Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

I thought we'd study in Luke chapter 5 today. This is one of my favorite action passages,

gives us a real picture of three different elements of faith that I want to bring out today.

And one of my friends who is really astute actually happens to be my barber as well. What's up,

Fly Thai? Fly Thai ran a marathon yesterday. He said, pray for me, Pastor. I have a marathon. I have not trained. And I said,

do you never listen to anything I preach? You can't, come on, you can't skip training and

then blame it on prayer when you throw up on mile six. But he finished. He finished. And he was

telling me the other day, he said, you tricked us.

I thought this was a giving series at the end of the year.

And in a way it is because we're giving an offering.

Like was given to build elevation, Blakeney, like was given to build the campus that you sit in today.

And we're doing that at the end of the series, six-week series, I believe six weeks.

And that'll be very special and very important because we use that offering to build the church.

But God uses the offering to build your faith.

And so he said, I thought it was a giving series.

It's really a faith series, isn't it?

And I said, absolutely, you got it.

That's what Waymaker is.

And now, faith is the way God blesses you.

Grace is the means.

Faith is the way.

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