Faith
When you plant vegetable seeds, you are exercising faith that, in time, you'll enjoy homegrown vegetables from your garden. When you sit in a chair at your kitchen table, you are exercising faith that the chair will support your body. When you board a jet, you are exercising faith that the jet will hold together and the pilot will direct is safely to your destination. Although faith is essential to everyday life, you seldom think about it because you've learned to put your trust in what you believe to be trustworthy objects and people. If these things or people let you down, you're not so trusting the next time.

Faith is essential to eternal life; it is the way we have a relationship with God. First, when we receive Jesus Christ as Savior, we are exercising faith that he is the way to heaven, the one who makes us God's child. Second, because we cannot see God now, we live our lives by faith. We make our decisions and follow desires based on God's character and his promises.

How much faith is needed? That isn't the important question. What matters is this: Who is the object of your faith? Only the God of the Bible, the one who sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins, is fully trustworthy. Faith trusts him to always be who he says he is. Faith believes that the promiser keeps his promises. Your faith is enough if your faith is in him.

Faith is not a mental exercise - it always proves itself real by how we live our lives.
Hebrews 11:1-40
James 2:14-20
God requires faith.
Romans 1:17
2 Corinthians 5:7
Ephesians 2:8-9
Hebrews 11:6
God is the trustworthy object of our faith.
Deuteronomy 7:9
Psalm 117:2
Isaiah 11:5
Lamentations 3:22-23
Romans 3:3-4
1 Corinthians 10:13
Faith is like a muscle - it grows with exercise.
Matthew 6:30
Luke 17:5-6
2 Corinthians 10:15
Galations 5:22-23
2 Thessalonians 1:3