Your Word is a Lamp....

Genesis 15: After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”                                                                         4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”   5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”  6 And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.  Already the Lord is directing Abram not to look within himself but outward, upward and forward - to the promised Seed - and all who will come to faith through Him  To believe (have

Concerning the Object and Subject of Faith… 1John 5:4 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.  Faith in what?  Faith in our words..?  Faith in our faith ..? John 16:33 I have said these things to you, that in ME you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world .” So whoever is born of God (John 3:3) overcomes the world because Christ overcame it first : Through Jesus’s vicarious death on the Cross, we now have everything we need that pertains to Life - everlasting Life. This is what deep down, everyone longs for - and it is only obtainable One Way (John 14:5-6).  Here is the object of our Faith : Jesus Christ and Him crucified ! (there is NOTHING else - and nothing else is needed) 1John 5:5 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? John 6:28-29 John 14:1-3