Faithfulness

About this study

The KJV says "faith" but the same Greek word pistis is also "faithfulness" — and in this list it's the latter. Not the belief that lives in your head, but the reliability that lives in your bones.

This is God's own covenant character planted as fruit. His faithfulness becoming yours. Jeremiah lamenting in the ruins of Jerusalem still writes: "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."

This study walks through pistis, Hebrew emunah, the faithfulness of God in covenant from Abraham forward, Jesus as the Faithful Witness, and how Holy Spirit grows this fruit in the believer through small, daily fidelity.

For the believer tired of unfinished projects. For the spouse who wants to keep promises they made. For the disciple ready to stop flaking.

The twelve parts

1. Opening reflection
2. Word study — pistis
3. Why this fruit matters
4. Anchor passages
5. Old Testament examples
6. Jesus, the living definition
7. Holy Spirit's role
8. Counterfeits and barriers
9. Cultivating this fruit
10. Reflection questions
11. Key Scriptures to meditate on
12. A guided prayer + going deeper

"His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant." — Matthew 25:21