Beyond Today Daily

We Don’t Understand Faith

The perception of faith these days has more to do with hoping and wishing, but what action does faith require?

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[Gary Petty] We’ve been working this week on a new Beyond Today program about faith, and it’s titled, “Lord, Help Me Believe”. We’re talking about some of the problems we have in our faith – growing and having real faith – but one of the points we talk about in this program is, we don’t understand faith. Many times, people think faith is just belief – if you just believe, it’ll happen. It’s more than that. Faith is more than belief, when we see what the apostle James says, when he writes about, “you believe in God, you do well. Even the demons believe” (James 2:19). In other words, we have to have more than what the demons have – they know God exists.

We have to trust Him. We have to trust in His goodness. We have to trust in His greatness. We have to trust that He’s going to do what’s best in our lives. That’s not always easy. But when we do that, when we break through that barrier, we can begin to trust God and He will be involved in our lives. Have faith. It’s more than belief. It’s trust.

That’s BT Daily. Thanks for watching.

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Gary Petty

Gary Petty is a 1978 graduate of Ambassador College with a BS in mass communications. He worked for six years in radio in Pennsylvania and Texas. He was ordained a minister in 1984 and has served congregations in Longview and Houston Texas; Rockford, Illinois; Janesville and Beloit, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Austin and Waco, Texas. He presently pastors United Church of God congregations in Nashville, Murfreesboro and Jackson, Tennessee.

Gary says he's "excited to be a part of preaching the good news of God's Kingdom over the airwaves," and "trusts the material presented will make a helpful difference in people's lives, bringing them closer to a relationship with their heavenly Father."