We often fail to realize the importance of faith in our lives. How it guides us, shields us, and teachers us what we need to know and understand in our lives. Faith in God and faith in Jesus Christ benefits us in ways we cannot always comprehend. But as faithful believers, we can always take the time to reflect on our faith, how it guides and helps us. It is also important to share our faith with others. One of the last commands Christ gave to His disciples, was to share and spread the Christian faith all over the world.
Author Eloise Collins is sharing her faith in Jesus and God, in a beautiful memoir, The Faithfull Journey 978-1-950088-15-7. Collins writes about the struggles and triumphs of her life, as well as how her strong faith aided her to rise against all odds in life. Her faith’s foundation was laid when she heard the voice of Jesus Christ at the age of 16, guiding her to do the right thing. Ever since then, Collins has been following Christ’s voice at every turn in her life. Now, she wants to help her readers do the same. Here are 8 reasons why faith is important in life, by Christian Truth Center:
· To be hopeful
God's word brings hope in our life and it is only by faith that we believe in it.
We must have faith in God that goes against our hope to hope in what God says. Abraham was as good as dead, with Sarah barren with no hope of a son, but he had to go against his hope to believe and hope in God for a son.
Rom: 4:18-19: Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb
As we hope against our hope we should not grow weak in faith but strong, fully convinced that God is able like Abraham. (See Rom: 4:20)
Rom 4:21: And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform.
· To walk in the light in this world
2 Cor: 5:7: (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
· Faith is a shield
Ephesians 6:16: Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Faith is a shield from world wickedness and it is a sure victory and freedom from fear, worries, and the danger of sudden death and pain.
· For our sins to be forgiven
By faith God forgives sins.
Mark 2:5: Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, ‘My son, your sins are forgiven‘.
· To enter and inherit the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:15: I assure you, anyone who doesn’t have their kind of faith will never get into the Kingdom of God.
· Source of peace and joy in our life
Romans 5:1[Faith Brings Joy]: Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
· Source of protection
1 Thessalonians 5:8: But let us who live in the light think clearly, protected by the body armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.
· Assurance of salvation
Hebrews 10:39: But we are not like those who turn their backs on God and seal their fate. We have faith that assures our salvation.
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