1 Peter 1:21
21 who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
It is through Christ and His sacrifice for us that we are believers in God—who raised Christ from the dead and gave Him glory when He brought Him back to heaven. Hence our faith and hope are to be in God.
As I see it, there are basically two different kinds, or categories, of faith: saving faith and Christian living faith; that is, faith to be saved and faith to live as a Christian. These are found in my book Principles of Prayer.
1. Saving faith. In Ephesians 2:8-9 Paul said, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God…” Here we see that our salvation is a gift from God. It is totally a gift. We did nothing. That means that our faith was a gift too. He gave us faith to believe, which resulted in our salvation. What a great gift!
2. Faith to live the Christian life. Every part of the Christian life, if you live as a Christian, is a life of faith. As Paul said in Galatians 2:20, we live in the flesh, but we…
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Stephen Nielsen 