1. What is failing faith?
Failing faith is when we don't believe or trust God.
2. What is the cause of failing faith?
The fear of failure will cause our faith to fail, and when we refuse to trust God in our own challenges, temptations, and difficulties. And as we read this study we do find out that are many other reasons too.
3. How to overcome failing faith?
We must turn to God's Word by reading it daily, plant the right seeds in our minds and heart, and we must keep our focus on God.
4. What are some of the questions we must asked ourselves concerning failing faith?
Where are these doubts coming from?
Has God been faithful to me in the past?
Didn't the Lord promise to meet my needs? Don't I have the help of the Holy Spirit?
Isn't the Father with me at all times? Is anything too hard for God?
Is my focus on the Lord as it should be? Could my unbelief in this situation cost me a lifetime of regret?
5. When you trust God what are you doing?
We are honoring Him and bring glory to Him, and His Son Jesus Christ.
6. When we refuse to believe that God will do as He's promised, we often experience devastating consequences. What are you in danger of? Please list them.
1) Being double-minded.
2) Becoming unstable in our ways.
3) Missing the blessings of God.
4) Having our faith destroyed.
5) Misleading others about God's character.
6) Losing our influence.
7) Weakening our testimonies.
8) Making wrong decisions.
9) Forfeiting our peace.
10) Committing costly mistakes.
11) Being discouraged in prayer.
7. What can we be assured of in the Lord when we are suffering faith failure? Name a historic faith failure from the Old Testament.
No sooner had Abraham entered the land that God had promised him, than he had to leave that very land because it is not livable. We do not yet know the story, but this is the first of many times that faithfulness to God will place Abraham and his clan at risk. From God's side, one of the governing themes that emerges in this story is the question of whether Abraham will hold fast to the promise and continue to follow God even in the midst of seeming dead ends like this one. Or will Abraham abandon the promise and seek to make his own way in the world?
And yet from Abraham's side, the questions are just as pointed. Will God be faithful to Abraham in support of the promise? Or will Abraham have to take matters into his own hands and try to shape his own future amid the realities of life? Abraham left his "promised land" and journeyed on to Egypt because there was food there. Because of the fertility of the Egyptian land watered by the annual flooding of the Nile, food was usually plentiful in Egypt even when the rains failed in Canaan. And yet this circumstance sets the stage for an immediate crisis. As Abraham was about to enter Egypt, he began to fear for his life. His fear revolved around Sarah, his wife. He was afraid that she would catch the eye of the powerful in Egypt, and they would eliminate him in order to take Sarah. So he said to Sarah (Genesis 12:1-20):
I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, "This is his wife"; then they will kill me, but they will let you live. Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account. Abraham didn't trust God then, his faith failed him.
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