Hebrews 11:2, 39  //  Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation...All these people earned a good reputation because of their faith, yet none of them received all that God had promised.


We want OUTCOMES but God is more concerned with our OUTLOOK

YOU control your outlook
GOD controls the outcome


Outcome faith:

Disappointment
Arrogance
Envy



James 1:2-4  //  Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. 3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.


Outlook faith:

Positivity
Humility
Contentment


HEARING the Word…not the world

Romans 10:17 (NKJV)  //  So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.


SPEAKING the Word…not my words

Joshua 1:8 (NIV)  //  Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.


DOING the Word…not my ways

James 2:17 (NLT)  //  So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.
Hebrews 11:40   //  For God had something better in mind for us, so that they would not reach perfection without us.