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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.  (Heb 1:1)

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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see

Frederick Buechner says: 

A CRAZY, HOLY GRACE I have called it. Crazy because whoever could have predicted it? Who can ever foresee the crazy how and when and where of a grace that wells up out of the lostness and pain of the world and of our own inner worlds? And holy because these moments of grace come ultimately from farther away than Oz and deeper down than doom, holy because they heal and hallow. “For all thy blessings, known and unknown,…

Heavenly father
give us grace to give attention today to what we hope for and to what is unseen
 

¹ Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, that which is persuasive of things not seen. 
² For in this, the elders obtained testimony. 
³ By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God,
so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Heavenly father
give us grace to be so assured within ourselves about what we hope for and what is unseen that we live in a way that is pleasing to you 

⁴ By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous,
God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

⁵ By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death,
and he was not found, because God translated him.
For he has…

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Heavenly father
give us grace to live on godly fear and obedience

⁷ By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, 
prepared a ship for the saving of his house,
through which he condemned the world, (his saving of his household showed the stupidity of those who did not follow his example) 
and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Heavenly father
give us grace to seek heavenly goals today 

⁸ By faith, Abraham, when he was called,
obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance.
He went out, not knowing where he went. 
⁹ By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own,
dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. 
¹⁰ For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as strangers and pilgrims on earth, desiring a better country

¹¹ By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive,
and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 
¹² Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore,
were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

¹³ These all died in faith, not having received the promises,
but having seen…

Heavenly father
give us grace to live as those who believe in the resurrection of the dead

¹⁷ By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac.
Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son, 
¹⁸ to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,” 
¹⁹ concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead.
Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

²⁰ By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob…

Heavenly father
give us grace to be unafraid of people, to avoid the pleasures of sin and to seek first the kingdom of heaven today

²³ By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents,
because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment.

²⁴ By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 
²⁵ choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the…