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What Your Pastor Didn't Tell You About Strong Faith

Dr Dharius Daniels

Change Church • Apr 30, 2024 • 5 min

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Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.

Summary

True strong faith is defined not by its size or emotional intensity, but by its length and capacity to endure. When following God's path, believers often face a season of waiting where doubt, delay, and disappointment threaten to drain their faith. By building intentional spiritual rhythms to continually replenish our faith, we can steadily persist until we receive what God has promised.

Themes

FaithPerseveranceEnduranceWaiting on GodSpiritual Disciplines

Key Points

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Strong faith is defined by its length and endurance rather than its size or quantity.
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Jesus taught that believers only need mustard seed-sized faith to move spiritual mountains.
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Perseverance is a vital principle required to make progress and receive the promises of God.
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Hebrews 10:36 highlights that endurance is necessary even after doing the will of God.
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Perseverance is grounded in steady, deliberate action rather than emotional feelings.
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Over extended periods of time, faith naturally leaks through holes created by doubt, delays, and disappointment.
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Because faith leaks, believers must intentionally build rhythms of spiritual replenishment into daily life.
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God tests faith not only through the magnitude of obstacles, but also through the length of the wait.

Sermon Moments

“Strong faith is actually long faith.”

“Doing the will doesn't always eliminate the wait.”

“Faith is going to leak... the question isn't how do I stop it from leaking, the question is how do I keep replenishing it?”

“Perseverance has nothing to do with how I feel; it is a course of action.”

“God does not test faith by the enormity of the obstacle only; God also tests faith by the length of the wait.”

This Week

Establish daily rhythms of prayer and scripture reading to actively replenish your faith when it leaks.

Identify specific areas where doubt, delay, or disappointment are creating holes in your confidence in God.

Focus on taking steady, faithful actions today rather than waiting until you feel inspired or emotional.

Memorize Hebrews 10:36 to encourage your heart when weary after obeying God's initial directions.

Reframe long seasons of waiting as God's intentional training ground to build endurance.

Speak God's promises directly over situations where delays are causing you to consider giving up.

Commit to persistent, daily obedience in your primary calling regardless of immediate visible results.

Remember This

Strong faith is long faith—it is measured by steady persistence through the wait rather than emotional intensity.

A Challenge for You

God is not always testing your faith to see how big you can believe; sometimes He is testing your faith to see how long you can believe.

These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.