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GIFT OF FAITH

 

Greek Definition:

pistis meaning special miracle faith; wonder-working faith; unusual confidence in God with respect to His ability to supply beyond our won ability to Achieve; special capacity to accord God to do great thins through one’s life; see God’s will in advance; believing what God wants, announcing it will be so; turns vision into reality; knows when helpless situation is not hopeless; does the impossible; taking god at His word and acting on it; ability to see something that God wants done and to sustain unwavering confidence that God will do it regardless of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Scripture References:

1.          Matthew 17:20 “If ye have the faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”

2.          Mark 11:22 “Have faith in God.”

3.          Mark 11:24 “Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and he shall have them.”

4.          John 11:41-43 “Father, I thank Thee that Thou has heard me…Lazarus, Come forth!”

5.          Acts 3:16 “The faith, which is my Him.”

6.          Acts 6:8 “Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.”

7.          Acts 14:8-10 “Impotent man who never had walked…Paul perceived that he had faith to be healed...Stand up right on thy feet…And he leaped and walked.”

8.          Romans 12:3 “God hath dealt to every man a measure of faith.”

9.          I Corinthians 12:9 “To another faith by the same Spirit.”

10.      Romans 10:8 “The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thine heart; that is, the word of faith.”

11.      I Corinthians 13:2 “Though I have faith so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.”

12.      Galatians 2:20 “The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.”

13.      Ephesians 3:12 “In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him.”

14.      Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”

 

 
 

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