Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith

Author: Emery Horvath: Bible Teaching and Commentary Author
Published: Tue 17 Jun 2025
Episode Link: https://www.emeryhorvath.com/s12-023-why-it-pays-to-live-an-intense-life-of-faith-podcast/

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Three

Would it be fair in your thinking to acknowledge that Jesus followers should be intense people of faith? We focus quite a bit on faith and that’s good and right – the Bible mentions faith and it’s synonyms over 500x. But, what about the adjective intense to describe our faith? Not just faith but intense faith. Would that adjective describe you? Oswald Chambers was a Scottish Baptist minister who wrote an extremely well-known devotional called ‘My Utmost for His Highest.’ On the subject of sanctification, he wrote the following. Chambers said, ‘sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view. It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God’s purpose only. Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for? And then after His work is done in us, are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did? “For their sakes I sanctify Myself.”’¹ I like that. Sanctification is an intense concentration on God’s point of view. What about faith? Shouldn’t the life of faith have an intense concentration on trusting God? Does that thought register in your thinking? Well, that’s what we are going to focus on in this podcast: Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith — all on this week’s Light on Life.