101 Faith Notes

Scriptures and Meditations on God’s Promises

Written by Pauline Creeden

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Scripture quotations marked AMP are taken from the AMPLIFIED BIBLE Copyright ©1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by the Lockman foundation.

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About the Author: Pauline Creeden is an avid reader, reviewer, and writer. When she is not training horses and riders for the show ring, she reviews for Thomas Nelson Publishers, Amazon.com, Tyndale, Zondervan, and many others. Her articles have been published in Christian Magazines, and on her blogs. The quotes throughout this text are portions of those articles.

Acknowledgements and Note from the Author
: Thank you to my husband for his continued support and love for me. I have to thank my friends at Christian Writers and CIAindie, without your encouragement and advice, this book would never have been published. Finally, thank you reader for taking the time to pick up this book.
It is my hope that you will be blessed with a deeper understanding and relationship with your Jesus.

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CHRISTIAN

1. One of the common misconceptions about Christians is that once you’ve been covered by Christ, you no longer sin or make bad decisions. But that’s not true. The difference is that when we fall down into the pit of sin, we don’t stay there. Christians get up and get going again.

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2. For though the righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity (Proverbs 24:16)

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3. No matter how far away from the Master we have wondered away, He will search for us and call us until His work is complete.

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4. Being confident in this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:6)

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5. You have to think differently, and agree with God that what you have been doing is sin. It does not matter whether you were willful in your sin or if you sinned “accidently” – the response to the knowledge of the sin must be the same: repent.

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6. The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least put on sackcloth. (Jonah 3:5)

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7. The first step in repentance is to agree with God that you have sinned and stop reasoning with yourself that you are okay; that what you’re doing is not sin.

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8. If we confess our sins, He is
faith
ful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
(1 John 1:9)

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9.
Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who
believe
d in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)

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10. Unfortunately sin has this addictive quality to it. Once you start, it becomes so hard to quit. This is why God tries to teach us what we should avoid, calling it sin, so that we never have to learn to quit.

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11. Through Him everyone who
believe
s is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. (Acts 13:39)

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12. Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26)

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13. Is your problem bigger than the Earth, or more impossible to break than the creation of it? If God is powerful enough to create the heavens and the earth, isn’t He powerful enough to help you overcome your sin?

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14. Ah Sovereign LORD, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for You. (Jeremiah 32:17)

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15. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 1:18-20)

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16. A person born to Christian parents is not a Christian - he is a heathen. Although he would like to claim a heritage, a heritage will not give him heaven.

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17. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder. (James 2:19)

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18. Anyone can say that he believes Jesus came to earth and died on a cross, he can even believe that Jesus was resurrected - but these are only historical facts and they cannot save him. And they do not make him a true Christian.

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19.
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and
believe
in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you
believe
and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)

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20. If you have to see before you believe, than you can’t call that faith. Faith is given before the miraculous event takes place, every single time.

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21. Now
faith
is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1)

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22. Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have
believe
d; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have
believe
d.” (John 20:29)

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23. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who
believe
s that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:5)

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24. Believing is seeing. The act of believing is an interior motive. It is what causes something to be true or false at least in our own minds.

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25.
For we live by
faith
, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

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26. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you
believe
in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy. (1 Peter 1:8)

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27. God is not some distant, far-away, absentee father. No, He is present, He cares, and He doesn’t want you to worry.

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28. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You
believe
in God ;
believe
also in me. (John 14:1)

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29. Adversity and loss can often become the rudder by which our life is steered to come closer to God. We re-prioritize and discover what really has importance, and what remains shallow and unworthy of our time and energies.

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30. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have
believe
d, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day. (2 Timothy 1:12)

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31. We cannot be separated from God’s Love, from Heaven, from His salvation, from being His child and heir. Not even LIFE. Life cannot separate us from it anymore than death can.

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32. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 8:38-39)

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33.
Notice that your hairs are numbered. I don’t know about you, but every day I shed hairs. This means that God cares enough to know how many hairs are on my head today, because the number is different than yesterday!

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34. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. (Matthew 10:30)

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