The only way that you can ever please God is by faith. Abiding faith is God working in you what is well-pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ. But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is (Hebrews 11:6).
If your faith abides, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three (1 Corinthians 13:13). We receive abiding faith from God the Father, through the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. It is faith in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and was raised from the dead. The Spirit of grace enables you to believe the gospel of Christ with faith that abides.
If your faith abides, it is not just mental assent or human effort. The Holy Spirit must bring you to a point of confidence, assurance, and trust in the living Christ. It's abiding faith that the world didn't give you, and the world can't take it away. Faith pleases God, the very gift of faith that He works in you. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).
If your faith abides, it is one of the three abiding gifts of the Holy Spirit. The grace of God enables you to have faith that abides. For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8). The Spirit of God, through the word of God, gives you faith that abides (Romans 10:17).
