HOW STRONG ARE WE

WORD OF WISDOM
FAITH ~ The object of saving faith is the whole revealed Word of God. Faith accepts and believes it as the very truth most sure. But the special act of faith which unites to Christ has as its object the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 7:38; Acts 16:31). This is the specific act of faith by which a sinner is justified before God (Romans 3:22, 25; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9; John 3:16-36; Acts 10:43; 16:31). In this act of faith the believer appropriates and rests on Christ alone as Mediator in all his offices.

Source: Easton's Bible Dictionary

Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

"Christ can and will do anything for those that believe in him. To impress this still more, He redoubles upon the believing: "If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth." Thus the Lord helps the birth of faith in our struggling soul; and now, though with pain and much travail, it comes to the birth. Very much is promised to our believing. If thou canst believe, it is possible that our hard heart may be softened, our spiritual diseases may be cured; and, weak as we are, we may be able to hold out to the end.

All things can be effected or accomplished by God in favour of him that believes; and if we can believe, this will be done. God will do nothing in our favour without faith. It is right that we should have confidence in him; and if we have confidence, it is easy for Him to help us, and He willingly does it. He will make all things easy for us.

'You ask me,' says He, 'to aid you as far as I can; but you will find in Me an inexhaustible fountain of power, provided that the faith which you bring be sufficiently large.' Here may be learned a useful doctrine, which will apply equally to all of us, that it is not the Lord that prevents His benefits from flowing to us in large abundance, but that it must be attributed to the narrowness of our faith, that it comes to us only in drops, and that frequently we do not feel even a drop, because unbelief shuts up our heart.

Faith is mightiest of the mighty. It is the monarch of the realms of the mind; there is no being superior to its strength, no creature which will not bow to its divine prowess. The want of faith makes a man despicable, it shrivels him up so small that he might live in a nutshell. Give him faith, and he is a leviathan that can dive into the depths of the sea; he is a war horse, that cries, aha! aha! in the battle; he is a giant who takes nations and crumbles them in his hand, who encounters hosts, and at a sword they vanish; he binds up sheaves of sceptres, and gathers up all the crowns at his own. There is nothing like faith, sirs. Faith makes you almost as omnipotent as God, by the borrowed might of its divinity. Give us faith and we can do all things.

Dare we believe? Are we willing to put our all in the hands of Christ? To put all our spiritual concerns with Him, and all our temporal concerns for him? Can we find in our heart to do this? If so, it is not impossible but that, though we had been a great sinner, we may be reconciled; though we are very mean and unworthy, we may get to heaven." Charles Spurgeon

God's Blessings to each of you,
LJG/rECj