Emphasis Preaching Journal

People are literally "saved by faith." Dr. Martin Nemiroff, a Coast Guard flight surgeon who has participated in more than a thousand rescues of stranded people, says, "Of all the possible factors which help a person survive a disaster, we cannot measure the most important, the will to live." Janet Culver, adrift in the ocean in a tiny rubber dinghy, stayed alive through driving rain and 16-foot waves. She was rescued by hanging on to the hope that if she survived one more day she would have another chance to be saved.