Here is my submission for the worship service, kindly watch the video below.
Love, faith and hope are interwoven, they can't do without one another. Love is the greatest. We should add patience as a virtue to our faith.
Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
We should follow Christ's step, He is an example to us. We should live our lives according to the standard of the word of God. Obeying God's word completely should be our priorities.
Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Live in faith, live by faith not by sight. Faith can't be separated from one's life. And for you to live in faith, you need patience and longsuffering as a virtue. How can you say you have faith without endurance and there is no good works without faith.
2 Peter 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2 Peter 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2 Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
A faith exercised in the gospel of Christ should be accompanied by patience and endurance. Faith should not be separated from works. Faith is not barren, it brings out fruits, it yield results.
James 2:22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.
Shalom.