[SMCFI] My Personal Response to God

1. Youth Servant Leadership
& Education Program
(YSLEP)
SIMBAYANAN NI
MARIA COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION, INC.

2. SMCFI-YSELP 2015
MY PERSONAL
RESPONSE TO GOD

3. During, student the session should
be able to:
Define faith as personal response
to God
Cite examples that manifests faith
Express how one deepest his/her
faith to God.

5. *
Look for a partner, decide who
will be blindfolded and who
will act as the guide.
The guide will help the one
who is blindfolded to go
around the area until they end
up at the designated
STOPPING area.

6. *
*How did you feel while you blinded?
*What makes it easy to trust your guide?
*How did you feel as the guide? Did you find
it difficult to guide your partner? Why not?
*How did the activity relate to this bible
passage: 2 Corinthians 5:7 “For we live by
faith, not by sight.”

7. FAITH
Hebrew Words
PISTIS
Faith (Noun)
PISTEUO
Believe (Verb)

8. FAITH
*FAITH (PISTIS )means faith, belief,
firm persuasion, assurance, firm
conviction, faithfulness.
*BELIEVE (PISTUEO) means to trust in
and rely upon, commit to charge
of, confide in, have mental
persuasion.

9. *It is the act whereby a person lays hold
to God’s resources, becomes obedient
to what He has prescribed and putting
aside all self-interest and self-reliance,
trusts Him completely. It is an unqualified
surrender of the whole of one’s being in
dependence upon Him.

10. Faith is our positive response to
the call of Jesus. It is a personal
acceptance of the person of
Christ as Lord and Savior...
-PCP II 64

11. Faith is the total surrender of
oneself to God who is trusted
completely.
-NCDP 142

12. Faith depend upon God for
two things: First, God’s free gift
of revealing Himself throughout
salvation history; second, for
the grace of Holy Spirit’s interior
illumination and inspiration...
-CFC 149

13. Every faith is a gift of God, it
demands our free cooperation.
-PCP II 68

14. FAITH
Believing
Doing
Trusting

15. *
*How can we respond to God’s call?
*How do we live by our faith?
*How does the Holy Spirit help us to
respond to God’s call?
*In what ways can we deepen our
faith to God?

16. *
A B
1. _ Mary a. Offered Isaac to the
mountain
2._ Moses b. Was saved when he has
been cast out in the lion’s
den
3._ Abraham c. After giving birth to her
son, her skeptical laughter
change to a laughter of
pure joy
4._ Rahab d. Obeyed God and set
the Israelites free from
slavery of the Egyptians
5._ Sarab e. Responded to
conceived the Son of God

17. *
*Direction: Think of one person whom
you look up to as an example of a
faithful servant of God. Write him/her
a letter affirming what you like about
his/her attitude towards God’s call.