Steadfast Faith: Keep on Believing

While Jairus was still waiting for Jesus to come heal his daughter, word came that she had already died. “Why bother the teacher any further?” Jesus’s response is the heart of this message: “Do not be afraid; only believe.”

Faith gets tested exactly at the moment when circumstances seem to close the door on what you’re praying for. This message walks through Jairus’s story alongside the woman healed by touching Jesus’s robe after twelve years of bleeding, and lands on a simple charge: don’t let discouraging news, doubting bystanders, or how things look in the natural talk you out of what you already believe God for.

Key takeaways

• Bad news isn’t the final word — it’s often the exact moment faith is being tested.
• Distractions and doubters can affect your faith, so protect what you believe by guarding who and what you let speak into it.
• Walking by faith means calling things that aren’t yet visible as though they already are, the way Abraham did.