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“So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.” (Romans 10:17) 

Faith allows us to have trust in God’s faithfulness, producing a peace and sense of calm in the midst of challenges when we desperately need it. It resides at the core of Christianity and the Christian life. 

Unshakable faith involves abandoning all human reliance on self-efforts and placing total dependence upon God’s character, His actions, and His promises, as revealed in His Word. Hebrews 11:1 states that: “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.” Rather than looking at life with our earthly eyes, faith looks through the lens of God’s promises as we trust in His Word. 

The apostle Paul told us to, “Walk by faith and not sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7), meaning that faith stands secure on the rock-solid, trustworthy promises of God and His Word. 

Faith begins with God. It is His gift, not the result of any human effort or achievement. God initiates the relationship between Himself and humans by revealing Himself to them (Ecclesiastes 3:11; Romans 1:19–20) and lovingly persuading them to come to Him (Romans 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9; Isaiah 30:18), just as Jesus called the disciples to follow Him (Matthew 4:18–22). But then God expects us to respond to Him in faith because “It is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). 

Faith is, and always has been the only means of salvation. In the Old Testament, the covenantal bond was the believer’s expression of faith. God initiated the covenant, and believers responded in faith, actively obeying His Word and trusting in the Lord to fulfill His promises. In Genesis 15:6, Abraham “believed the Lord, and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.” 

In the New Testament, it is by faith that people receive God’s grace in Jesus Christ and, through Him, the gift of salvation (Ephesians 2:8–9). Paul states that “It is through faith that a righteous person has life” (Romans 1:17). 

Faith results in numerous blessings and benefits. At the top of the list are the gifts of salvation, justification, and peace with God (Romans 5:1–2; Galatians 2:15–16; 1 Peter 1:8–9). Jesus makes His home in our hearts through faith (Ephesians 3:17). We receive forgiveness of sin (Acts 10:43; Luke 7:48–50), adoption into God’s family (John 1:12; Galatians 3:26), God’s protection and power (1 Peter 1:5; Matthew 17:20; Luke 8:43–48), freedom to draw near to God with a clean conscience (Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 10:22), reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18), sanctification (Acts 26:17–18), and a new life in Jesus Christ (Galatians 2:20), all through faith. Moreover, we are granted victory over death and eternal life (John 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:40, 47; 11:25–27). 

A biblical concept of faith includes believing that God exists and that He is wholly trustworthy, so much so that we base our lives on Him and His Word, doing what it says and trusting, no matter what our physical eyes tell us. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we obtain “the victory that has overcome the world” (1 John 5:4–5). 

When we experience the storms of life, we should be like the tree that digs its roots ever more deeply for a greater grip in the earth. We must “dig our roots” more deeply into God’s Word and cling to His promises so we can weather whatever storms come against us. 

God is faithful no matter what, and faith allows us to have trust in that faithfulness, producing a peace and sense of calm in the midst of challenges that we desperately need. 

During time of hardship faith reminds us how dependent we are on the Lord. And as we allow ourselves to trust Him more deeply, we will increasingly find that with Him, we can endure anything. 

When we doubt, we can ask for more faith. When we are wavering in our resolve to follow, we can ask for more resolve. When we are unwilling to obey, we can ask to be made willing. An unbeliever has no interest in having more faith or being made willing to obey. The believer however, knows that his faith and obedience are always deficient, and he will frequently ask God to enable him to live the life that pleases God. If left to our own strength and our own faith, we would never make it so remember that when you are week you can always cry out: “I believe; help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). This is a statement of faith and an admission that our faith is far from perfect. 

We need to understand that unshakable faith is trusting God whole-heartedly without pause or worry. Therefore, when you find yourself getting frustrated or anxious, slow down and remember that God has it all under control. Satan will try to sneak in and get us rattled, but he quickly wears himself down since a strong believer has an unshakable bond with God that can’t be touched. 

Memorize the following verse when you are week in your faith and it will lift you up and give you strength: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit” (Jeremiah 17:7-8).    

Whatever your need might be, have the unshakable faith to know that: “The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent” (Exodus 14:14). “For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37). 

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