The Importance of Faith in Daily Living

Habakkuk 2:4‘ … but the righteous shall live by his faith’

Habakkuk 2:4‘ … but the righteous shall live by his faith’

FACTS – FAITH – FEELINGS

Romans 10:17‘Consequently, faith comes from hearing the

message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ’ (NIV)

‘So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God’ (NKJV)

Proverbs 4:20-22‘My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to My words. Do not let them out of

your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are life to those who find them and health to a

man’s whole body’ (NIV)

‘My son, give attention to My words; incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they are life to those who find them,

and health to all their flesh’ (NKJV)

‘Repent and be baptised …’ (Acts 2:38)

Romans 12:1-2‘Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is

your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s

will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will’

Romans 1:16‘I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is

the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the

Gentile’

Romans 12:1-2‘Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is

your spiritual act of worship’

‘spiritual’ (NIV) and ‘reasonable’ (NKJV) Greek ‘logikos’

‘logical’

Romans 12:1-2‘Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is

your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s

will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will’

Romans 8:7‘The sinful mind is hostile to God …’

Other translations, ‘the enemy of God’

Romans 12:2‘Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this

world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and

approve what God’s will is – His good, pleasing and perfect will’

Romans 12:3‘For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than

you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgement, in accordance with the

measure of faith God has given you’

Romans 12:4-5‘Just as each of us has one body with many

members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many

form one body, and each member belongs to all the others’

1 Corinthians 12:18‘But in fact God has arranged the parts in the

body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be’

1 Corinthians 12:21‘The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I

don’t need you!”’

Romans 10:17‘… faith comes from hearing the message …’

Romans 12:3‘ … the measure of faith God has given you’

Romans 12:6‘We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is prophesying, let him

use it in proportion to his faith’

Ephesians 2:10‘For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God

prepared in advance for us to do’

Hebrews 4:3‘Now we who have believed enter that rest just

as God has said …’

Hebrews 4:11‘Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that

rest, so that no one will fall …’

Ezekiel 12:25‘But I the Lord will speak what I will, and it

shall be fulfilled without delay …’

Psalm 33:6‘By the word of the Lord were the

heavens made …’

Hebrew ‘dabar’ = ‘word’ or ‘thing’

God’s words are ‘things’

Genesis 1:3‘And God said, “Let there be light,” and there

was light’

Proverbs 14:12‘There is a way that seems right to a man, but in

the end it leads to death’

Proverbs 16:25‘There is a way that seems right to a man, but in

the end it leads to death’

Habakkuk 2:4‘ … but the righteous shall live by his faith’

Hebrews 11:6‘And without FAITH it is impossible to please

God …’

‘By GRACE alone, through FAITH alone, in CHRIST alone – forever’