Friday, August 16, 2019

Living By Faith

Your life in Christ is living by faith. Your faith is trust in the living Christ. You have confidence that the Lord continues to work in you day by day.

The Spirit of Christ gives you the desire and ability to live by faith.  "Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His" (Romans 8:9). When you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of Christ lives in you.

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.

Christ works in you to strengthen your faith. It 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. He is "working in you what is well pleasing in His sight" (Hebrews 13:21).

The Holy Spirit uses the word of truth to build up your faith in Christ. You are living by faith, knowing hope for the future, and experiencing love day by day. It is "faith working through love" (Galatians 5:6). That's living by faith.