Faithfulness

1 Thessalonians 5:24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

Matthew 25:21 & 23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things,

Do not be confused over the promise of faithfulness, Christ is faithful in all His promises and execution of will. We however are sometimes faithful, as indicated in Matthew 25. The promise is not in us but rather to us.

1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

The answer to the struggle of how faithful we are is in acknowledging that He chooses when to be faithful in using us and we cannot chose that for ourselves. We can be obedient, but faithfulness is not a choice, it is character.

It takes time to build character. The more important the character, the longer it takes to become that character in truth and performance. You cannot fake faithfulness, it is not something you can put on.

Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

You will never catch faithfulness by chasing it.

Answers

Psalm 118:5 I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

Psalm 119:42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

Isaiah 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Mathew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

Ephesians 3:3-4 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

John 14:26, 15:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: