Faith serves as the bedrock of a relationship with God, providing the foundation for trust, hope, and a deeper connection. It’s the lens through which one perceives God’s presence and the path to experiencing His love and guidance. Through faith, believers receive God’s grace, experience transformation, and are empowered to live a life that reflects His love. 
Great! Now what is faith and why no mention of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit?
Faith and Christ’s resurrection
Romans 4:24–25 — “It will be counted to us who believe in Him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.”
Romans 10:9–10 — “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.”
1 Corinthians 15:14, 17 — “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is empty and your faith is empty… if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.”
Faith and the Holy Spirit
Galatians 3:2–3 — “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?”
Galatians 3:14 — “…so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.”
Ephesians 1:13 — “In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.”
Faith linking Christ, the Spirit, and resurrection
Romans 8:10–11 — “If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” (Here faith in Christ brings the Spirit’s indwelling, and the same Spirit ensures bodily resurrection)
2 Corinthians 4:13–14 — “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, ‘I believed, and so I spoke,’ we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into His presence.”
Philippians 3:10–11 — “That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.”
Not being facetious.
J.
@Dlove782, I like where you’re going… faith does give us that trust, hope, and deeper connection with God. That’s absolutely part of it. The beautiful thing is that faith is more than just the way we feel close to Him… it’s actually the way we first come into relationship with Him at all. Hebrews 11:6 says “without faith it is impossible to please God,” and Romans 5:1 tells us we are justified, made right with Him, through faith.
So while faith does help us walk daily in love and obedience, it also begins as the God-given trust that clings to what Christ did for us on the cross. That’s where the connection is born. From there, the trust you described grows, and the life changes you mentioned flow naturally.
You’ve opened a great conversation here… keep going. The more we understand what faith really is, the more we’ll treasure both the relationship and the One who made it possible.
Stay grounded. Stay sharp. Stay in the Word.
Faith_ moving in what we say we believe
I can only say that when I operate in faith I prove to myself that I believe.
Faith is confident and assurance
It’s like when 2 things aline harmoniously. The reflection of who I have chosen to become.
Operating in faith shows my trust, that God is in controll.
That means I can come to Him without a guilty conscious. I can pray knowing He hears me. I can know He will be there when I need Him to do what I can’t. It means I can know His perfect will is being done.
It mean I can wait on His promises with assurance.
It means that in my waiting I can shout before it comes..my joy being fullfilled. It means He is my peace and my life.
Great response.
I’ve been reading this book:: LOVE YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR MIND. By J P Moreland.
He sets a foundation that our faith is all about trust, hope, loving God, obedience, etc but that we don’t seem to include our mind. Those that are intellectual in nature are better at explaining trust, faith …. My interpretation from his book.
So I was assessing my faith in relation to my mind.
These things came to mind:: Intellectually know beliefs, Knowledge, Apologetics, Reasoning/logic, Answering skeptics (or anyone) rationally, values clarification …. He goes into these subjects.
I am not an intellectual; it’s difficult for me to think through why I believe what I believe without mentioning faith. I get very frustrated and flustered when someone of the faith or not of the faith wants to argue specifics of the faith. I am not a Josh McDowell or Lee Strobel
I know I am not alone. I went to a Bible college that taught apologetics and practical ways to know what we believe, but since I was not a theology major, far from it, I only got a taste of how to defend my faith.
The only way I have learned and grown in Jesus is the study my Bible, not hap hazardly but semi systematically, the way I know I can understand and learn.
I was in a small group study once that taught about specific spiritual disciplines ( many of which the author describes). That is where I learned how to pray the Scriptures (lectino divino) into my life.
I remember having to take a course that was about lifestyles. It basically taught the opposite of what Scripture teaches about relationships between men and women. The lectures, each and every one went against my values, morality and faith. The instructor devastated nay sayers with other opinions and perspectives. I never felt I could respond well intellectually with answers/responses with my faith.
I guess what I am trying to say is, there are many of us that have difficulty explaining our faith intellectually because we practice a simple type of trust and belief in God and Scripture. We should not be subjected to judgement or bullying by other Believers that intellectualize everything. There is a place for us in the Kingdom of God.
I’m working with a Pastor, in Zimbabwe) to use The Wordless Book in evangelizing youngsters to age 12. The truths are radicalizing for youngsters but as they grow into teenagers and young adults they need the meat of the word. We yearn to read a specific age. There are others who will teach older kids to intelligently question their faith and find answers
The book is excellent and I will re-read it.
This sounds good, I am a visual learner @Dogmum
J.
I totally agree. Good Job!
