Having a Believing Faith
February 27, 2022 / Mark 5:36
Welcome
Song of Praise “This I Believe”
Call to Worship Psalm 145:17-21
Song of Praise “God, All Nature Sings Thy Glory”
Confession of Faith Hebrews 11:1
Song of Praise “Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me”
Prayer of Adoration
Greet One Another
Reception of New Members Steve and Wanda Carlton
Ministry Spotlight Discovery Weekend
Prayer of Intercession
Giving of God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
Scripture Reading Mark 5:21-43
Song of Preparation “Heal Us, Emmanuel”
Sermon “ Identity in the King: Having a Believing Faith” Craig Swartz
Prayer of Commitment
Song of Response “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)”
Benediction
Sermon Notes
Charles Spurgeon said it this way:
“I am perfectly satisfied myself to believe what he writes to me, and if it is so written in his book, it seems to me to be quite as true and sure as if he had actually come from heaven, and had talked with me, or had appeared to me in the visions of the night. Oh, to have ‘the word of Christ’ always dwelling inside of us; —in the memory, never
forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!”
- THE OF FAITH
Mark 9:23
John 14:13-14
C.S. Lewis:
“Our faith is not a matter of our hearing what Jesus said long ago and ‘trying to carry it out.’ Rather, the real Son of God is at your side. He begins to turn you into the same kind of thing as himself… He is beginning to turn the tin soldier into a live man.”
2. THE OF FAITH
Jerry Bridges:
“God’s guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life’s plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God’s shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is to learn to trust Him to guide us.”
Mark 5:35
Nancy Guthrie
“Though it is hard to wait on God, and though it sometimes seems to us that God is slow, God’s timing is always perfect.”
3. THE OF FAITH
Charles Spurgeon:
“Here is the great marvel of it. Little as was her knowledge, great as was her unbelief, and astounding as was her misconception of her Lord. Yet her faith, because it was real faith, saved her.”
Frances Crosby:
“All the way my Savior leads me, what have I do ask beside? Can I doubt His tender mercy, Who through life has been my guide? Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort, Here by faith in Him to dwell! For I know, whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well; for I know, whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well.”