Believing Beyond the Test-2

Strong Faith

• My faith is only as strong as the test it survives.
• In car manufacturing, they don't test all the cars. They test one engine, and then produce many others in its image. They make thousands in the image of one that was tested.
• The tested engine becomes the model, the prototype, so that they can use that one engine as the mentor for the others.

Luke 22:31-32

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail.

And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.

Hebrews 5:7-

During the days of Jesus' life on earth,

He offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears

to the One who could save Him from death,

and He was heard because of His reverent submission.

Son though he was, he learned obedience from what He suffered

and once made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation

for all who obey Him...

• When I'm going through a tough time, it is a good sign that God wants to use me as a model. Go through the test and pass because God wants to make many others after your image.
• You don't just get called to ministry. You get qualified for ministry.
• Sometimes we think test is strange. It is not strange. It is normal when God wants to use you.