A Question of Faith

Here are the first 25 things (not in order) that I found that the New Testament says about faith.  How many would you say describe your faith?


1.      By faith we are saved. 

2.      By faith we are justified. 

3.      By faith we receive the propitiation of Christ’s blood. 

4.      By faith we are counted righteous.

5.      By faith we have obtained access to God’s grace.

6.      By faith we received the Holy Spirit.

7.      Faith leads to obedience.

8.      Faith pursues the law of God.

9.      By faith we uphold the law of God. 

10.  Faith encourages.

11.  Faith examines itself.

12.  It is by faith that we receive the promises of God, in fact, His promises depend on faith. 

13.  With faith, all things are possible. 

14.  Those things that we pray for, whatever it is, if we ask in faith, we will receive them.

15.  With the faith as small as a mustard seed you can tell the mountains to move from one place to another and they will obey.

16.  Faith is not anxious for anything. 

17.  Faith is not afraid of what the world can do to us. 

18.  Faith heals us. 

19.  Faith is what we live by.

20.  By faith we persevere in our salvation.

21.  By faith we exercise the gifts of the Spirit.

22.  Faith does not rely on worldly wisdom.

23.  But faith relies on the power of God.

24.  By faith we stand firm in what we believe.

25.  We walk by faith and not by sight.

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