{"id":26101,"date":"2016-08-20T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0309-304-encouragement-to-faith\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:25:11","slug":"0309-304-encouragement-to-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0309-304-encouragement-to-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"0309.     304. Encouragement to Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>304. Encouragement to Faith<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s promises are the cause of our encouragement. Jehovah gave Abram four \u201cI will\u2019s\u201d of promise\u2014Gen_12:1-3.<\/p>\n<p>1. The \u201cI will\u201d of Revelation. \u201cI will show thee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. The \u201cI will\u201d of Re-creation. \u201cI will make thee a great nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. The \u201cI will\u201d of Renown. \u201cI will bless thee and make thy name great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. The \u201cI will\u201d of Reciprocation. \u201cI will bless them that bless thee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faith not only honours God, but God honours faith. Jehovah\u2019s benedictions come to faith, and faith is always a benediction to others. Recall some men of God, who have been blessed by God, and who in turn have become a blessing to others. General Gordon, the faithful soldier; Moffat, the ardent missionary; Livingstone, the persevering explorer; Gladstone, the eloquent statesman; Muller, the devoted believer; Wilberforce, the slave emancipator; and Elizabeth Fry, the friend of prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>By: DR. F. E. MARSH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>304. Encouragement to Faith God\u2019s promises are the cause of our encouragement. Jehovah gave Abram four \u201cI will\u2019s\u201d of promise\u2014Gen_12:1-3. 1. The \u201cI will\u201d of Revelation. \u201cI will show thee.\u201d 2. The \u201cI will\u201d of Re-creation. \u201cI will make thee a great nation.\u201d 3. The \u201cI will\u201d of Renown. \u201cI will bless thee and make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/0309-304-encouragement-to-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;0309.     304. Encouragement to Faith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}