Strong In Faith
By Charles H. Spurgeon
'Strong in faith.'Romans 4:20
Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way
whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God nothing
can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers, from
God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of the man who believes.Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.
Let that angel be withdrawn, we can neither send up prayer, nor receive the
answers. Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth and heavenon which
God's messages of love fly so fast, that before we call He answers, and while
we are yet speaking He hears us. But if that telegraphic wire of faith be
snapped, how can we receive the promise?Am I in trouble? I can obtain help for trouble by faith. Am I beaten about
by the enemy? My soul on her dear Refuge leans by faith. But take faith
away -- in vain I call to God. There is no road betwixt my soul and heaven.
In the deepest wintertime, faith is a road on which the horses of prayer may
travel -- aye, and all the better for the biting frost; but blockade the road, and
how can we communicate with the Great King?Faith links me with divinity. Faith clothes me with the power of God. Faith
engages on my side the omnipotence of Jehovah. Faith ensures every attribute
of God in my defense. It helps me to defy the hosts of hell. It makes me march
triumphant over the necks of my enemies. But without faith how can I receive
anything of the Lord? Let not him that wavereth - who is like a wave of the
seaexpect that he will receive anything of God!O, then, Christian, watch well thy faith; for with it thou canst win all things,
however poor thou art, but without it thou canst obtain nothing. 'If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.'
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Yours in Christ
Paul N. F.