People of Faith

Hebrews 11

What do you do when you pray and pray, but see no answer to your prayers? Unanswered prayer in the life of a believer can be extremely discouraging. What about someone who has cancer? Prayer is made without ceasing. Prayers made in faith that God would heal. Yet with all of this, still God does answer with healing!

When God did not heal her son, one woman said, "I will never bother God again!" Another mother said she had given up on prayer because she had prayed for eighteen years that God would use her daughter on the mission field, but instead she married an unsaved man and isn't serving God at all.

Christians pray for many things that don't happen. Many get discouraged when God doesn't come through the way that they expect Him to. With that in mind, I want us to consider the matter of faith. Please note four observations about faith that we can see from Hebrews chapter eleven, the great faith chapter.

I. Sometimes Faith Changes Our Circumstances.

II. Sometimes Faith Does Not Change Our Circumstances

III. People of faith never-judge God by Circumstances.

IV. Faith isn't merely receiving from God the things that we would like to receive..... Faith is being able to accept whatever God gives us

It is very easy for us to selfishly pray that God would make life convenient for us.

But we ought to consider Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. Note: Mt. 26:39