Topical Bible-Reading for May: Faith
Faith is trust and confidence in who God is and what he has said and done.
“By grace, [the unmerited love of God] you have been saved [from eternal punishment], through faith [in Jesus Christ],” (Eph. 2:8a).
“Saving faith is the assent of the mind to the truth of the divine revelation…an entire confidence and trust in God’s character and declarations and the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation,” (American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster 1828).
Justified by Faith: “since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God”
1. Romans 5:1-2 2. Hebrews 11:6
3. Romans 3:27-28 4. Romans 3:20-26
5. Acts 13:29-33 and 38-39 6. Acts 15:9, 20:21
7. Romans 10:8-13 8. Galatians 2:16, 3:8-9
9. Galatians 3:11-14
Live by Faith- “I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave his life for me.”
10. Matthew 8:5-13 11. Matthew 9:1-8, 22, 29.
12. Acts 26:15-18
Mother’s Day 13. Matthew 15:28
14.Luke 5:18-26. 15.Acts 3:1-16 (esp. 16).
16. Acts 27:20-26
Fight of Faith:
“If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all,” (Isaiah 7:9b, NIV).
17. Ephesians 6:10-20 (esp. 16) 18. Philippians 3:7-11
19. Luke 22:31-32 20. Acts 14:9-10, 19-22
21. I Corinthians 16: 13-14. 22. I Timothy 6:9-12
23. James 1:2-8 24. Hebrews 12:1-14
Freedom of Faith
25. Ephesians 3:12, 14-19, 12-18. 26. I Corinthians 2:4-5.
27. Galatians 5:22
Memorial Day 28. Colossians 1:3-23
29. Galatians 1:23-24 30. Hebrews 10:19-25 and 35-39
31. Jude 3, 20-15
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen,”(Heb. 11:1,RSV).
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