Friends:

Faith has 2 main Components: Devotion & Belief!

 

The two components of Faith (saddha):
1: An affective emotional component pouring from the heart
as devotion: One Trusts!

2: A cognitive component residing in the intellect as a fixed
view or opinion: One Believes!

Initiation, Evolution, Maturation and Culmination of Faith:

Both are necessary for initiating spiritual praxis and mental

training. Both are, by the effects of this praxis and training
later replaced, yet also reinforced, by direct experience:
One Knows!

The Faith has thus gradually evolved and grown strong into
first Confidence and later, when validated and verified into
persuaded Conviction.

The ability of Faith initiates as seed the ability of Energy,

which repeatedly trains the ability of Awareness, which then

purifies the ability of Concentration, which then enables the
ability of Understanding to penetrate into real progress...

When unshakable these 5 abilities have become powers!

Replacement and reinforcement by Direct Experience:
The confident Noble Disciple having repeatedly trained so,
having repeatedly been aware so, having repeatedly worked
on concentration so, and having repeatedly understood so,
by that therefore becomes fully confident in those states,

which were previously only heard of or known from reading:
Now I dwell having directly experienced them with my own
body and having fully penetrated them by understanding:
I see them through! Samyutta Nikaya V:226

The Fruit of Faith: Entering the Stream to Awakening!

Hereafter is Faith never more needed as Sceptical Doubt

have been irreversibly eradicated. One has thus entered
the Stream leading to Awakening with Enlightenment as
assured destination within max. 7 lives: And yet another
Noble has been born by emerging out of the egg of Faith!
The shell of Ignorance has been broken...

A Learner is going the few final rounds...

Smiling as smelling freed peace & bliss...

The Battle with Mara has begun. Yeah!