Romans 1:16

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Psalm 49:15

But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

Psalm 68:35

Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!

Matthew 22:29

But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

Ephesians 3:7

Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.

Colossians 2:12

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

It is when we believe we know a “thing” and search the scriptures that we are laid low by the vanity of belief not born by the faith that got us here to begin with.

1 Corinthians 8:2

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Luke 8:13 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

There have been some posts of late about “falling away”.

The parable of the sower teaches us that one can believe the Word with the mind and take joy in it, but never took it to heart where it became rooted and grounded in love.

Ephesians 3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

To complete that thought we must include ¹⁸ may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, ¹⁹ and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Our faith is tested to show us if it be by the power of God or of human intellect.

Some of what can be seen in modern churches these days is not a falling away, faith never took root in their hearts.

Psalm 49:12 But man, with all his [self] honor and pomp, will not endure; He is like the beasts that perish. (AMP)