Prevailing Providence

Prevailing Providence

Welcome to our Briggs Chapel Wednesday Evening Preaching and Teaching Time with Pastor Nick Holden (01.11.2023).

What is faith?

Faith sees, agrees, and acts, TODAY, on what God sees. That's the beauty of grace rooted faith. Nope, it doesn't need or demand to see everything that God sees, nor does it need to, for it sees enough, to take possession of what God promises right NOW, to propel the servant of God to live FOR His glory. The just, no doubt, live BY faith... or we can say, they live BY the word of God, which means, they live BY hearing from God and for Him. Glory...

There is no such thing as blind faith. It takes light to see and a word to hear.

He believed God and spoke what he heard.

God's eternal message overruled the natural world.

He's speaking life. And the ultimate aim of it all — God chose to resurrect the physically dead to resurrect the spiritually dead.

For which is the very reason Peter came to Joppa and why God prepared him for a meeting with a Gentile. Not just any Gentile, but the man God chose to make Himself known to, through the message Peter would bring to him.

The people and places they were at.
To put it in Peter and the men of Joppa to send for Peter in Lydda and Peter to go to Joppa.

Peter hears and speaks from God.
Mustard seed kind of faith.
Ezekiel speaking to the dry bones.
Jesus cursing the fig tree.

God Chose

He chose to prepare Cornelius — The Receiver
He chose to prepare Peter — The Revealer

Cornelius still needed a messenger so that he could hear the message of Jesus.

Two men - both had a vision to prepare them for the work and will of God.

Both had to Act in faith.

He chooses the receivers.
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