Faith

Faith is that trust which does not ask to know all about God, but believes all that God has said; it is that belief which is the sole condition of salvation (Acts 16:30), 31), the belief which receives Christ as Savior and Lord (John 1:12), and takes the form of confessing with the mouth while believing in the heart (Rom. 10:9,10), influencing the saved to humble and loving obedience and meritorious works (James 2:14-26). The faith of salvation is the complete trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as having been “delivered for our transgressions and raised again for our justification” (Rom 4:20-25), entirely aside form works. By faith God gives the soul assurance and conviction of the reality of things never yet seen by the natural eye (Heb. 11:1-3).
The triumphs of faith in the daily life marvelously illustrated for the believer in Hebrews 11:1-39). For prayer, the believer is to “come boldly to the throne of grace” (Heb. 4:16), where faith is “the confidence in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us…and we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” (I John 5:14,15). Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. 10:17).