10-Fold Power of Faith

Sunday, Sept 4, 2011
Pentecostal Church, Sanjaynagar

Jesus said that if you had faith like a mustard seed, you would tell a mountain to be removed and cast into the sea and it would obey. Faith has tremendous power; but, faith unrelated to truth is blind and false. At the same time, truth that is not believed in is ineffective. Faith also must be obeyed through works, or else it is dead. Faith combined with truth and works has great power.

1. Faith has SAVING power (Acts 16:31; Rom.1:16)
2. Faith has PURIFYING power (Acts 15:9)
3. Faith gives power for LIVING (Gal.2:20; Rom.1:17)
4. Faith has PRAYING power (Mt.21:22; Jas.5:15)
5. Faith has OVERCOMING power (1Jn.4:4,5)
6. Faith has HEALING & MIRACLE-WORKING power (Jas.5:15; Matt.9:28)
7. Faith has PROTECTING power (Eph.6:16)
8. Faith has PRESERVING power (1Pet.1:5)
9. Faith has UPBUILDING power (Jude 20)
10. Faith has UNITING power (Ep.4:13)

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