If We Desire Our Faith To Be

Only Let It Be Trust In God, Not In Man, Not In Circumstances, Not In Any Of Your Own Exertions, But Real Trust In God, And You Will Be Helped In Your Various Necessities... Not In Circumstances, Not In Natural Prospects, Not In Former Donors, But Solely In God. This Is Just That Which Brings The Blessing. If We Say We Trust In Him, But In Reality Do Not, Then God, Taking Us At Our Word, Lets Us See That We Do Not Really Confide In Him; And Hence Failure Arises. On The Other Hand, If Our Trust In The Lord Is Real, Help Will Surely Come.

A Brother With Small Earnings May Ask,''should I Also Give? My Earning Are Already So Small That My Family Can Barely Make Ends Meet.'' My Reply Is, ''have You Ever Considered That The Very Reason Your Earnings Remain So Small May Be Because You Spend Everything On Yourself? If God Gave You More, You Would Only Use It To Increase Your Own Comfort Instead Of Looking To See Who Is Sick Or Who Has No Work At All That You Might Help Them.

Now What Is Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God; And Here Again, Not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Passes Through A Pipe, But Considering What We Read, Pondering It Over And Applying It To Our Hearts.

When Sight Ceases, It Is The Time For Faith To Work. The Greater The Difficulties, The Easier It Is For Faith. As Long As Human Possibilities For Success Remain, Faith Does Not Accomplish Things As Easily As When All Natural Prospects Fail.

In Order To Enjoy The Word, We Ought To Continue To Read It, And The Way To Obtain A Spirit Of Prayer, Is, To Continue Praying; For The Less We Read The Word Of God, The Less We Desire To Read It, And The Less We Pray, The Less We Desire To Pray.