Morning, March 19
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“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 Let that angel be withdrawn, we can neither send up prayer,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 heaven—on 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 defence. 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 Sea—expect 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.”