How Would You Define Your Faith?

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Everyone has faith in something or someone, but the critical question is, “Who or what is your faith in?” In my life, I have discovered. two different viewpoints on this topic. Some people like to feel “religious,” and others cherish their “personal relationship” with Jesus Christ. How about you? Have you grown up practicing “Religion?” Or do you have “A Relationship” with God? Here is the difference. Unfortunately, for many, religion follows a set of man-made rules.  It is an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and practices used to worship their created “God.”

Then, on the other hand, having a relationship with Jesus Christ is a daily personal way of life. The connection is between our creator God and ourselves, based on the truth of God from the Bible, not on a denomination’s interpretation. A relationship with Jesus offers us love, comfort, direction, hope, and the forgiveness we all need. Remember that we can say we have faith, but if we do not show love to one another, we are like clanging gong, so it is not just whether we say that we are Christians; the actual test is if we show God’s love in our hearts which is a result in knowing Him. ~ Bill Greguska

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

 

 

 

Why Do You Believe In God?

 

Do You Find Yourself Practicing “Religion?”

Do You Have A Personal “Relationship” With God?” 

Watch This Short Video, “Why I Hate Religion?“

 

 

There Are Many Ways You Can Define Your Faith!

God knows our hearts! After reflecting on what I have learned from the Bible, God has used some of what was evil in my past to turn it around and make good out of it in my life! It is a combination of God’s Word and what God has done in our lives through His love, grace, and power, which I found in the Bible. If how you define your faith comes from both of your parents being Christian or that you go to church weekly or give money to the church or the poor, I urge you to look into your faith a little more closely. You might be deceiving yourself.  Because God’s grace saves us, all we need to do is accept that gift of grace that He makes available to us. ~ Bill Greguska

 

Define Your Faith In God That Comes Through The Holy Spirit!

Questions To Help Examine And Test Your Faith In God!

  1. Do you enjoy having fellowship with Christ and His redeemed people? 1 John 1:3
  2. Would people say you walk in the light or darkness? 1 John 1:6-7
  3. Do you admit and confess your sin? 1 John 1:8
  4. Are you obedient to God’s Word? 1 John 2:3-5
  5. Does how you live your life show that you love God rather than the world? 1 John 2:15
  6. Is your life characterized by “doing what is right”? 1 John 2:29

 

More Questions For You To Consider

  1. Do you seek to maintain a pure life? 1 John 3:3
  2. Do you see a decreasing pattern of sin in your life? 1 John 3:5-6 Note: this refers to not continuing in sin as a way of life, not a total absence of sin.
  3. Do you demonstrate love for other Christians? 1 John 3:14
  4. Do you “walk the walk” versus just “talk the talk”? 1 John 3:18-19
  5. Do you maintain a clear conscience? 1 John 3:21
  6. Do you experience victory in your Christian walk? 1 John 5:4
Suppose you can answer “Yes” to most of the above questions. Jesus said that it is by our fruits that we are known as His disciples. 

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Are All These Required To Get Into Heaven?

  1. Live a good life?  
  2. Go to church regularly?  
  3. Become a member of a church?
  4. Give money to a church?  
  5. Obey the ten commandments?
  6. Get Baptized?  
  7. Be confirmed by your church?  
  8. Read the Bible daily?
  9. Pray daily?  
  10. Trust in God and confess and turn from your sins?

(Answers To The Above Ten Questions):

The answer is #10. If you checked any more of the items, you failed the test. Please don’t feel bad at all.  Religion is our feeble attempts to please God by doing good works. (Good actions are not wrong but are not the way to heaven). It says in Romans 10:9-10 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

Some Specific Scriptures To Encourage You:

Hebrews 11:6 ESV 

And without faith, it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Romans 10:17 ESV 

So faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV 

For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 John 5:4 ESV

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

James 2:17 ESV 

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV 

Looking to Jesus, the founder, and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV

For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Galatians 2:20 ESV 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV 

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV 

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV 

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Mark 10:52 ESV 

And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately, he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.

Mark 9:23 ESV 

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

 

 

 

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