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Increase Our Faith Elder Mike Montgomery
and Elder Mark Rowell

Every time we find ourselves in a horrible pit of trouble, he brings us up out it and the
miry clay of fear and despair that has us stuck, and sets our feet upon a rock, and

establishes our goings. (Psalms 40:2) Our faith is, therefore, renewed, revived, and
refreshed. It is strengthened. It has grown. It has increased. We ought, therefore, to
take the time to consider how God via our God-given faith has moved us in wondrous
ways that we otherwise would not have gone, and how it has guided us through so

many terrible things that we thought impossible otherwise to overcome.

Though not exhaustive, the following list shows some of the good things that happen
when we apply faith in our lives:

• gets us up each morning (Lam 3:23)
• gets us through the day’s difficulties (Rom 5:3-4)
• allows us to take each step in life (I Cor 5:7)

• gets us through the valleys (Psa 23:4)
• gets us through depression (Lam 3:19-23 – can’t have hope without faith)
• carries through each trial (1 Pet 1:7)
• points our eyes Heaven-ward (Heb 9:28 – can’t look up without faith)

• helps us to forgive (Luke 17:1-6)
• shows us our unworthiness in ourselves and our worthiness in Him (Mat 15:21-28)
• increases our joys (Phl 1:25)
• manifests our love (Eph 6:22)

• brings us peace (Rom 5:1)
• moves our mountains (Mat 17:20 – sometimes we are
the “mountain” that needs to be removed)
• overcomes our fears (2 Cor 1:9)

• allows us to rest on the promises of God (Rom 4:20)
• helps us to serve others (Phl 2:17, Rev 2:19)
• allows us to go to bed rejoicing that we have walked with God today (Phl 1:27)

How much more could be added to this list? It is as the Queen of Sheba exclaimed to
King Solomon after she witnessed his power and glory, “The half was not told me!”
(1 Kings 10:7) I, too, feel as if I have just scratched the surface of how faith impacts
our daily lives. Lord, increase our faith!