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Job 2:10
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed
accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his
lips.

The man or woman of faith is one who maintains their confidence in the character
of God, and His love for them, when all around them seems to be testifying very
different things. Such men and women are not walking by sight, but by faith. Paul
practiced this in the same way as Job, and he wrote these words for us:

II Corinthians 5:7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Our faith in the character of God stands apart from what our senses report to us.
Faith comes to us by the Spirit of God, as Paul also wrote:

Romans 12:3
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more
highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment,
as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

I Corinthians 12:7-9
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to
one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of
knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit...

Faith is a gift of God, as Paul further confirmed to the Ephesian believers.

Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that (referring to faith) not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

The understanding that man’s faith is a gift from God is manifested throughout
Scripture. When Yahshua asked His disciples who they thought He was, Peter
confessed that He was the Christ, the Son of God. Yahshua told Peter that this
understanding of his did not come through his natural senses, but from God.

Matthew 16:17
And Yahshua said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and
blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.”