Your faith in God for today and your hope in God for the future are gifts of the Spirit. God not only makes sure promises in the Bible, but the Holy Spirit gives you the faith and hope to rest in those promises. Faith and hope are gifts of God's Spirit in your heart.
Faith and hope always comes with God's greatest gift from the Holy Spirit which is love. God's everlasting love makes the believer's hope sure. God loves His children with an everlasting love that is faithful and true. Our personal relationship with God is based upon these three gifts of the Spirit. Love is the assurance of faith and hope.
"Now abide faith, hope, and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love"(1 Corinthians 13:13). There are many more gifts of the Spirit, but these three are for everyone who is born of the Spirit. The absolute assurance of your new birth is these three gifts of the Spirit. Now they abide in you. They are not temporary gifts.
The three abiding gifts of the Spirit are focused upon the Lord Jesus Christ. We are saved by faith in Christ, based upon the gospel(1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Our blessed hope is in Christ, looking for his appearing and our glorification (Romans 8:30; 1 John 3:2). God's love in Christ fills our hearts (Romans 5:5; 5:8)."We love him because he first loved us"(1 John 4:19).
