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As we look further at Hebrews 11, we’ll hear about how God honors those who act upon His word by faith, to obtain by faith in His word what they couldn’t obtain any other way. Learn more about this on today’s Treasured Truth.

Pastor Ford explains that we typically want what the people in Hebrews 11 had, but we don’t necessarily want to do what they did. And if you want what they had, then you have to do what they did. So, what did they do? They believed God fully by faith in His Word.

We can’t speak things into being. No matter how much faith we have that the words of our mouths will bring things to pass, we don’t have that kind of power. The only One who can create anything by the word of His mouth is God. Anything we get is based on what He has already called into being. ...

Perspective and perception are two key factors that affect our understanding of suffering. Our perspective governs our perception. In other words, the way we look at whatever we’re going through will determine how we perceive and comprehend it. So it’s crucial for us to try to gain God’s perspective on our suffering, instead...

Pastor Ford will remind us today that Jesus didn’t say, “Be of good cheer, I’m going to get you out of this. Be of good cheer, it’ll all be over after a while.” No, He said, “Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Jesus is saying, even when it doesn’t look like victory and doesn’t...

As we continue our study in the book of James, Pastor Ford will ask us to consider this question—even though we’re going through something right now, are we more committed to Jesus’ purpose than we are to getting out of our pain?

As we continue to consider how to see purpose in our problems and pain, Pastor Ford will explain the various kinds of suffering we can encounter.  One of those is remedial suffering, and God uses it much like a potter uses heat to cure his clay.  So, it’s during those times when God uses suffering to burn character into us...

God used Goliath, a giant, to bring David to prominence, because David was the young man whom God had chosen to later become King of Israel.  If he’d had no encounter with the giant, he would have had no prominence in his youth.  And then God used the Devil to bring Job to prominence—no Devil, no prominence.  He...

When we consider the purpose in our problems and pain, we need to realize that it’s not how much of Jesus we have, but it’s how much of us that Jesus has. We need to ask ourselves, do we really trust Him in our time of trouble?

There’s power in the name of Jesus.  So much so, that when we focus on Him and on magnifying His name, our perspective changes.  And the smaller the problems in our lives will actually become, in light of His glory. ...