God knows when we do the right things for the wrong reasons! Outwardly we can appear to be very
committed to God, but inwardly we can be very far away from Him.
‘All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes but the Lord weighs the spirits’ Proverbs 16:2.
Moses was faithful in God’s entire house (Numbers 12:7 and Hebrews 3:2, 5).
David was a faithful priest to God and a faithful son-in-law to King Saul, not that Saul appreciated it (1 Samuel 2:35 and 1 Samuel 22:14).
Samuel even as a child ministering before God was considered faithful (1 Samuel 2:26, 1 Samuel 3:1-20 and Jeremiah 15:1).
Hanani and Hananiah both became the leaders in Jerusalem because they were faithful and feared God more than many (Nehemiah 7:2).
Nehemiah appointed various people as treasurers to distribute money to the Levites as they were all considered faithful (Nehemiah 13:13).
‘A faithful ambassador brings health’ Proverbs 13:17.
Isaiah had two faithful witnesses to record events and to act as scribes (Isaiah 8:2).
Daniel was found faithful even when his enemies tried to find some charge against him, but no error or fault was found in him (Daniel 6:4).
Lydia a new convert offered herself as faithful so Paul and Timothy stayed at her house along with her household (Acts 16:14-15).
Paul sent Timothy who was faithful to the Lord and his beloved son (in the Lord) to help teach the Corinthians and to remind them of Christ’s ways (1 Corinthians 4:17).
‘To the saints who are in Ephesus faithful in Christ Jesus’ Ephesians 1:1.
Tychicus a faithful minister in the Lord went to the Ephesians and to the Colossian church to inform them of
Paul’s situation (Ephesians 6:21 and Colossians 4:7).
‘To the faithful brethren in Christ who are in Colosse’ Colossians 1:2.
Epaphras was a dear fellow servant and faithful minister who went to visit the apostle Paul on behalf of the Colossian church (Colossians 1:7-8).
Onesimus, Philemon’s former runaway slave, was a faithful and beloved brother who went to Colosse to inform the Colossian church about Paul (Colossians 4:9).
God considered Paul to be faithful and put him in the ministry (1 Timothy 1:12).
Christ Jesus was faithful over his own house and a faithful witness, the first-born from the dead and is the ruler over all the kings (Hebrews 3:6 and Revelation 1:5).
Some believers suffer according to the will of God who is the faithful Creator (1 Peter 4:19).
Silvanus was considered a faithful brother (1 Peter 5:12).
Antipas was a faithful martyr among the church at Pergamos (Revelation 2:13).