My big breakthrough in my understanding came when I suddenly saw that the King James Version of the Bible reads, "I live by the faith of the Son of God, rather than, "I live by my faith in the Son of God," All along I had the impression that my spiritual success was related to my faith in Christ (which always seemed to be faltering!). Now I could relax.
"I
live by the faith of the Son of God, rather than, "I live by my faith IN
the Son of God." An important distinction that many translations don't
catch.
As
Andrew Wommack puts it in one of his commentaries: "We were so spiritually bankrupt
that we had to believe for salvation with our own faith. We didn’t know to acknowledge God's supernatural faith (Eph
2:8) that came to us as a gift through hearing God's Word (Ro 10:17). Faith comes by hearing and understanding the
word of God.
There
is a human faith that is limited to believing only what we can perceive through
our five senses, but the supernatural, God-kind of faith goes beyond what we
can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel. God's kind of faith calls those things
that be not as though they already.
God
gave you faith at salvation (the faith in your spirit) and that faith is
supposed to grow through all of our life circumstances in your soulish realm.
All
we need to do is to go forward in His faith, and we shall find that what is
true in the realm of the Spirit becomes manifest, through our faith, in the
realm of the senses. (soul)
These verses explain the faith and our faith.
Php
3:8 But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have
suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win
Christ
Php 3:9 and be found in Him; not
having my own righteousness which is of the
Law, but through the faith Christ, ( the faith of God) the righteousness of
God by faith, ( my faith in the soulish realm) that I may know Him and
the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made
conformable to His death.
He is the author and the finisher of our faith. Heb
12:2 looking to Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith,
who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and sat down at the right of the throne of God.
The Faith of God Scriptures
(Mar 11:22) And answering Jesus said to them, Have the faith of God.
(Act 3:16) And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, this one whom you see and know, His name made firm. And the faith which came through Him has given him this perfect soundness before you.
(Act 6:7) And the Word of God was increasing. And the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was multiplying exceedingly; even a great crowd of the priests obeyed the faith.
(Act 13:8) But Elymas the conjurer (for so his name is, if translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.
(Act 14:22) confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.
(Act 16:5) Then indeed the churches were established in the faith and increased in number daily.
(Act 24:24) Then after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
(Rom 1:5) by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;
(Rom 3:3) For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?
(Rom 4:11) And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith while still uncircumcised; so that he might be the father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be imputed to them also;
(1Co 16:13) Watch! Stand fast in the faith! Be men! Be strong!
(2Co 13:5) examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?
(Gal 1:23) But only they were hearing that he who then persecuted us, now preaches the faith which he once ravaged.
(Gal 2:16) knowing that a man is not justified by works of the Law, but through faith in Jesus Christ; even we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith in Christ, and not by works of the Law. For all flesh will not be justified by works of law.
(Gal 2:20) I have been crucified with Christ, and I live; yet no longer I, but Christ lives in me. And that life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself on my behalf.
(Gal 3:23) But before faith came, we were kept under Law, having been shut up to the faith about to be revealed.
(Eph 3:12) in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through His faith.
(Eph 4:13) And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
(Php 1:27) Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,
(Php 3:9) and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,
(Col 1:23) if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,
(Col 2:7) rooted and built up in Him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
(Col 2:12) buried with Him in baptism, in whom also you were raised through the faith of the working of God, raising Him from the dead.
(1Ti 1:2) to Timothy, my own son in the faith. Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
(1Ti 3:9) having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
(1Ti 3:13) For they having served well gain a good grade for themselves, and much boldness in the faith, those in Christ Jesus.
(1Ti 4:1) But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
(1Ti 5:8) But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.
(1Ti 6:10) For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
(1Ti 6:21) which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
(2Ti 2:13) If we do not believe Him, yet He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
(2Ti 2:18) who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and who overthrow the faith of some.
(2Ti 3:8) But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
(2Ti 4:7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
(Tit 1:1) Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness
(Tit 1:13) This witness is true; for which cause convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
(Tit 3:15) All those with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. May grace be with you all. Amen.
(1Pe 5:9) whom firmly resist in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions in the world are being completed in your brotherhood.
(Jude 1:3) Having made all haste to write to you about the common salvation, beloved, I had need to write to you to exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
(Rev 13:10) He who leads into captivity will go into captivity. If anyone will kill with the sword, he must be killed by a sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
(Rev 14:12) Here is the patience of the saints. Here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
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