Your faith must be:

1.      Personal (MAT 9:29).

2.      Seen (MAT 9:2, MAR 2:5)

3.      Heard (PHM 5, EPH 1:15, COL 1:4)

4.      Obeyed (ACT 6:7, ROM 1:5)

5.      Continued in (ACT 14:22, COL 1:23)

6.      Increased (2CO 10:15)

7.      Perfected (1TH 3:10)

8.      Followed (2TI 2:22)

9.      Made sound (TIT 1:13, 2:2)

10.   Examined (2CO 13:5)

11.   Tried or Tested (JAM 1:3, 1PE 1:7, 5:9)

12.   Kept (2TI 4:7)

13.   Lived in (ROM 1:17)

14.   Died in (HEB 11:13)

Seven ways God visits us:

1. Coming Himself (Dan 7:9-14)

2. Sending Christ (Isa 48:16; Joh 3:16)

3. The Holy Spirit (Joh 16:7)

4. Angels (Heb 1:14)

5. Prophets (Act 3:21; Heb 1:1)

6. Dreams and visions (Dan 2:28; 4:1-7; 7:1; 8:1)

7. His Word (2Ti 3:16; Heb 4:12)

God commands all to have faith

JOH 14:1     Believe in God believe also in Me. 

MAR 11:22  Have faith in God.

JOH 20:27   Be not faithless but believing.

1TI 6:12       Fight the good fight of faith.

2CO 5:7       Live by faith not by sight.    

ROM 1:17    The just will live by faith (3 times in NT).

GAL 2:20     The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.