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Let that angel be withdrawn, we can neither send up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."