Paul said that: "faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen" (Hbr 11:1).
Do you want to please God?
"Without faith it is impossible to please Him."
Do you want to experience God's saving grace?
"For by grace are ye saved through faith"
Do you want to receive God's salvation?
"Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls."
Do you want to be an overcomer?
"And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
Thomas Watson wrote, "Love is the crowning grace in heaven, but faith is the conquering grace on earth."
faith is the channel by which impotent man is enabled to lay hold of the omnipotent God.
The following are interesting paraphrases defining faith:
faith is taking God at His word - not simply responding to external signs and miracles.

faith is not believing that God can; it is knowing that He will.

faith is deaf to doubt, dumb to discouragement, blind to impossibilities and knows nothing but success in God.

Walking by faith means being prepared to trust where we are not permitted to see.

faith is a plant that can grow in the shade, a grace that can find the way to heaven in a dark night.

faith allows Christ to do for us and with us what we could never do alone.

"Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep."

"faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it."

"faith is reason at rest in God."

"faith is the grip which connects us with the moving energy of God."

"faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see."

"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 does not come from reason is to be doubted, and the reason that does not lead to faith is to be feared."

"The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust Him: the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith."

"The property of faith is not to be proud of what the eye sees but to rely on what the word reveals."
Understanding the doctrine of faith is to realize that...
faith is:
A gift sovereignly bestowed;
The principle for daily triumphant living;
Belief in Action;
Is always under assault;
Is that which substantiates the future.
True faith is not a work but is founded, not upon feelings, aspirations, or good intentions, but on the promises of God. Faith has as it's object God's Word - and God's Word alone.

Taken from: Zion's Fire Sept. 2000 pp. 4-9
An article written by: Marvin Rosenthal
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