{"id":480,"date":"2007-11-07T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T15:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=480"},"modified":"2016-06-17T21:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T04:51:13","slug":"why-should-i-want-more-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2007\/why-should-i-want-more-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should I Want More Faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Luke 17:1-19<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I know I have done this (although not very often):<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith&#8221;<\/em> (5).<\/p>\n<p>But why should I want increased faith?<\/p>\n<p>To move trees (or mountains)? No, not really. To heal sick people? Well, that would be beyond wonderful, but no. Then why ask for more and stronger faith?<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a better, more pleasing, more faithful servant.<\/p>\n<p>Without faith, there is no way to please God (Hebrews 11:6).<\/p>\n<p>Without faith, there is no way to live faithfully. And since <b><font color=\"brown\">&#8220;the just shall live by his faith&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (Habakkuk 2:4), <b>I want more faith so I can do more living, justly!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I must remember to ask for (and truly want) more faith. Daily.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, increase my faith.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/thenine-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/thenine-s.jpg\" alt=\"[But where are the nine? (Luke 17:17)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Luke 17:17<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Luke 17:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8223\"><font color=green>Get on With Living<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Luke 17:1-19 I know I have done this (although not very often): &#8220;And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith&#8221; (5). But why should I want increased faith? To move trees (or mountains)? No, not really. To heal sick people? Well, that would be beyond wonderful, but no. Then why ask for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-luke","7":"tag-faith","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry","10":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-7K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}