Faith Hope Love
3 Ingredients to a Successful Relationship with Christ
Faith
Faith: 1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something. 2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
Hebrews 11:1Â “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”
James 2:20Â “Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from work is useless?”
James 2:17Â “So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead”
Hope
Hope: 1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. 2. grounds for believing that something good may happen. 3. a feeling of trust.
Romans 5:5Â “And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us”
Thessalonaians 3:5Â “Remembering before our God and your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope our Lord Jesus Christ”
Colossians 1:27Â “To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of Glory”
Love
Love: 1. an intense feeling of deep affection.
John 4:7Â “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God”
Peter 4:8Â “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins”
Romans 8:28Â “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, fro those who are called according to his purpose”
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