5 Things God Uses to Grow Your Faith — 2.10.19 Sermon

Big faith is what astonishes Jesus, and growing it often means stepping into a ministry that feels beyond reach. Working through Matthew 14, this message sits with the disciples' panic when Jesus, mourning John the Baptist's death, hands them an impossible task: you give them something to eat . The core idea is a kind of spiritual tug-of-war. God places people and tasks on our hearts, and the call is not to wait until we feel equipped but to bring what little we have. The disciples did what they knew how to do and trusted Jesus to do what only he could. Peter steps out of the boat on the same logic. The application lands close to home: every believer is called to a personal ministry, not just paid clergy. Stories of missionaries and the church's own founding illustrate that the leap rarely makes sense in the moment, yet God fills the gap we cannot.