We Have to Use Faith to be Believing in God (TMF:440)

Friday, July 01, 2016
Peace to Live By: We Have to Use Faith to be Believing in God (TMF:440) - Daniel Litton
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       Let's consider some Bible verses to supplement our foundational verse here. The Apostle Paul prayed that God “according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” (Ephesians 3:16, 17, ESV). We have to have faith in order to believe in God, and then subsequently to love him. All of us in this life have faith in something, no matter what we believe. If we believe in God, we have faith in God that he has saved us from his wrath and that we will live with him someday in Heaven. If a person has faith in something else—like that the world came about through natural processes alone—they have ‘faith’ that they are right and that there is nothing after this life. Of course, we as Christians believe that's not true. But everyone has faith in something, whether they know it or not. We use faith all the time. When a person gets into a car, for instance, the person has faith that he or she will make it a determined destination.