious faith. I want to enable you to develop your faith. It’s one thing to want to trust God to do impossible things through your life. It’s another thing to get to a place where you’re able to trust him at that level.

No one can transplant a heart of faith into you like it’s a new body part. Faith is more like a muscle you already have. It just needs to be strengthened. You have to be intentional about making it grow.

I’m not saying that you’re on your own with this thing or that you have to work up some feeling of faith through your own effort. You’re not out there by yourself. There are millions of Christians across the world exercising audacious faith right alongside you. And of course, there’s the divine presence and power of the Holy Spirit inside you.

But what I want to talk about in this chapter is even more basic. I want to go back to the source document of our faith: the Bible. See, the Bible is no mere book. It’s a living document. You might say it’s a living force. We call it the Word of God because in it God spoke—and still speaks.

In a way, the living Word is what audacious faith is all about. Praying a Sun Stand Still prayer might take you to all sorts of new places, but it will never take you one step away from the Word of God.

The Bible describes a process of faith formation, one that integrally involves the Word at every step:

Hearing the Word initiates faith.

Speaking the Word activates faith.

Doing the Word demonstrates faith.

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