What to Read When…Your Faith Needs Strengthening

Romans 5:1-11 –Not only that, but we also continue to boast about God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah, through whom we have now been reconciled. 

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 –You know that in a race all the runners run but only one wins the prize, don’t you? You must run in such a way that you may be victorious. Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades. 

That is the way I run, with a clear goal in mind. That is the way I fight, not like someone shadow boxing. 
No, I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified. 

Hebrews 10:19-25,35-39 –Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great high priest over the household of God, let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water. 

  Let us continue to hold firmly to the hope that we confess without wavering, for the one who made the promise is faithful. And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds, 
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer. 

…So don’t lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you. For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will you can receive what he has promised. For “in a very little while the one who is coming will return—he will not delay; but my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him.” 

  Now, we do not belong to those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved. 

Hebrews 11:1-12:13 –Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists. …straighten the paths of your life, so that your lameness may not become worse, but instead may be healed.