The word of God says that “now abides faith.” The significance of the word NOW is that it is stating that faith is to be our abiding possession now in our soul. Through the gift of Christ there are three attributes that are abiding now for the believer to live a godly life in Christ. Faith, hope and love abide in the now. When we were saved from the Law we became the just and Now we must live by faith to be pleasing to God. Now faith comes only by hearing the voice of God when He speaks His word to us. Then it should be reasonable to assume that to live by faith is to hear and obey God’s voice. If we do not hear and obey God’s voice in navigating through this life are we living by faith? To maintain this state of having been justified or “saved” we must live a life of obeying God’s voice to be faithful. Can I say that I live my life by the faith of the son of God if my belief and actions are contrary to what His verbal requests demand? To live by faith we must obey what we see the Father do and say only what we hear Him say. Can I say I am living by faith if I do and say from my own fleshly thoughts void of the Father’s voice? No because “faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith is the assurance or confidence of the things hoped for, the evidence or proof, that by which a thing is proved or tested. Faith is our confidence in built in hope and produced from testing or that which has been proven. Faith is that which has been proven to be true in the fire. “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

If in our pursuit of the abundant life in Christ we attempt salvation through anything but grace through faith, such as precepts of the law we frustrate our experience of having been justified by grace. It frustrates grace because it is like trying to mix water and oil. Another way to look at this would be trying to live in life and death at the same time. This creates an internal struggle between the Spirit and the flesh for our soul. “You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.”

Freedom to live in the abundant life is only as we abide in Christ. We do not experience living in having been justified from all things that were under the Law except through faith. When I experience condemnation it is because I am surrendering to the flesh/law instead of surrendering to grace accessed by faith. It is grace that came in Christ and it is abiding in Christ that we stand justified under grace. That is why if I seek to be justified under the Law I am not abiding in Christ and Christ has become of no effect in my life of faith. I have set grace aside and Christ died in vain when I attempt to be justified by the flesh.

We must not judge anyone’s circumstance by what our eyes see or our by what our ears hear. The reason to not judge is God could be leading them to an “Abraham type-mountain top” experience. Our words must encourage them not discourage those being led by the Spirit. The servant of the Lord stands or falls according to own master. We are to minister grace to the hearer. If our words discourage them in this pursuit of Christ we can interfere with God’s directives teaching them to be led by His faith. God is teaching us to be led by the Spirit to achieve faith through obedience.

God has given us eternal life. How and where we shall spend this life is up to us. We can spend this life in the Holy city or outside this city or we can spend eternity in outer darkness. This could be explained in why Jesus told the centurion that many of the sons of the kingdom will be cast into outer darkness. Will this happen to the sons of the kingdom because they will not be found in the faith? The quality of this eternal life is what we are in pursuit of. We are in pursuit of this abundant life now for an abundant life then. How I apprehend now of what I am apprehended of in Christ is what will determine where I will spend eternity. I am persuaded that once we enter into Eternal life we cannot return to eternal death again. This is why we determine where we will spend eternity by our passionate perseverance in pursuit of eternal life now. Our pursuit is for the salvation of spirit, soul, and body. Our spirit is eternally alive through the born again experience. The salvation of our soul and body is what we are in pursuit of today through faith.
Phil 3:12-14 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
This is why the Now in “faith” is so important in how we attain to the fullness of the gift of life that has been given in Christ. God does not remove the gift of life. It is just that we must pursue the fullness of this life now in the grace and faith of Christ.

It is only under grace through faith that we abide in Christ. When we seek life through anything but faith it isn’t that Christ forsakes us. When we seek the Father through anything other than grace through faith it is we who are forsaking the gift of Christ. How do we forsake Christ? When we attempt to be healed or saved through any other means than grace through His faith we are rejecting the gift of Christ through our attempts of works from our flesh. If we are attempting to receive from God who can not be pleased except through faith, then who are we pleasing if we are involved in a faithless pursuit? Maybe we are listening to ourselves or Satan? Why do I say faithless pursuit because if we are not hearing God it cannot be living by faith?
Heb 10:38-39 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Heb 11:1-3 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Shouldn’t we be taking note of what Christ is saying about the Sons of the kingdom being cast into outer darkness for their lack of faith? If faith is the only way to please God, then it is pretty much a sure thing that we need to know that we are being found in His faith today. To be found in faith we must be seeking the Spirit’s guidance daily to get through the situations that would destroy our abundant life by abandoning faith. To live in this abundant life we must hear His voice and obey exactly what we have been told. If we do not follow in His advice it will not be faith but disobedience. It is disobedience because we made the decision after our flesh, not after the Spirit of God for faith. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” So, if I am led by my flesh whose son am I and where will I be living in eternity? We cannot assume the answers to these questions.
Matt 8:10-12 "Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! 11 "And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 "But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Matt 22:11-14 11 "But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. 12 "So he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. 13 "Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.' 14 "For many are called, but few are chosen."
How did Enoch please God so that he did not see death but was translated into paradise? The word of God says that Enoch had this testimony. He pleased God and so God translated him. Enoch pleased God because lived his life by obeying faith. Enoch obeyed the voice of God and therefore he was found to be in faith.
Heb 11:5-6 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
The word of God tells us that we overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. The word of our testimony must come from hearing the voice of the Spirit and obeying to have a testimony that is pleasing God. What is the word of our testimony that will be pleasing to God? Faith says that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Why is it faith? Because we have believed God and it became faith through our action of believing. “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword”? “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,” In all of our trials we are not moved away from our obedience to the faith because we know that God will never forsake us. If I am saved, kept, delivered, preserved from danger by grace through faith then there is nothing else that will bring about this finished work of Christ in my life. This is why we must not want to frustrate grace or set it aside by looking to fleshly works such as precepts of the law because they will not save us or please God. “Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain?”

Romans 8:33-39 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Faith is complete surrender to the Father’s will as demonstrated by Christ on the way to the cross and on the cross in giving His life for us. He was denied by Peter three times, forsaken by His disciples, betrayed by Judas, but Christ still kept His obedience to the Father to author and finish faith. True faith believes God, not what the world, the flesh, or the devil might be trying to convince us of. Do we have that kind of faith? Do we hold to the obedience of faith that will give us victory in our running of the race to the high calling of God in Christ? If we are not living daily by this kind of faith then we need to start so that our testimony will be pleasing to the Father. Faith is not for the obtaining of the pleasures of this temporal life but for the pleasing of our Father.
Rev 12:10-12 10 Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. 12 "Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time."
It is the faith of Christ that justified us from the Law. Now it is the faith of Christ that gives us access to this Grace that enables us with the strength to stand firm or to live in this experience of having been justified. It is not our faith but the faith of Christ that makes all things possible with God. This is why it is so important to understand that it isn’t our faith that inherits the promises of God. It is our abiding in the faith of Christ not trying to obtain the promises of God through our own works such as tithing or attempting to keep the Ten Commandments or any part of the law. We fulfill the entire Law by living in perfect love. Seeking under the law is our works of the flesh. The Holy Spirit is seeking the word of faith under grace.
This is why the proving of faith is so important to our inheritance in the promises of God. It is in the testing that proves to us whether we are listening to hear faith or are we seeking godliness and holiness through our fleshly endeavors. In the heat of the trial are waiting upon God to speak or are we running to and fro to get a word. Our fleshly works do not prove His faith they prove our unbelief in what God has said when we apostatize or abandon faith in our trials. It is only as we hear the voice of the Spirit giving us the way of faith that we are found in the faith as we obey. If I am not hearing the voice of Spirit, then who am I obeying?
We must hold to the belief that Christ is who God says He is and that God has made all things possible through Christ on our behalf. We must live a godly and holy life by the finished works of Christ’s faith that now abides. Christ’s faith has been proven in the fire and without His grace and faith there is no salvation. Were we saved by the works of the flesh or by the hearing of faith? We were justified or saved from death unto life by the hearing of His faith. Is it possible to live a sinless life by our faith or by the hearing of His faith? We can only live obediently through the hearing of His faith that He has proven for us. When we believe God concerning Christ’s accomplishment of a sinless life, we too can live the same through His abiding faith. We also must believe that it is grace that strengthens us to be able to obey the requests of faith.
Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Acts 3:16 16 "And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
It is not enough that we just accept that He is the son of God. The demons knew He was the son of God but still rebelled. We receive the first experience of eternal life by believing He is the son of God and that grants us the “born again” experience. Now having passed from death under the Law and having received life in Christ, we must continue to receive and appropriate spiritual knowledge for living faithful before God. We must receive “all things pertaining to life and godliness” through the accomplishment of His faith. By following the leading of the Holy Spirit imparting the Word of truth to us we grow in our new life into the fullness of Christ. Something to think about is if a little leaven leavens the whole lump, what does a little sin do to our life in Christ? "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 "For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. 3 "Therefore whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

We are not of those who draw back unto perdition but of those who believe to the saving of the soul. If we do draw back it may at first be a very slight departure from the narrow way of His truth. Once we allow a little compromise of the truth (leaven) to take place in favor of the passions of our fallen nature we now become weak in the faith and led by the flesh. Now that we have opened the way for the wiles of the devil, who moves quickly to tempt us at our weaknesses we then can be overcome by his fiery darts. So the end of compromise is this, because of error we no longer embrace the judgment of God that brings us this abundant life. Now almost of a certainty the soul forgets its “first love” and as we drift further away from the truth we no longer look to be led of the Holy Spirit. We no longer are led by the Spirit of God where error has taken root. We are led by the error through a seducing spirit. We now have a new voice leading us down the path to unrighteousness because this is the enemy’s goal. This is why it so important to embrace the judgment of God and not to grieve the Holy Spirit when He is dealing with us.

The life of faith is an individual matter of surrendering the heart, mind and spirit to God. Faith is much more than an acceptance of doctrines that have been considered truth. The true life of faith is the obedience in that which God has proven true as we are being tested. As our ways are being tested, godly principles become our principles and His abiding truth becomes our inspiration to pursue this life by faith. This is what it means to “believe in the saving of the soul.” “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” As we realize the sufficiency of grace through faith to resist the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil we discover the freedom of His faith operating in us and through us.
Eph 3:16-20 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height-- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Let us remember that he who has begun a good work in us will bring it to completion. If we humbly submit ourselves to the leading and judgment of the Holy Spirit we will find rest in the Lord. The Lord’s promise is that he will not suffer us to be tempted beyond what we are able to endure. Then this must mean that in the circumstances we find ourselves in, that His grace received through faith is more than sufficient for the moment. So are we to believe that any trial is not more than we can endure in the Lord? Until we are offered the way of escape we must believe that God has our best interest at heart. To me, this is what His faith is about, “if this cup can not pass from me then your will be done through me Father.” Faith has taught me that I can do all things through Christ whose power rests upon me to strengthen me.

There is a second way to look at God’s not allowing us to be tempted beyond our level of understanding in the knowledge of Christ’s faith. From my own experience in the Lord I have found that when I arrive at the point that God determines to be more than I could endure there is a way of escape provided. There are two problems that can arise in this scenario, and sometimes they do. One, we begin to believe we can not proceed any further in the trial and so we make our own way of escape. This is definitely not the way through faith. If we are standing in the trial strengthened by grace, God Himself will provide a way of escape if we are listening to the Holy Spirit. What we are waiting for is the word of faith that we can obey in following the way of escape. There could be some issues that might keep us from experiencing the provision or word of faith as the way of escape. What we must avoid in a trial is that we must not murmur and complain because God does not approve of this and the way of escape will not come. We must be rejoicing and praising God knowing He is there ready to deliver us out of this trial as God sees we fear Him. What we must understand is that if we make our own way we do not fear God. Faith is the only way to please God and making our own way is abandoning faith. The way offered will be the opportunity to obey and we will experience God’s deliverance from faith to faith. The difficulties we experience in our trials will never compare to the glory and love of God we will know when we overcome through the way of faith.
1 Cor 10:1-13 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
There is a reason that I understand about the way of escape. It is because I have been given the way of escape by the Lord in times of temptation in my trials. I have also made the mistake of making my own way of escape out of my trials at times. We don’t learn the way of faith by taking a detour. We learn rebellion. After the detour we find ourselves back on the same road of trial again to learn obedience. We must obey faith that comes by hearing the Spirit. We cannot be made perfect by abandoning faith in a trial. “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”
Making our own way is following the flesh in disobedience. We think our decision is for survival or self preservation. The problem with making our own way we will not be found in the faith. If we are not found in the faith where will we be found in this eternal life? Will we be in the city, outside the city or will we be in outer darkness? We must be found in the faith now in our testing or we suffer the judgment of God and we suffer loss now and then.
Let’s look at the faith of Peter when he asked to walk on the water.
The Apostles saw a figure walking on the Sea of Galilee. Peter alone said, “Jesus, if it is really you bid me to come to you.”
The rest of the Apostles remained silent and stayed in the boat for fear of perishing. Jesus responded to Peter in one word, “Come,” This one word when acted upon became obedience to faith for Peter.

Peter stepped out of the boat and walked onto the sea. Peter’s word of faith from Christ allowed him to make the first move to walk on the water. But, as Peter began to look at his circumstances instead of keeping his focus in faith he began to sink. As Peter began to sink he needed Christ to save him for his lack of faith at that moment.

Isn’t this a little like us who live on the single experience of “I am saved.” But in our trials we are sinking and abandon faith but we still claim to be “saved?” God wants to grow us up into Christ and it is in our sinking that He saves us from becoming an apostate. Peter could get out of the boat on this single word of faith, but he could not stay afloat without Christ to save him in his time of doubt. This is an excellent example of the difference of attempting to live our life by a single word of faith from yesterdays or living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father each day.

It is not our circumstance of sinking that Christ is concerned with. Christ is concerned with whether or not we are living from faith to faith or from attempting to live from yesterday’s manna. In every new circumstance I find myself in I need the way of escape. Yesterday’s obedience to the faith will not necessarily be today’s way of escape. Yesterday’s obedience to faith gives me hope for today. I need to hear so that I am growing in faith from faith to faith. Another concern might be whether we are looking and listening for today’s way of escape. I wonder are we like Peter and say “Lord bid me to come” but when the circumstances seem to be overwhelming we faint in our heart and forget to listen for the way of escape. Instead of hoping in the Lord to save us in the now, do we find other ways to change our circumstances? It was when Peter faced drowning at sea that Christ extended a hand for Peter to be saved. It was at this point of fearing death that Peter “lived’ by the faith of Christ.
But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

It was Christ’s faith that pulled Peter back up to walk on the water. It was no longer Peter trying to live by the first word of faith. It is our lack of faith that has failed when we are being tested by God and this is what God is attempting to reveal to us. God’s purpose in judgment isn’t to keep us from inheriting all things. His purpose is just the opposite. Without accepting the truth revealed in judgment we will not inherit all things in Christ because we are not being found in the faith by obeying His voice. We inherit through the faith of Christ that NOW abides. It does not say that our faith now abides. We have been given His faith so that we can obey what we hear without fear of perishing in the trial. If the Father did not fail Christ in raising Him from the dead why do we yet lack faith to believe?
Gal 2:20-21 20 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain."
Gal 3:2-7 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain? 5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?-- 6 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
It is through the faith of the son of God that I am to live this life. What part does my belief or faith play in this life? I first believed because the Holy Spirit revealed to me that Jesus is the Christ as God has said. It is the measure of faith that God has given to all of us that we believe with. Once I believe that He is the son of God it is this measure of faith that I must grow in to live this life by faith. As I grow in His faith from faith to faith I am able to live godly and holy before the Lord. It is in the trials that we learn the righteousness of God or that the way of the righteous is obeying faith.

If obeying faith is the righteousness of God then we learn the right way to live in righteousness from faith to faith. When we are not pursuing in His faith we are not living in the righteousness of God because we are living by the flesh. We learn what is right or faith in the sight of God through the way of escape being offered. Learning from faith to faith is what is right in the sight of God as we obey His voice. By the way what is right in the sight of God will not be the way of the world, the flesh or the devil. These voices do not speak for God or faith.
Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
What about faithful Abraham? Did he always follow righteousness with what God had said to him? Let’s see, God said “that he and Sarah would have a son.” What Abraham did next was not exactly what God had said because Sarah sent him to Hagar to have his son. So when was Abrahams belief accounted to him for righteousness? It was accounted to him for righteousness when he believed God that he and Sarah would have a son. When Abraham did what was right in the sight of God he was accounted righteous. It is important for us to understand that if we are not living from faith to faith we are not pleasing in the sight of God. We are not pleasing God because we are living by presumption. It’s presumption because we have presumed that we are right before God. Abraham might have presumed having a son through Hagar was right. It wasn’t right in the sight of God because he had not followed faith. Without the proving of faith we can only presume that we are right before God. We have no proof of being right because without the trials of fire we do not experience the way of escape to prove we are faithful in obeying. How does the fire prove we are faithful? We are proven faithful when we hear the way of escape and obey it because it is the right way of God. Therefore to be accounted righteous in Christ before God, we must obey, not my will but your will be done, Father. For example we can not render evil for evil because we are to love our enemies. It is the will of God that we resist the temptation to sin because we are not to be a servant to sin. We are free to be a servant of righteousness.
Gen 17:16-20 16 "And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" 18 And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!" 19 Then God said: "No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him. 20 "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
It wasn’t until Abraham had first followed his flesh and turned back to the right way and believed God that his faith was accounted to him for righteousness. Then Abraham believed God in hope against hope. This is the hope that we all need to come to so that we don’t look at the impossible circumstances in our life according to our flesh. We must believe in hope against hope because with God nothing is impossibl

The word of God says that “now abides faith.” The significance of the word NOW is that it is stating that faith is to be our abiding possession now in our soul. Through the gift of Christ there are three attributes that are abiding now for the believer to live a godly life in Christ. Faith, hope and love abide in the now.
 

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