Your Faith Will Be Tested

James 1:2-4 KJV

2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Hebrews 6:12-15 KJV

12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through FAITH and PATIENCE inherit the promises.

13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Hebrews 10:32 KJV

32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, AFTER YE WERE ILLUMINATED, YE ENDURED A GREAT FIGHT OF AFFLICTIONS;

ILLUMINATED: to cause something to exist and thus come to light and become clear to all. To instruct, to inform, to teach, to give understanding.

ENDURED: to persevere: under misfortunes and trials, to hold fast to one’s faith in Christ. To endure, bear bravely and calmly: ill treatments.

AFFLICTIONS: externally, a suffering, misfortune, calamity, evil, affliction, also the afflictions which Christians must undergo in behalf of the same cause which Christ patiently endured.

Hebrews 10:35-36 KJV

35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Genesis 26:1-6,12-14 KJV

1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.