Remember the song, “Higher Ground.”

Gen. 4:1-12

Heb. 12:24-29

Job 19:1-29

Job 13:1-16

James 5: 1-12

Many temptations will come on the people of God; but remember Matt. 24:13, “But he that shall endure to the end shall be saved.” Job endured the trials and temptations that came to him like no other human being. Also the scriptures testify of Job, as in the book of James 5:11, “Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”

Job’s wife in 2:9, asked her husband to curse God, and die. But Job, a man of patience, replied in Job 2:10, “Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this did not Job sin with his lips. He had faith and trusted in God. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. He said, “Yet in my flesh shall I see God.

Remember the song, “Faith is the victory.”

Gen. 5:21-24

Jude 14-15.

Heb. 11: 7

Gen. 6: 9-22; 7: 17-24

The bible said in Heb. 11:7, “By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet ,moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house.”

By doing so he condemned the world of his day and became the heir of righteousness which is by faith. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God, ( And preserved him in the ark), a preacher of righteousness; 2nd Peter 2:5.

Remember the song, “On ward, Christian soldiers.”

Judges 5:1-12

She was a prophetess and was fearless. She told Barak, an Israel valiant man, that God had given over their enemies into their hands and that he should get ten thousand men of 2 tribes of Israel and go out against Sisera. But Barak said to her, “If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.”

And Deborah said, “I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to war. That is faith and trust in God. How many men will go to the war front like Deborah. Better have God with you. And they won the war.

Luke 8: 43-48

Matt. 9:20-22

She came behind Jesus in the crowd and touched the hem of his garment. And immediately her issue of blood stanched, (stopped).

Jesus said, “Who touched me? Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.”

The woman came knowing she was not hiding from him, trembling and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. Jesus said to her, “Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. You can see what faith in God did for the woman. She touched the Most High and did not know; but her faith pulled her through and Jesus Christ, God in the flesh commended her faith.

Luke 8:45, “ Who touched me?”

Remember the song, “God moves in a mysterious way.”

Gen. 12:14-18;

14:14-24;

18:16-33

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

James 2;21, “Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?” Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Gen. 18: 1-15

Heb 11:11-16

Gen.20:1-18;

21:1-8

Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, (90 years) because she judged him faithful who had promised.

1st Peter 3:6, “Even Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters are ye,( in the faith) as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”

And Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born of Sarah. They counted him faithful who had promised.

Study Genesis 17:15-19.

Gen. 15:6, “And he believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness.”

Remember the song, “I am thine O Lord.”

Heb. 11: 23-29

By faith Moses kept the passover and by faith also he passed the Red sea as by dry land. By faith he received the tablet of commandments.

By faith Moses saw the land that God promised unto the fathers as in

Deut. 34:4, “And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.” Remember Luke 9:27-36, men of faith stood there.

Luke 8:1-3

Mark 15: 44-47;

16: 1-9

Matt.27:61

John 20:11-18

Luke 24:10

Mary Magdalene was a woman that received salvation after Jesus Christ healed her of evil spirits and infirmities; out of whom went out seven devils.

From then on she never looked back, never allowed the devil to return, because she grew more each day loving Jesus Christ the more and taking every opportunity to listen, eat and digest every word of Jesus. This was faith in action. When Jesus took his last breath on the cross she was there. When he was put in the sepulcher she was watching. When all left she hung around and came back the third day; because she believed and had faith in the resurrection of Jesus. She was the first one He appeared to after his resurrection. She thought he was a gardener when she was at the sepulcher she even asked him where they had taken Jesus’ body to. Then He called her by name from behind and she knew the voice and immediately called him Master. She had faith in Jesus.

Remember the song, “Blessed Assurance.”

1st Sam. 17:25-51

He acknowledged himself to be a sinner, and knew that his creator was the only solution to his life of sin. And that God had a secret place to hide those that exercise their faith and trust in him as Lord of all.

David went to war and trusted his faith in the Lord. He even said the Lord teacheth my hands to war, and by the Lord he ran over troops; well that is faith. He even ran, not walked, to confront the giant Goliath, a man of war, when David was just a shepherd boy. By faith he David did several things as a youth, 1st Samuel 17:34-36. By faith David slew the giant. By faith sang songs to cast out evil spirits in Saul. By faith he did not kill Saul for he was God’s anointed. By faith David said, I would rather fall into the hands of God than man, (2nd Sam. 24:14). David came from Boaz of Ruth to Obed, to Jesse. God honors and loves faith.

Ruth 1:1-18

She got married to Elimelech’s son whose mother was Naomi. In the process of time the father and two sons died. And Naomi was old and desired to return from Moab to Judah. So she asked her two daughter inlaws to return to their families because she could not help them nor had any more sons. One of them Orpah went back to her people and to her gods. She forsook all she learned about the God of Israel from Naomi’s family: but Ruth was different. She internalized faith in the God of Israel. In Ruth 1:16, Ruth said to Naomi, “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” That is faith and God honored her faith and she became the great, great,grandmother of king David. That is faith and Jesus came by David.

Remember the song, “Jesus never fails.”

Dan 2:10-23

Dan. 6:1-23

Dan. 9:1-23

By faith Daniel said, “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the mouth of the lions, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.”

By faith he believed, trusted and reminded the children of Israel to go back and rebuild Jesrusalem, as the captivity was ending according to the 70 years prophecy of Jeremiah the prophet, (Dan. 9:1-5). By faith God showed Daniel the last days

Acts 9: 3-20

Acts 13: 1-12

Acts 14:7-11.

Acts 16:16-33

2nd Cor. 12:1-5

At the end of his battle on earth and before Nero, Paul said in 2nd Tim. 4:6-8, “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”

By faith Paul had the revelation of the translation, as recorded in 1st Thess. 4:16-17, “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

Paul by faith in God endured many things as he said, “I know whom I have believed, “ (2nd Tim. 1:12). And in 2nd Cor. 11:23-31, Paul, detailed a lot of things that confronted him as a believer, and but for faith in God and the grace of Jesus Christ it would have been impossible.

verse 3

“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.”