Hope and Working Faith
FAITH
Faith is the confirmation of our hope, without faith our hope cannot be actualized being the proof of things we do not see and conviction of their reality.
Faith does perceive as real fact what is not revealed to the senses.
HOPE
Hope is confident expectation, the very desire our heart.
Hope and faith work hand-in-hand (i.e.in paripassu).
It is our faith that reveals what we hope for, without faith it will be impossible for what we are hoping for to come through since faith is the pillar upon which our hope stands
(Hebrew 11:1), Ephesians 2:8, Psalm 71:14
A. The Power of Hope: Romans 5:5; 8:24-25,Hebrew 6:18-19
B. Blessing of Hope: - Romans 4:18-19, Colossians 1:5, Lamentation #:24-26, Psalm 22:9-10, Psalm 31:24, Peter 1:13.
What is faith?
Faith is total reliance on God‘s unchanging word. Faith that saves is a personal trust in the lord Jesus Christ.
A. Why Faith is necessary?
Faith is very crucial to Christians because without faith you cannot please God. Hebrew 11:6. There can be no dealing with the invisible God without faith in his existence.
Faith is a crucial condition for salvation Acts 16:31, Ephesians 2:8.
B. What are the sources of faith?
The two sources of faith are –
(1) Driven faith and
(2) Human faith.
On the driven side faith is the work of trinity: Romans 12:3 Heb 12:22.
On the divine side, faith is the work of the trinity: Roman 12:3; Hebrew 12:22.
On the human side, faith comes by hearing of the word of God. Romans 10:17, Jude 1:20 prayers can increase our faith in God.
C. The Working faith:
The faith that works is that faith that is based on the word of God. Roman 4:19-21.
God is not a liar, when he promises, his word bind him. Number 23:19, Luke 21:33.
Your faith cannot work outside the promises of God; it must be based on the word for it to work. Hebrew 13:8, Matthew 17:28, James 1:6.
Faith is very necessary for total fulfillment in life and ministry; you cannot separate working faith from hope on the word of God.
Abba Elijah also known as elijagod (elija_god)
Check out my poems below
- Oh Mother ! (Peom)
Oh Mother ! A Poem that describes mother's love which is precious than silver or Gold. the value of mothers and how they can help in fashioning the world for the best . - A Step or a Push (Poem)
I discovered that for a man to succeed in this life there are two basic ingredient he needs, one of them is a STEP and the other is a PUSH. But sometime they both work together for our success. - The World I Can Never Comprehend | Poem
A poem i wrote about my discovery of how everything in this world seems to be conflicting and contradicting to each other. None should or must be discarded, because they are all as important and as useless as they can be. - A Journey To The Visible (Poem)
A poem i wrote on how man can call the invisible to the visible,cause we all come from the invisible and we now live in the visible. remember God own's the invisible and visible things. - Secrets of life (Poem)
A poem i wrote about my understanding of life, the body , the sprit and the soul of Man linked to passion,strength,action and how they all can bring about revealing the God in us. for we are not here for nothing but to fufill the reason for our creat - The Value of Joy(Poem)
A poem i wrote about Joy. It's values and the massive strength stored in it's belly that can cause men to process divine information and achieve the unthinkable inspiration, and unique ideas that is sent from heaven to man. - Get Out (Poem)
Being trapped in the ordeals of life which was intentionally/undesirably engaged could drain life from a person but if we can Get-out, The world will gladly share our story. - Nothing Can Change My Destiny (Song)
Every Failure or disappointment makes one feel useless,not needed or valueless, but the truth is that, failure can be one of man's greatness strength, cause without failure so many good and worth while invention would have not been created. i wrote t - The Rebirth of Man (Poem)
For man to explore his divine capabilities, he himself must be rebirth in totality.
