How do I grow in my faith

How do I grow in my faith? What happens when there are seasons of life that I don't see much growth? Recently I have been in the middle of a series called, "Faith Pirates". The first week I said this, "Your faith is not in your faith. Your Faith is in the Faithfulness of Jesus Christ!" My faith grows as I see God's hand of faithfulness through out my life. Even in the little things. In fact our faith grows through the little things, the little steps of seeing God's hand of Faithfulness.

Since my kids all started walking I would put them in high places and have them jump to me. I would start of with little jumps and then move to higher jumps. Then recently my six year wanted to jump from the top of our house to me on the ground. I thought, what would make him want to jump from such a high distance. He was really willing to jump from the point of the roof of our house to me on the ground (for the record, I'm scared of heights). Then it hit me like a brick: The reason Caden at 6 years old was willing to jump to me from such an extreme height is because I had been faithfully catching him for 5 years from the small places.

Think about God's Faithfulness in your life. In fact here's a challenge I gave to our church recently. Go to Bible.org and type in God's Promises and you will find over 45 pages of promises from Genesis to Revelation single spaced. Read through those promises and see what God's Word says about how God has promised and has ALWAYS been Faithful with His promises.

So, if you want to grow in your faith, claim God's promises and look at His Faithfulness in the small areas of life not just the big areas.