What a powerful force true faith is! This chapter is devoted to recording its exploits and glories. Its Definition. Verse 1. "Faith is a confidence respecting things hoped for; it is a conviction respecting things not seen." Its Accomplishments. Listed in the rest of the chapter. Its Practicality. It is seen at work in a great variety of circumstances, bringing deliverance and benefits to those who exercise it. Shepherds tents, verse 8, and kings palaces, verse 22, 24, 32. What a variety of individuals have possessed it. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, a harlot, 8, 31. The variety of places where it has work. Battlefields, 33-34; lion's den, place of prayer, prisons and caves verses 36-37. One of the chief accomplishments in Moses, life is stated in our text -- deliverance from judgment.