Saturday, August 16, 2014

Faith Is a Gift

Living in Christ is living by faith. Your faith is trust in the living Christ. You have confidence that He continues to work in you day by day. The Spirit of Christ gives you the desire and will to come to Christ by faith.

Faith in Christ is a gift of the Holy Spirit working within you. What He begins to work in you, He continues day by day. The Spirit of Christ gives you faith now to trust Him in every situation of life. He gives you hope for the future. Most of all, the Spirit of Christ fills your life with love divine.

Christ works in you to strengthen your faith. Faith in Christ is rooted in the Word of God. As you read the Bible, and understand more and more about what the Lord is doing in your life, your faith becomes stronger. The Holy Spirit uses the Word of truth to build up your faith in Christ. Living in Christ is living by faith in Christ, knowing hope for the future, and experiencing love day by day.
"For by grace you have been saved through faith.
And this is not your own doing:
it is the gift of God" (Ephesians 2:8, ESV).

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,
continue to live in Him, rooted and built up in Him,
strengthened in the faith" (Colossians 2:6-7, NKJV).

"So now faith, hope, and love abide,
but the greatest of these is love"
(1 Corinthians 13:13, ESV).