What is Faith?
List by Ami Hendrickson
Faith is an unshakeable belief in something or someone. Some languages use the same word for both “faith” and “belief.” But the Bible goes even further. It uses a variety of words to describe what faith is and how it affects us. What word best describes my faith today?
Faith is an enlistment
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
Faith is my shield against temptation
Ephesians 6:16-18
Above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.
Faith is dynamite
Mark 11:22-23
Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.”
Faith is an investment
2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Faith is God’s gift
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.
Faith in Jesus is my salvation
Galatians 2:16
Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Faith is born of God
1 John 5:4
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
