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    How to Strengthen Your Faith
    How to Strengthen Your Faith
    How to Strengthen Your Faith
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    How to Strengthen Your Faith

    By Stan Toler

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    Is it possible to master your personal, professional, and spiritual lives?

    Yes!

    You can live with purpose, effectiveness, and significance. That's TQL--Total Quality Life--and that life can be yours.

    The TQL Bible Study series is a set of four studies based on the four critical life spheres covered in Stan Toler's Total Quality Life: thought, health, finances, and faith. These Bible studies will help you dig deep into Scripture passages related to the four major themes, with a focus on applying the Scripture for life transformation.

    Each Bible study contains six weeks of daily studies, each including a devotional reading, questions for reflection, a prayer, and action steps for moving closer to a Total Quality Life.

    Your TQL Starts Now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDust Jacket Press
    Release dateJul 2, 2015
    ISBN9781943140787
    How to Strengthen Your Faith
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    Stan Toler

    Stan Toler has spoken in over 90 countries and written over 100 books with sales of more than 3 million copies. Toler for many years served as vice president and instructor for INJOY, John C. Maxwell’s institute for training leaders to make a difference in the world.

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      How to Strengthen Your Faith - Stan Toler

      Copyright © (2011) 2015 by Stan Toler

      Published by DustJacket Press

      Oklahoma City, OK 73172

      ISBN: 9781943140787

      All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®. NIV ®. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (NKJV) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Writer: Stan Toler with Kevin Riggs

      This Bible study is a companion book to Stan Toler’s Total Quality Life: Strategies for Purposeful Living

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Electronically published by DustJacket Press at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Cover page

      Title page

      Copyrights

      Week 1. Praise

      Week 2. Prayer

      Week 3. Thanksgiving

      Week 4. Meditation

      Week 5. Fellowship

      Week 6. Ministry

      Week 1

      PRAISE

      RECOMMENDED READING

      Total Quality Life, chapter 2, pages 19-26; chapter 6, pages 83-85

      Christian thinkers from Augustine to Pascal have described an emptiness that is found in every human being which can only be fulfilled in relationship to our Creator. You can guard your thought life, improve your health, and watch over your finances, but if you don’t place your faith in God and grow in your faith, then all the rest will matter little. Jesus said, What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8:36–37).

      The apostle Paul put it this way, For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come (1 Tim. 4:8). While every aspect of total quality life—thoughts, health, finances, faith—is important, none is more important than faith. The apostle Peter wrote, But grow in the grace and knowledge or our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3:18).What are some things you can do to grow in your faith? Over the next few weeks, you will learn six ways to increase your faith by focusing on praise, prayer, thanksgiving, meditation, fellowship, and ministry.

      Let’s get started with growing in your faith by cultivating a life of praise.

      DAY 1

      PSALM 150:1–6

      If someone asks you to look for something blue, what happens? The color blue suddenly seems to pop out everywhere. Then, if the person asks you to look for things that are red, the blue gets lost and the red starts to jump out. Is this a trick to make you see things that are not there? Not at all. The colors are always there, even if you don’t notice them.

      Likewise, God is all around you. He can be seen in the everyday activities and interactions of an otherwise mundane routine. The question is not whether God is there; it’s whether you’re going to take time to focus on him

      Praise is the theme of Psalm 150. Thirteen times the writer tells us to praise God. The Hebrew word translated praise is halal, from where we get our English word hallelujah. The word halal means to make clear, to make a show, to boast, to rave, to celebrate. You and I are to make a really big deal about God! Not only are we to praise God at church (in his sanctuary, v. 1), but we are also to praise him in creation and because of his power and greatness (vv. 1–2). We are to praise him with instruments, dancing, and resounding cymbals (vv. 3–5). Our songs of praise should be exciting and moving, not dead and somber. Through our praise, we proclaim who God is and what he has done. Our praise involves every aspect of our lives. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD (v. 6).

      Begin focusing on God and praising him and you will see him everywhere and at work in everything, which will make you praise him even more. Are you living a life of praise?

      QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION

      1. How would you define praise?

      2. What do you think is the difference between praise and thanksgiving? Is there a difference?

      3. Can you make a list of ten things for which God is to be praised? (Hint: The ten things should be all about God, not about what God has done for you.)

      PRAYER FOR TODAY

      Praise the Lord! O great God of heaven and earth, I

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