Therefore, the doctrine teaches that once we accept Jesus as our Savior, we need to have faith that rests on God. The only way I know to acquire this type of faith is to read the Word of God and also hear it taught by anointed and chosen vessels of God.
Faith is a foundation, or fundamental principle, without which it is impossible to please God; and without which we cannot be saved.
By repentance, we feel the need of God’s mercy; by faith we find that mercy.
In the Levitical law; the painful observances and awful denunciations of divine wrath against every breath of the Law, was well calculated to produce repentance and make it grievous and bitter thing to sin against God.
As to faith in God that was essentially necessary; in order to see the end of the commandment; for without faith in him who was to come all that repentance was unavailable; and all the ritual observance without profit.
Thus, having faith towards God
What is faith?
Faith means to believe and have assurance of something. To believe means to have trust. The words “faith, believe, and trust” all mean the same thing when we use them in relation to God. The Bible defines faith as: Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). For this reason, the Bible declares that we must walk or live by faith (Heb. 10:38; Rom. 1:17;). Once we are Christians, we receive all things from God by using our faith.
Faith is a Revelation, because it is something that is revealed to you… Faith is the Revelation of God… The Church, the entire Body is built upon a Revelation.
It is the Revelation of God that will give you authority over the devil… There is nothing of such prevailing power as the revelation of the Word. It takes the Holy Ghost to give us Revelation or we fail to get it
“Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” (Romans 3:2-3)
Apostle Paul, is emphasizing the great privilege and responsibility that was committed to the Jews when God gave His “oracles” to them, a word implying “divinely inspired utterances.”
Hebrew Christians who had still not learned the very “first principles of the oracles of God,” despite having been professing Christians for a long time ( Hebrews 5:12).
So it is with us gentiles who were wild Olive branch grated into the true Vine partaking of the same nourishment from the vine. We also need to go unto perfection. But if we do not grasp the first principles how do we perfect ourselves?
Finally, the apostle Peter urged “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God”( Peter 4:11). That is, anyone who presumes to speak for the Lord must “preach the word” (2 Timothy 4:2). It is not our words, but His words that are “quick, and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12). In fact, Stephen called them “the lively |or ‘living’| oracles” (Acts 7:38).
In all these references, it is clear that these “oracles of God”…. that is, the Holy Scriptures…..constitute the very utterances of the living God. They were given to and through believing Jews and are preserved for us now in our Bibles. They obviously should be believed, studied, obeyed, and proclaimed by all who consider themselves to be Christians.
The fact that many people reject the Bible, even claiming it is wrong in what it teaches, is irrelevant. Such claims merely display human arrogance. God’s Word has been “for ever . . . settled in heaven” and “is true from the beginning” (Psalm 119:89, 160). It will endure even after this present world has passed away (Mathew 24:35) and will finally be the criterion by which its detractors will be judged in the last day (Rev 20:12, 22:18-19).
Faith is a condition of the heart producing belief in God: For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.(Romans 10:10) It is not enough to accept the Gospel with the mind. This is not true Scriptural faith and does not produce change in your life. True Scriptural faith, believing with the heart, always produces change in your life. The result is something experienced in the present, not something hoped for in the future.
In conclusion, James states:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraided not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth, is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.( James 1: 5 – 7 )
Shalom and God bless!
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 