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Faith comes through God's Word and through praise. Faith grows as you praise the Lord.

Faith...involves trusting in the future promises of God and waiting for their fulfillment.

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

A Methodist (Christian) is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul, which is continually crying, 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth whom I desire besides thee.' My God and my all! 'Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.' He is therefore happy in God; yea, always happy, as having in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life, and over-flowing his soul with peace and joy. Perfect love living now cast out fear, he rejoices evermore. Yea, his joy is full, and all his bones cry out, 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten me again unto a living hope of an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, reserved in heaven for me.

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

When a truth is unfolded by God it most naturally becomes a power in man, who then finds himself able to believe.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

Faith, which is trust, and fear are opposite poles. If a man has the one, he can scarcely have the other in vigorous operation. He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

Faith looks not at what happens to him but at Him Whom he believes.

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie. It is enough that God has said it.

Faith, without trouble or fighting, is a suspicious faith; for true faith is a fighting, wrestling faith.

"The Lord is my shepherd," is on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year; is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and, is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.

I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require.

Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

God's thoughts, his will, his love, his judgments are all man's home. To think his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his loves, to judge his judgments, and thus to know that he is in us, is to be at home.

Because of the favor of God, we can have peace in the midst of chaos.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog-the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.

Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

In all true faith there is complete committal to God.

Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.

A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.

No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of.

Our rest lies in looking to the Lord, not to ourselves.

Baptism is faith in action.

Our responsibility is simply to make our witness faithful; it is God's responsibility alone to make it effective.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

A faith without some doubts is like a human body with no antibodies in it. People who blithely go through life too busy or indifferent to ask the hard questions about why they believe as they do will find themselves defenseless against either the experience of tragedy or the probing questions of a smart skeptic. A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

A testimony is something that serves as evidence.

Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.

To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Like the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the miraculous birth of our Savior, the truth of election must be received with simple, unquestioning faith.

Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

This strife increases as the days go by. If the believers will proceed faithfully without giving in to despair, they will incur fiercer conflict until such time as they are delivered.

Never try to arouse faith from within. You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ.

If God gave us the strength in the past, He will supply what we need for future challenges.

An active faith can give thanks for a promise, though it be not as yet performed; knowing that God's bonds are as good as ready money.

Faith has nothing to do with feelings or with impressions, with improbabilities or with outward experiences. If we desire to couple such things with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God, because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word, the heart is at peace.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

When you seek God first in your daily pursuits, He promises to add unto you those things which you were pursuing (as long as they are in His will). Placing Him first in your life should be your daily goal, the main pursuit in the midst of all your other pursuits.

Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

Unless we are firmly anchored in the Rock of Ages, unless we trust in the living God, unless we are vigilant in prayer and fellowship with God, the enemy will be able to vanquish our children.

Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

There is no faithfulness like that which ought to be between a guide of souls and the person directed by him. They ought continually to regard each other in God, and closely to examine themselves, whether all their thoughts are pure, and all their words directed with Christian discretion. Other affairs are only the things of men; but these are peculiarly the things of God.

If the Christian faith gets too identified with a party, it reduces Christianity to a political position

There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keeping God - to know that we have no care, for He cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear Him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and are conscience that He will sustain us.

God is faithful even when his children are not.

Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Faith does not grasp a doctrine, but a heart. The trust which Christ requires is the bond that unites souls with Him; and the very life of it is entire committal of myself to Him in all my relations and for all my needs, and absolute utter confidence in Him as all sufficient for everything that I can require.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Many confuse understanding with believing.

God delights to increase the faith of His children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God's hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company."

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

Faith need not be 'big' but it must be 'real.'

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terrors the shining of one perhaps pale, quivering, distant, but divinely given hope, "My Savior! My Savior! He is righteous; He has died; He lives! I will stay no longer; I will cast myself upon Him!

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

A faith which works not for purification will work for putrefaction. Unless our faith makes us pine after holiness, it is no better than the faith of devils, and perhaps it is not even so good as that. A holy man is the workmanship of the Holy Spirit.

Faith is asking. Faith is believing. Faith is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and material good.

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

The faith that relentlessly asks God, also pleases God. Now, as the fullness of the times unfolds, as the world around us clothes itself in prophetic fulfillments, let us put away fear and repent of withdrawal.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”

but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.

For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!

I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second,

Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.

For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.

to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

“Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.

“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD.”

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,

You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD.”

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.

but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”

The son of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing;

Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,

By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.

When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”

who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

that the LORD may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.

“Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,

For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.

for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.

And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.

For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,

And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.

Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”

who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.

the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—

If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.

Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.

“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD.

“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.