Faith by It Saints: Overcome the Devil
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Faith, as depicted in the Bible, is a powerful and essential element in the life of a believer. It is through faith that the saints of God are able to overcome the devil and his schemes. The Bible provides numerous examples and teachings that illustrate how faith empowers believers to stand firm against the adversary.

Biblical Foundation of Faith

Faith is defined in Hebrews 11:1 as "the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see." This assurance and certainty are rooted in the promises of God, which are unwavering and eternal. Faith is not merely intellectual assent but a deep-seated trust in God and His Word.

Faith as a Shield

Ephesians 6:16 instructs believers to "take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one." The imagery of a shield suggests that faith is a protective barrier against the attacks of the devil. This protection is not passive; it requires active engagement and reliance on God's promises.

Examples of Faith Overcoming the Devil

1. Jesus in the Wilderness: In Matthew 4:1-11, Jesus demonstrates the power of faith in overcoming the devil's temptations. By relying on Scripture and His unwavering trust in the Father, Jesus resists the devil's attempts to lead Him astray. His example shows that faith, grounded in the Word of God, is a formidable weapon against temptation.

2. Job's Perseverance: The account of Job is a profound testament to faith in the face of satanic attack. Despite losing everything, Job maintains his faith in God, declaring, "Though He slay me, I will hope in Him" (Job 13:15). Job's faith ultimately leads to his vindication and restoration, illustrating that steadfast faith can withstand even the most severe trials.

3. The Apostles' Boldness: In the Book of Acts, the apostles face persecution and opposition from both human and spiritual forces. Acts 4:29-31 records their prayer for boldness, which is answered by the filling of the Holy Spirit. Their faith empowers them to preach the gospel fearlessly, overcoming the devil's attempts to silence them.

Faith and the Word of God

Romans 10:17 states, "So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." The Word of God is the foundation upon which faith is built. It is through Scripture that believers are equipped to discern the devil's lies and stand firm in truth. The Bible serves as both a source of faith and a weapon against spiritual deception.

The Role of Prayer in Strengthening Faith

Prayer is a vital component in the life of faith. James 5:16 emphasizes the power of prayer, stating, "The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail." Through prayer, believers draw near to God, receive His strength, and fortify their faith. This communion with God is essential in resisting the devil and his schemes.

Faith in the Community of Believers

The community of believers plays a crucial role in nurturing and sustaining faith. Hebrews 10:24-25 encourages believers to "spur one another on to love and good deeds" and to "not neglect meeting together." Fellowship with other believers provides support, encouragement, and accountability, helping individuals to remain steadfast in their faith.

Conclusion

The Bible presents faith as an indispensable tool for overcoming the devil. Through faith, believers are equipped to resist temptation, endure trials, and stand firm in the truth of God's Word. The examples of Jesus, Job, and the apostles, along with the teachings of Scripture, underscore the power of faith in the life of a saint.
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Ephesians 6:16
Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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What does “from faith to faith” mean in Romans 1:17? | GotQuestions.org

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Faith

Faith by It Saints are Supported

Faith by It Saints: Live

Faith by It Saints: Obtain a Good Report

Faith by It Saints: Overcome the Devil

Faith by It Saints: Overcome the World

Faith by It Saints: Resist the Devil

Faith by It Saints: Stand

Faith by It Saints: Walk

Faith in Believing God's Promise, That his Kingdom Would be a Perpetual Kingdom

Faith in Choosing to Fall Into the Hands of the Almighty for his Punishment for Counting the People of Israel

Faith in Christ

Faith in Christ Is: Accompanied by Repentance

Faith in Christ Is: Followed by Conversion

Faith in Christ Is: Fruitful

Faith in Christ Is: Most Holy

Faith in Christ Is: Precious

Faith in Christ Is: The Gift of God

Faith in Christ Is: The Work of God

Faith in Christ, Exemplified

Faith in Christ: Andrew

Faith in Espousing the Cause of his People

Faith in the Battle With the Canaanites

Faith in the offering up of Isaac

Faith is a Gift of the Holy Spirit

Faith is the Evidence of Things not Seen

Faith is the Substance of Things Hoped For

Faith Without Deeds

Faith without Fruits, is Dead

Faith: Abel

Faith: Abraham

Faith: Abraham, in Forsaking the Land of his Nativity at the Command of God

Faith: All Difficulties Overcome By

Faith: All Things should be Done In

Faith: Amaziah, in Dismissing the Ephraimites in Obedience to the Command of God

Faith: And Other Conquests

Faith: At the Death of Korah

Faith: Barnabas

Faith: Believing the Promise of Many Descendants

Faith: Caleb

Faith: Caleb, in Advising to Take the Land of Promise

Faith: Christ is the Author and Finisher of

Faith: Colossians

Faith: Commanded

Faith: Conquest of Jericho

Faith: Conquests By

Faith: Daniel

Faith: Daniel, in the Lions' Den

Faith: David, in Striking Down Goliath

Faith: Elijah, in his Controversy With the Priest of Baal

Faith: Eliphaz, in the Overruling Providence of God, That Afflictions are for the Good of the Righteous

Faith: Enjoined

Faith: Enoch

Faith: Essential to the Profitable Reception of the Gospel

Faith: Ethiopian

Faith: Examine Whether You be In

Faith: Excludes Boasting

Faith: Excludes Self-Justification

Faith: Exemplified

Faith: Ezra, in Making the Journey from Babylon to Jerusalem Without a Military Escort

Faith: Faith in Christ: About Five-Thousand People

Faith: Faith in Christ: About Three-Thousand People on the Day of Pentecost

Faith: Faith in Christ: Abraham

Faith: Faith in Christ: Barnabas

Faith: Faith in Christ: Blind Bartimaeus and a Fellow Blind Man

Faith: Faith in Christ: Colossians

Faith: Faith in Christ: Crispus

Faith: Faith in Christ: Ephesians

Faith: Faith in Christ: Eunice, Lois, and Timothy

Faith: Faith in Christ: Jairus, for the Healing of his Daughter

Faith: Faith in Christ: James and John

Faith: Faith in Christ: Jews at Jerusalem

Faith: Faith in Christ: Jews at Rome

Faith: Faith in Christ: John the Disciple

Faith: Faith in Christ: Lydia

Faith: Faith in Christ: Mary, the Sister of Martha

Faith: Faith in Christ: Multitudes

Faith: Faith in Christ: Nathanael

Faith: Faith in Christ: Peter

Faith: Faith in Christ: Philemon

Faith: Faith in Christ: Philip

Faith: Faith in Christ: Stephen

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Blind Man Whom Jesus Healed on the Sabbath

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Congregation at Thyatira

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Corinthians

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Crippled Man at Lystra

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Disciples, Through the Miracle at Cana of Galilee

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Ethiopian Eunuch

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Nobleman Whose Child Was Sick

Faith: Faith in Christ: The People of Antioch

Faith: Faith in Christ: The People of Joppa

Faith: Faith in Christ: The People of Lydda and S H) Aron

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Philippian Jailor

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Samaritan Leper

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Sick People of Gennesaret

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Syrophoenician Woman

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Wise Men from the East

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Woman Who Anointed Jesus' Feet

Faith: Faith in Christ: The Woman With the Issue of Blood

Faith: Faith in Christ: Thessalonians

Faith: Faith in Christ: Those Who Brought the Paralyzed Man to Jesus

Faith: Faith in Christ: Those Who Brought Those Who Were Sick With Palsy

Faith: Faith in Christ: Through the Preaching of Jesus

Faith: Faith in Christ: Through the Preaching of Philip

Faith: Faith in Christ: Two Blind Men

Faith: General Scriptures Concerning

Faith: Gideon

Faith: Hannah

Faith: Hezekiah

Faith: Impossible to Please God Without

Faith: Isaac

Faith: Jacob

Faith: Jacob, in Blessing Joseph's Sons

Faith: Job

Faith: Jochebed, in Caring for Moses

Faith: Jonathan, in Stricking Down the Philistines

Faith: Joseph

Faith: Joseph, Concerning God's Providence in his Being Sold Into Egypt

Faith: Joseph, in Obeying the Vision About Mary and to Flee Into Egypt

Faith: Justification is By, to be of Grace

Faith: Lois

Faith: Manoah's Wife

Faith: Martha

Faith: Mordecai, in the Deliverance of the Jews

Faith: Moses

Faith: Nathanael

Faith: Necessary in the Christian Warfare

Faith: Ninevites, in Obeying Jonah

Faith: Noah

Faith: Noah, in Building the Ark

Faith: Often Tried by Affliction

Faith: Paul

Faith: Peter

Faith: Pharaoh's Servants, Who Obeyed the Lord

Faith: Philippian Jailor

Faith: Preaching Designed to Produce

Faith: Priests

Faith: Produces an Evidence of the New Birth

Faith: Produces Boldness in Preaching

Faith: Produces Christ Dwells in the Heart By

Faith: Produces Christ is Precious to Those Having

Faith: Produces Confidence

Faith: Produces Hope

Faith: Produces Joy

Faith: Produces Necessary in Prayer

Faith: Produces Peace

Faith: Produces Those Who are not Christ's Have Not

Faith: Protection of, Illustrated: A Breastplate

Faith: Protection of, Illustrated: A Shield

Faith: Rahab

Faith: Rahab, in Hospitality to the Spies

Faith: Romans

Faith: Saints Die In

Faith: Saints should Abound In

Faith: Saints should be Grounded and Settled In

Faith: Saints should be Sincere In

Faith: Saints should be Strong In

Faith: Saints should Continue In

Faith: Saints should Have Full Assurance of

Faith: Saints should Hold, With a Good Conscience

Faith: Saints should Pray for the Increase of

Faith: Saints should Stand Fast In

Faith: Samaritans

Faith: Sergius Paulus

Faith: Shadrach

Faith: Simeon, when he Saw Jesus in the Temple Courtyard

Faith: Stephen

Faith: Sum Total of Religious Belief and Life

Faith: The Disciples

Faith: The Gospel Effectual in Those Who Have

Faith: The Objects of, Are: Christ

Faith: The Objects of, Are: God

Faith: The Objects of, Are: Promises of God

Faith: The Objects of, Are: The Gospel

Faith: The Objects of, Are: Writings of Moses

Faith: The Objects of, Are: Writings of the Prophets

Faith: The Scriptures Designed to Produce

Faith: The Spies, Sent to Reconnoiter Jericho

Faith: The Three Hebrews, Who Refused to Worship Nebuchadnezzars Idol

Faith: The Wicked Destitute of

Faith: The Wicked often Profess

Faith: Thessalonians

Faith: Thomas

Faith: Through It Is: Access to God

Faith: Through It Is: Adoption

Faith: Through It Is: Edification

Faith: Through It Is: Eternal Life

Faith: Through It Is: Inheritance of the Promises

Faith: Through It Is: Justification

Faith: Through It Is: Preservation

Faith: Through It Is: Remission of Sins

Faith: Through It Is: Rest in Heaven

Faith: Through It Is: Salvation

Faith: Through It Is: Sanctification

Faith: Through It Is: Spiritual Life

Faith: Through It Is: Spiritual Light

Faith: Through It Is: The Gift of the Holy Spirit

Faith: Trial of

Faith: Trial of Abraham, when Commanded to Leave his Native Land and to Go where he did not Know

Faith: Trial of Abraham, when Commanded to offer Isaac

Faith: Trial of by the Question of Jesus, As to Who he Was

Faith: Trial of by Their Inability to Cast out the Evil Spirit from the Epileptic Boy

Faith: Trial of Daniel, when Forbidden to Pray to Jehovah

Faith: Trial of Ezra, in Leaving Babylon Without a Military Escort

Faith: Trial of Gideon, when Commanded to Deliver Israel

Faith: Trial of in the Tempest at Sea

Faith: Trial of Job, by Affliction and Adversity

Faith: Trial of Joshua and the People of Israel, in the Method of Taking Jericho

Faith: Trial of Moses, at the Red Sea, by the Complaints of the People

Faith: Trial of Moses, when Sent to Pharaoh

Faith: Trial of Noah

Faith: Trial of of Peter, when Asked Whether he Loved Jesus

Faith: Trial of of Philip, when Questioned by Jesus As to How the Multitude Would be Fed

Faith: Trial of The Disciples, when Jesus Came Walking Upon the Sea of Galilee

Faith: Trial of The Syrophoenician Woman

Faith: Trial of The Three Hebrews, when Commanded to Worship the Image

Faith: Trial of The Two Blind Men Who Appealed to Jesus for Sight

Faith: Trial of, Works Patience

Faith: True, Evidenced by Its Fruits

Faith: Whatever is not of, is Sin

Faith: when Aaron Declared the Mission of Himself and Moses

Faith: Widow of Zarephath in Feeding Elijah

Faith: Woman Who Was a Sinner

Faith: Works by Love

Related Terms

Faith-righteousness (2 Occurrences)

Based (40 Occurrences)

Actions (62 Occurrences)

Assurance (16 Occurrences)

Schoolmaster (3 Occurrences)

Steadfastness (15 Occurrences)

Credited (19 Occurrences)

Access (9 Occurrences)

Author (5 Occurrences)

Strengthened (113 Occurrences)

Credit (39 Occurrences)

Confession (22 Occurrences)

Basis (21 Occurrences)

Circumcised (58 Occurrences)

Apostate (5 Occurrences)

Apostasy (6 Occurrences)

Sorts (65 Occurrences)

Abraham's (34 Occurrences)

Baptismal (1 Occurrence)

Scriptures (25 Occurrences)

Simply (27 Occurrences)

Charity (29 Occurrences)

Cured (62 Occurrences)

Believers (50 Occurrences)

Value (138 Occurrences)

Conduct (93 Occurrences)

Catholic

Accordance (118 Occurrences)

Stronger (59 Occurrences)

Sincere (18 Occurrences)

Spreading (74 Occurrences)

Courage (74 Occurrences)

Breastplate (45 Occurrences)

Verily (146 Occurrences)

Substance (99 Occurrences)

Afterwards (143 Occurrences)

Condemned (49 Occurrences)

Conscious (93 Occurrences)

Solemnly (62 Occurrences)

Cheer (22 Occurrences)

Abel (22 Occurrences)

Saved (183 Occurrences)

Sins (351 Occurrences)

Creeds

Adoption (5 Occurrences)

Vain (141 Occurrences)

Apostles'

Quiet (167 Occurrences)

Sarah (38 Occurrences)

Verity (2 Occurrences)

Common (118 Occurrences)

Scripture (51 Occurrences)

Void (64 Occurrences)

Contrite (5 Occurrences)

Contrition (1 Occurrence)

Conviction (10 Occurrences)

Causing (248 Occurrences)

Convinced (26 Occurrences)

Allows (7 Occurrences)

Accounted (32 Occurrences)

Acquitted (24 Occurrences)

Arises (21 Occurrences)

Adherents (5 Occurrences)

Acceptance (24 Occurrences)

Accepted (82 Occurrences)

Afflictions (24 Occurrences)

Surprised (46 Occurrences)

Striving (33 Occurrences)

Soundness (6 Occurrences)

Sober (18 Occurrences)

Specially (26 Occurrences)

Saving (37 Occurrences)

Strengthen (105 Occurrences)

Strive (64 Occurrences)

Serious (31 Occurrences)

Amen (74 Occurrences)

Ages (114 Occurrences)

Aim (17 Occurrences)

Yea (867 Occurrences)

Faith by It Saints: Obtain a Good Report
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