Dying For Faith.

 You know this verse, I know you know it--  Rom 10:17  So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

Our FAITH comes by the WORD OF GOD- HEARING that WORD.

The preceding verses at the beginning of the Book of Romans-

Rom 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 

Rom 1:17  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 

The GOSPEL of CHRIST is the POWER of GOD UNTO SALVATION.  That's the WORD of GOD we need to hear. The gospel. We hear and we believe what we hear. There is POWER in the WORD OF GOD.

You CANNOT have faith without the word of God. We need this powerful Word. This is a Word people have DIED for! How many believe they died for nothing, but it was far from nothing. They died in FAITH and their FAITH came from the Word of God. No wonder they died for the Word, to them it was LIFE- ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! It wasn't just a book with empty, meaningless words. These men and women weren't and aren't still today, stupid, ignorant imbeciles, mindless and unable to think logically and rationally as so many would have us believe. These were and are blessed people who recognize the power of the Word of God! 

May WE all recognize the Power of the WORD OF GOD- FAITH!  If our faith is weak we need to delve deep into the Word of God, daily, hourly, as often as we can submerse ourselves in the life giving Word of God. If you can only manage a single verse of Scripture today to sustain your faith, then READ it, read that word of God! Those few words are filled with POWER. Just don't neglect the word of God. Pray, open your heart to God, rely upon Him to guide you to the words you need, to give you the faith you need. Seek Him and you will find Him - when you search for Him with all your heart.

Jer 29:13  And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 

Excerpt-

'Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Therefore the word of God is the only means of faith.

Therefore, where there is no word of God there cannot be any faith.

And where the word of God is, faith is entire dependence upon that word for the accomplishment of what that word says.

From all this, which is the truth, it is perfectly plain that in order for anyone to ask in faith, he must first of all be sure that he has the word of God for what he asks.'