There are some popular teachings that with enough faith any problem can be overcome. If we want to live a prosperous, healthy, happy, carefree life then we just need more faith. The problem is this is not a biblical teaching about faith. The bible teaches something very different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it. <\/em>Matthew 21:22<\/p>\n\n\n\n But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. <\/em>James 2:18<\/p>\n\n\n\n All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. <\/em>Hebrews 11:13<\/p>\n\n\n\n All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised. <\/em>Hebrews 11:39<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it is impossible to please God without faith\u2026 <\/em>Hebrews 11:6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some popular teachings that with enough faith any problem can be overcome. If we want to live a prosperous, healthy, happy, carefree life then we just need more faith. The problem is this is not a biblical teaching about faith. The bible teaches something very different. You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it. Matthew 21:22 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[87],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[83],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9302","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_book-hebrews","ctc_sermon_speaker-tommy-sprinkle","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/9302\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}