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“We are
bound to thank God always for you, brethren…because that your faith
growth exceedingly…” II Thess. 1:3
How to Increase Faith : (Taken from
Divine Healing by J. Grant Anderson)
“Our faith will increase as we meditate upon the power, wisdom, and
compassion of God and of Christ. It was said of a certain class that
their faith grew exceedingly. We should be thankful that it can
expand; that if our faith is weak today it may become stronger
tomorrow. As the power to analyze becomes stronger, and as the
muscles of the arm grow more powerful through use, so faith
increases through exercise.
Faith in an automobile is based upon its ability to pull what is
supposed to pull in climbing a hill. Stability in business is based
on such things as banks doing business for a period of fifty years
and never becoming insolvent, the integrity of servants - employees
who are always on hand and who never falsify. We have faith in the
person whose religion and conduct walks hand in hand year after
year.
It is not hard to believe, mathematically, that the square root of
the sum of the squares of the base and the perpendicular equals the
hypotenuse; or the laws in physics that gravitation pulls, fire
burns, and water wets. It is not difficult, historically, to believe
that Columbus discovered America in 1492, or geographically, that
Cuba is an island in the Atlantic Ocean….
Why can
not we believe the Word of God? The promises of men sometimes are
not fulfilled, the automobile might refuse to pull, the bank might
fail after fifty years, but the promises of God have never been
known to fail - not once in all history has one promise failed that
the Lord has made." |
