Faith

Some time back my brother gave me his copy of The Complete Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford. I had read through it several years ago and picked it up every now and then to read a section or two. A few weeks back I was meeting with several pastors and one of them said that in their reading if they read an new book they will follow it up by an old book that has been tried and tested. And they went on to say how they had been reading the Principles of Spiritual Growth which which is an updated copy of the previous book. Anyways I was challenged to begin reading the book again, and have not been let down. Check out a few of these excerpts.

"Many people are willing to believe regarding those things that seem probable to them. Faith has nothing to do with probabilities. The providence of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail. Appearances are not to be taken into account. The question is--whether God has spoken it in his word." Mueller

"Faith must be based upon certainty. There must be a definite knowledge if God's purpose and will. Without it there can be no true faith. For faith is not a force that we exercise or a striving to believe that something shall be, thinking that if we believe hard enough is twill com to pass." Alexander R. Hay

"It is a great thing to learn faith: that is, simply dependence upon God. It will comfort you much to be assured that the Lord is teaching you dependence upon Himself, and it is very remarkable that faith is necessary in everything." J.B. Stoney