{"id":74638,"date":"2022-10-05T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=74638"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:15:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:15:59","slug":"give-me-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=74638","title":{"rendered":"Give Me Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u201cWhat do you mean, \u2018If I can?&#8217;\u201d Jesus asked. \u201cAnything is possible if a person believes.\u201d The father instantly cried out, \u201cI do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!\u201d Mark 9:23-24 (New Living Translation)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to please God without faith. Yet, it is He who gives it to us. Our journey through life is made up of our choices. Our will or God\u2019s will, selfishness or selflessness, ambition or surrender. The measure of your faith is seen through the choices you made in life.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the song \u201cGive Me Faith\u201d to praise God for things He has shown me that truly glorify Him and as a prayer knowing I only have faith when I surrender to His sovereignty over my life. <i>(Psalms 8)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBecause of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don\u2019t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.\u201d (Romans 12:3 New Living Translation)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_32791\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zs4XWCJtkwk?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do you mean, \u2018If I can?&#8217;\u201d Jesus asked. \u201cAnything is possible if a person believes.\u201d The father instantly cried out, \u201cI do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!\u201d Mark 9:23-24 (New Living Translation) It is impossible to please God without faith. Yet, it is He who gives it to us. Our journey through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-jpQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74686,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions\/74686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}