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Faith · 21 days

21 Days of Faith

Let practical faith reshape your life.

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Who it’s for

Practical exercises to strengthen your faith day by day.

  • Starting over — Let go of the weight and begin again with God.
  • Money and work — Wisdom, provision and rest in what you do.
  • Grow in faith — Prayer, the Word and consecration, one day at a time.

What you’ll grow in

  • Trust
  • Perseverance
  • Obedience
  • Hope

How the journey is organized

Week 1 · What faith is

Hebrews 11 and Abraham’s journey: believing before seeing.

  1. Day 1What faith isHebrews 11:1
  2. Day 2Faith that comes from hearingRomans 10:17Available in the app
  3. Day 3Drawing near to GodHebrews 11:6Available in the app
  4. Day 4Going out without knowingHebrews 11:8Available in the app
  5. Day 5Counting the starsGenesis 15:5Available in the app
  6. Day 6Faith that doesn’t waverRomans 4:20Available in the app
  7. Day 7God will provideGenesis 22:8Available in the app

Week 2 · Faith in action

Faith that moves, and that holds when it is tested.

  1. Day 8Faith that movesJames 2:17Available in the app
  2. Day 9The lion and the bear1 Samuel 17:37Available in the app
  3. Day 10In the name of the Lord1 Samuel 17:45Available in the app
  4. Day 11Touching his clothesMark 5:28Available in the app
  5. Day 12Stepping out of the boatMatthew 14:29Available in the app
  6. Day 13The outstretched handMatthew 14:31Available in the app
  7. Day 14God with Joseph in prisonGenesis 39:21Available in the app

Week 3 · Faith that perseveres

Keep going until the journey becomes a testimony.

  1. Day 15Like goldJob 23:10Available in the app
  2. Day 16I believe, help meMark 9:24Available in the app
  3. Day 17A grain of mustard seedLuke 17:6Available in the app
  4. Day 18Even though it does not flourishHabakkuk 3:18Available in the app
  5. Day 19Eyes on JesusHebrews 12:2Available in the app
  6. Day 20Tell what he has doneMark 5:19Available in the app
  7. Day 21I have kept the faith2 Timothy 4:7Available in the app

Day 1 · What faith is

Today’s reading: Hebrews 11:1-16

1Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. 2For by this, the elders obtained approval. 3By 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. 4By 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. 5By faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. 6Without 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. 7By 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 and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. 8By 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. 9By 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. 10For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11By 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. 12Therefore 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. 13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return. 16But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 11:1-16 · World English Bible

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1 · World English Bible

Context

The Letter to the Hebrews was written to Christians of Jewish background, probably before the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in AD 70. They had faced persecution, the loss of their possessions and imprisonment (Hebrews 10:32-34), and some were thinking of turning back. Chapter 11 comes right after a call to persevere and works as a hall of faith: a gallery of people who trusted God without seeing the full fulfillment of what he had promised. The author is not named in the text.

Picture a room full of tired people. They are not people who never believed; they are people who believed, paid dearly for it, and now wonder whether it was worth it. Some had already lost their possessions; others had visited friends in prison. Hebrews 11 was written for people like that. And before giving any advice, the author stops and says what faith is.

Assurance is what lies underneath and holds things up. It is the foundation nobody sees when they look at a house, but it keeps the house from falling. Proof is what convinces, the evidence that makes someone say: this is real. Faith, then, is not an emotion that comes and goes, nor an effort to think positively. It is solid ground beneath what you still hope for, and conviction about what you do not yet see.

Notice that the text does not say faith makes the things we hope for happen the way we want. It says faith gives firmness to the one who waits. A little further on, the same chapter reminds us that many died without receiving what was promised; they saw it from afar, greeted it from afar, and kept going. Biblical faith is not a shortcut out of waiting. It is the way to walk through it standing up.

That is why faith does not rest on itself. It is worth what is on the other end. A thin rope tied to a solid rock holds better than a thick rope tied to a rotten branch. What holds up Abel, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, in the lines that follow, is not the strength of their trust but the faithfulness of the One who promised. They counted him faithful who had promised.

Maybe you are starting these 21 days feeling closer to that tired room than to a hall of heroes. That is not a problem. The hall of faith in Hebrews 11 is full of people who hesitated, laughed at the promise, took wrong turns, and were still remembered for their faith. What unites them is not perfection but direction: they were looking toward God.

Today you do not need to produce more faith. You only need to remember whom it rests on. Read Hebrews 11 slowly, like someone walking down a hallway of portraits, and ask of each one: what was this person hoping for, and what could they not yet see? Then ask the same question about your own life, honestly, before God.

To reflect onFaith is solid ground beneath what is not yet seen. What are you hoping for from God today, without seeing it yet?

To live it today

  • Read Hebrews 11:1-16 softly and write down the name of the person in the text who most resembles the season you are living in.
  • Write in one sentence what you are hoping for from God and do not yet see, and put that sentence somewhere you can reread it during the week.
  • Choose a set time for these 21 days and protect that time like an appointment.

More questions

  • Do you tend to think of faith as a feeling or as trust that rests on someone? What difference does that make in your day?
  • Hebrews 11:13 says many died without receiving what was promised. How does that verse speak to your expectations?
  • In what area of your life have you been trying to see before you trust?

Prayer

Adoration

Faithful God, you are the same before and after every promise. You sustained Abel, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, and you are still the solid ground of everyone who waits on you. I worship you for who you are, even before I see what you will do.

Confession

I confess that I often put my security in what I can control. I want proof before I trust, and I grow weary when the waiting drags on. Forgive me for measuring your faithfulness by the size of my sight.

Thanksgiving

Thank you for the cloud of people who believed before me and whose story has reached me. Thank you that faith does not depend on my strength but on your word. Thank you for this beginning.

Supplication

Ground my faith in you during these 21 days. Give me steadiness to come back each morning and courage to wait without losing my way. Teach me to walk by faith, and not only by what I see.

To memorize

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 · World English Bible

Read also: Romans 8:24-25 · 2 Corinthians 5:7 · Hebrews 10:38-39 · Hebrews 11:13

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