Faith & Trust
A great many Christians are slaves to the habit of doubting.
It means to have no life but His life, to have no will but His will, to have no interests but His interests, to share His riches, to enter into His joys, to partake of His sorrows, to manifest His life, to have the same mind as He had.
God, the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, is not a far-off Deity.
Oneness with Christ must, in the very nature of things, consist in a Christ-like life and character.
Every advancing soul must come sooner or later to the place where it can trust God, the bare God, if I may be allowed the expression, simply and only because of what He is in Himself.
If God be for us, it matters not who may be against us; nothing can disturb or harm us, except He shall see that it is best for us.
God’s works are perfect in every stage of their growth. Man’s works are never perfect until they are in every respect complete.
God’s promise is, that He will work in us to will as well as to do of His good pleasure. This, of course, means that He will take possession of our will, and work it for us.
You have trusted Him as your dying Saviour, now trust Him as your living Saviour. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment, did He also come to deliver you from present bondage.
Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.
It is grand to trust in the promises, but it is grander still to trust in the Promiser.
It is a life and walk of faith we have entered upon, and if we fail in it our only recovery must lie in an increase of faith, not in a lessening of it.
God’s invariable rule is faith first and feeling second, in everything.
His creative power is expressed differently in each one of us. And in the individual ‘make-up’ which sometimes so troubles us, there is a manifestation of this power.
When we avouch the Lord to be our God, and that we will walk in His ways and keep His commandments, He avouches us to be His, and that we shall keep all His commandments; and from that moment He takes possession of us.
Doubts are all from the devil, and are always untrue. And the only way to meet them is by a direct and emphatic denial.
Earth’s chariots are always visible, but God’s chariots are invisible.
Faith is the plainest and most simple thing in the world, and the most easy of attainment.
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