Spirit of Faith

At the end of every podcast, we like to ask our guests to share what God has been teaching them in this season of life. This week’s guest is Mark DeYmaz.

2 Timothy 1:7

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. That has been a verse that sustained me certainly over the past 40 plus days in this current pandemic because I love the interplay of that verse. God has not given us a spirit of fear.

We have a spirit of faith. We have the Holy Spirit with us. We have a spirit of faith. But it goes on to say that that is a spirit of faith, power, love and of sound judgment or of self-discipline. 

And I love that verse both in terms of this time of pandemic and others, because it says, yes, we have faith, but we also exercise self-discipline, sound judgment. And that's how God always works. 

I mean, how do people get saved? God just doesn't write John 3:16 on the Rocky Mountains. He says, hey you. You go and tell people about me. So God in his sovereignty has set up the partnership. Yes, it's him, but it's also us on all of these things, from salvation to these money matters of the church.

 So, yes, we proceed by faith. But we also do it with sound judgment, wisdom, a sound mind, if you will. And together with God's faith and a sound mind is what gets us power and love and helps us advance a credible gospel in an increasingly diverse, painfully polarized, and cynical society. 

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