Faith discussed - Abraham's example. - The Wisdom

How many of us of us have strong faith yet, at times, we've felt it weakened.
Probably all of us at one time or another well let's look at Mark chapter 9 and we'll start at verse 16 and listen to how Jesus addressed a weakened a weakness in faith.

Mark 9:16 And he asked them: “What are YOU disputing with them?”
17 And one of the crowd answered him: “Teacher, I brought my son to you because he has a speechless spirit
18 and wherever it seizes him it dashes him to the ground, and he foams and grinds his teeth and loses his strength. And I told your disciples to expel it, but they were not capable.”
19 In response he said to them: “O faithless generation, how long must I continue with YOU? How long must I put up with YOU? Bring him to me.”
20 So they brought him to him. But at the sight of him the spirit at once threw [the child] into convulsions, and after falling on the ground he kept rolling about, foaming.
21 And he asked his father: “How long has this been happening to him?” He said: “From childhood on 22 and time and again it would throw him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.”
23 Jesus said to him: “That expression, ‘If you can’! Why, all things can be to one if one has faith.”
24 Immediately crying out, the father of the young child was saying: “I have faith! Help me out where I need faith!”
25 Jesus, now noticing that a crowd was running together upon [them], rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it: “You speechless and deaf spirit, I order you, get out of him and enter into him no more.”
26 And after crying out and going through many convulsions it got out+ and he became as dead, so that the greater number of them were saying: “He is dead!”
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him up, and he rose.

Two Discourses on Faith below:
1st on the symbolic Olive Tree wht it represents our Faith,
2nd on The outstanding example of Abraham's Faith discussed.

Hebrews 11:17-19 11, "By faith Abraham, when he was tested, as good as offered up Isaac, and the man that had gladly received the promises attempted to offer up [his] only-begotten [son],

18 although it had been said to him: “What will be called ‘your seed’ will be through Isaac.
19 But he reckoned that God was able to raise him up even from the dead and from there he did receive him also in an illustrative way".

James 2:23 20 "But do you care to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is inactive?
21 Was not Abraham our father+ declared righteous by works after he had offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 You behold that [his] faith worked along with his works and by [his] works [his] faith was perfected,
23 and the scripture was fulfilled which says: “Abraham put faith in Jehovah, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he came to be called “Jehovah’s friend”.

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