#7:.Faith
is knowing that 'God can do it':.Mark
11:22; Luke 1:37; Matthew
19:26; 1Peter 1:21. Faith is
believing
in Emmanuel the Christ in spite of negative circumstances affecting
you. Know you are sure in Christ and rest in this. God can do amazing things
with us and through us, but God never overrides us, that is, it's up to
us to deal with our mindsets, our attitudes:.Ephesians
3:20 "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us."
Key is to have more of this
power working in each of us, so ask for it.(Matthew
7:7):.Mark
9:24 "And straightway the father of the child cried out and said with
tears, Lord, I believe; help you mine unbelief."
#8:.Faith
can be increased. We should be fighting for it:.1Timothy
6:12; 2Corinthians 10:15;
13:5;
Jude
1:20; Matthew 6:30; 8:26;
8:10;
14:31;
Luke
17:5; 2Thessalonians 1:3.
Those passed on and those
still here can help a person increase in faith.if
you ask.them
in your quiet time:.Matthew
7:7.
Faith is something we keep.(by
thinking about that which generates it)..Revelation
14:12;.Romans
10:17 "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.".The
word 'hearing' implies continued hearing, not just hearing once and that's
enough, otherwise the importance of study time
would have been avoided in the Bible..Matthew
11:15 "He that has ears to hear let him hear.".Some
do not yet have ears to hear. If you do, then study!.Matthew
13:16 "But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they
hear." Matthew 13:9 "Who has ears
to hear let him hear.".And
how does one get 'ears to hear'?.2Chronicles
19:11 "...Deal courageously and the Lord shall be with the good."
#9:.Faith
is the evidence of the invisible:.Hebrews
11:1,3, 27. It can be seen in
others:.Matthew
9:2. Emmanuel saw faith; if He's in you, you will also see it in others.
#10:.Faith
keeps us going when all around us things are falling apart:.Revelation
13:10; 1Peter 5:9. It kept Emmanuel
going:.Hebrews
12:2. We are to have
the faith
of Emmanuel in us.
#11:.Faith
is needed to be an overcomer and gain a reward.(1John
5:4;2Timothy 4:7,8).and
purify our hearts:.Acts
15:9.
#12:.Faith
in God is knowing God loves you and that you are
never alone:.Hebrews
13:5. Many people don't know God loves them. That means, though
they may know about God and sort
of believe God is there, they are not sure that God loves them individually:.John
3:16,17; 1John 5:1.
It is a foundational Christian
concept upon which many other qualities of character can be added to:.2Peter
1:5.
Once established within one
by thinking on.(again,
Philemon
1:6; Titus 1:1).and
deciding upon as the basis for living, faith will
lead you on into the perfection in Christ:.Hebrews
6:1.
What
you think can lead you away from faith or can bring you into greater
awareness of God in you:.1Timothy
5:21.
#13:.With
faith, salvation.(the
gift of eternal life).is
assured:.1Peter
1:5,9.
#14:.Faith
makes one perfectly balanced in life:.Acts
3:16.
#15:.Faith
gives one strength:.Hebrews
11:11. If you lack strength, you lack faith.
#16:.Faith
can be made void:.Romans
4:14. One can lack in it:.1Thessalonians
3:10.
#17:.Faith
far supersedes
law keeping.(again,
as in the
Mosaic Law):.Galatians
3:24,25; Ephesians 6:16.(note
the words 'above all').
#18:.With
faith one can be made whole.(healed
of disease):.Matthew
9:22; Mark 5:34.
If one has 'missed the mark'.(the
original Greek for 'sin').by
not eating a diet and living a lifestyle to healthily sustain the physical
body, faith can make one well:.James
5:15.
#19:.We
should pray for others asking God to increase the faith they do have:.Luke
22:32.
#20:.Faith
is sometimes tried:.1Peter
1:7; James 1:3.
#21:-With faith one can do
the
good works necessary to help others:.James
2:18,26.(more
on James 2:26).
#22:.Faith
comes from being involved with others who are of like mind in Christ:.Philippians
1:27.
#23:.It
takes faith to understand spiritual things:.Hebrews
11:3. Faith in Christ secures for the believer freedom from condemnation.or.justification
before God.
24:.Faith
is a gift from the Creator.(Ephesians
2:8;
Philippians 1:29; John
3:27; Galatians
5:22;
Hebrews 2:4; Ephesians
4:7; 2Peter 1:4).enabling
the Holy Spirit to be in us, which moves us from one
of the main problems living in this world can bring.
Faith is not something that
is created of and by our efforts but, once we have it, faith can be increased
by what we learn and think about.(*).
It is a gift, as all spiritual things are:.Mark
10:15; Luke 8:15; 18:17.
We simply accept it as a child might accept a present: Galatians
3:14. It's the same
with righteousness.
#25:.We
each have been given a measure of faith. This can be increased as we bring
forth more of the Holy Spirit's power:.Romans
12:3,6; Philippians 1:9.(*);
Ephesians
2:8; 1Timothy 1:14. This takes
quiet
time alone with God.persuading
your heart as to your true standing with
God, prayer.(ask
for more for of God's Holy Spirit to come through others and yourself).and
study
time.
From.David
Guzik's Commentary:."Mark
11:22 Emmanuel answered and said to them."Have faith in God.",
which is taken to literally mean 'have God's faith', as if we are to have
the same faith God has.
Without faith one seldom
'gets most of it all together'. Things just keep taking twists, often making
circumstances harder to deal with: Faith becomes effective by acknowledging
the fact that you are righteous,
holy
and perfect in Christ:.Philemon
1:6; 1Thessalonians 2:13.
Acts
20:21:.Notice
here Paul says."faith toward".Christ.
To have faith toward something, one must use his mind in thinking about
what it is that he has within his own heart in this regard. What
is.'Christ'?
We become
alienated
from God by our minds, by what we think and what we fail to think about.
Likewise we come to know God better in this relationship with Him, by using
our minds in thinking of things pertaining to this relationship.
2Corinthians
13:5; 1Corinthians 15:14,17
tells us to take time to contemplate the fact of Emmanuel's
resurrection and the fact that because He is there living right now,
the faith that is in you by Him guarantees your salvation.
#26:.Faith
works by love.(Galatians
5:6).and
thus
it is important
to know
that you are loved by God.
#27:.One
builds faith by accepting what
God says about you.
