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FAITH & TRUST / FEAR & WORRY / DOUBT & UNBELIEFRELATED INDEX TOPICS: Answered Prayer, Communion with God, Contentment, Doubt,Positiveness, Peace, Testimonies of Faith.
1. An old Scotsman operated a little rowboat for transporting passengers. One day a passenger noticed that the good old man had carved on one oar the word "Faith," & on the other oar the word"Works." Curiosity led him to ask the meaning of this. The old man, being a well-balanced Christian & gladof the opportunity for testimony, said, "I will show you."So saying, he dropped one oar & plied the other called Works, & they just went around in circles.Then he dropped that oar & began to ply the oar called Faith, & the little boat just went around in circlesagain--this time the other way around, but still in a circle.After this demonstration the old man picked up Faith & Works, & plying both oars together, spedswiftly over the water, explaining to his inquiring passenger, "You see, that is the way it is in the Christianlife. Dead works without faith are useless, & 'faith without works is dead' also, getting you nowhere. Butfaith & works pulling together make for safety, progress, & blessing."2. Let us not rebel against delay. We must not steal tomorrow out of God's hands. God is never toolate. He is always right on time.3. When Hudson Taylor, the famous missionary, first went to China, it was in a sailing vessel. Veryclose to the shore of cannibal islands the ship was becalmed, & it was slowly drifting shoreward unable togo about & the savages were eagerly anticipating a feast.The captain came to Mr. Taylor & besought him to pray for the help of God. "I will," said Taylor,"provided you set your sails to catch the breeze." The captain declined to make himself a laughing stock byunfurling in a dead calm. Taylor said, "I will not undertake to pray for the vessel unless you will prepare thesails." And it was done.While engaged in prayer, there was a knock at the door of his stateroom. "Who is there?"The captain's voice responded, "Are you still praying for wind?""Yes.""Well," said the captain, "you'd better stop praying, for we have more wind than we can manage."4. Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, & receives the impossible.5. Faith is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, & bear the intolerable.6. Faith is idle when circumstances are right, only when they are adverse is one's faith in Godexercised. Faith, like muscle, grows strong & supple with exercise.
 
7. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.8. Thy Will be done. No greater words than theseCan pass from human lips, than these which rentTheir way through agony & bloody sweat,And broke the silence of GethsemeneTo save the World from sin.--G.A. Studdert-Kennedy9. Sometimes I'm sad, I know not whyMy heart is sore distressed;It seems the burdens of this WorldHave settled on my heart.And yet I know ... I know that GodWho doeth all things rightWill lead me thus to understandTo walk by FAITH ... not SIGHT.And though I may not see the wayHe's planned for me to go...The way seems dark to me just now.But oh, I'm sure He knows!Today He guides my feeble stepTomorrow's in His right ...He has asked me to never fear ...But walk by FAITH ... not SIGHT.Some day the mists will roll away.The sun will shine again.I'll see the beauty in the flowers.I'll hear the bird's refrain.And then I'll know my Father's handHas led the way to lightBecause I placed my hand in HisAnd walked by FAITH ... not SIGHT.--Ruth A. Morgan10. In 1856, David Livingstone faced a grave peril in Africa. He was passing through the wildcountry of the native chief Mburuma. The chief was hostile & had been seeking to rouse the countrysideagainst the man's expedition. Reports had been that he was seen creeping toward the camp!Alone in his tent, Livingstone opened his Bible & read the Promise on which he had staked his lifeso often. Then he wrote in his diary,"January 14, 1856. Evening. Felt much turmoil of spirit in prospect of having all my plans for welfare of this great region knocked on the head by savages tomorrow. But Jesus said, 'All power is givenunto Me in Heaven & in Earth. Go ye therefore & teach all nations ... & lo I am with you alway, even untothe end of the world.'"This is the word of a Gentleman of the most strict & sacred honour, so that's the end of fear. I willnot cross furtively tonight as I intended. Nay, verily, I shall take observations for latitude & longitudetonight, though they may be the last, I feel quiet & calm now, thank God!"11. A coloured church congregation had met to pray for rain to release a long dry spell. The preacher looked severely at his flock & said, "Brothers & sisters, you'll knows why we is here. Now what Iwants to know is--where is yo' umbrellas?"
 
12. A little faith will bring your soul to Heaven; a great faith will bring Heaven to your soul.13. Where reason cannot wade, there faith may swim.14. Faith does the same against the Devil as unbelief does against God.15. A little lad was keeping his sheep one Sunday morning. The bells were ringing for church, &the people were going over the field, when the little fellow began to think that he, too, would like to pray toGod. But what could he say? He had never learned a prayer. So he knelt down & commenced the alphabet--A, B, C, & so on to Z.A gentleman happening to pass on the other side of the hedge heard the lad's voice, &, lookingthrough the bushes, saw the little fellow kneeling with folded hands & closed eyes, saying, "A, B, C.""What are you doing, my little man?" "Please, sir, I was praying." "But what are you saying your letters for?""Why, I didn't know any prayer, only I felt that I wanted God to take care of me & help me to carefor the sheep; so I thought if I said all I knew, he would put it together & spell all I want.""Bless your heart, my little man, He will, He will, He will. When the heart speaks right, the lipscan't say wrong."16. Hannah Whithall Smith tells about a man sliding down a rope into a well. He supposed therope to be of ample length, but to his dismay he reached the end of it without touching the bottom of thewell with his feet. He tried in vain to climb up the rope, & dared not let go for fear of being dashed to pieces. He held on as long as he could, & when utterly exhausted let the rope slip from his grasp. He fell-- just three inches!17. Faith in God is indispensable to successful statesmanship.18. The southern tip of Africa used to be called "Cape of Tempests." Its swirling seas &continuously adverse weather conditions caused sailors great anxiety & took many lives. But a certainPortuguese, determined to find a safer route through those seas to the renowned Land of Cathay, discovereda safer passage round this promontory. And the area was renamed the "Cape of Good Hope."19. True patience means "waiting without worrying."20. You will never learn faith in comfortable surroundings.21. In a cellar in Cologne, Germany after WW2 were found these words on the wall:I BELIEVE ...I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining;I believe in love, even when I feel it not;I believe in God, even when He is silent.22. I learned to swim in boyhood, but it was only this summer that I achieved complete mastery of myself in the water. For 30 years I had assumed that I must constantly struggle to keep from sinking.One day an expert swimmer watched me for a few minutes & then cried: "Stop fighting the water & trust it to hold you up. Use your strength & get somewhere."Under his direction, a few moments sufficed to convince me he was right. I lay flat in the water without moving hands or feet & to my delight, it held me up. Then I struck out, using my strength to forgeahead. What a revelation! Why did not someone tell me that years ago?So many constantly struggle to be Christians, when if they would only trust Christ they would bekept.23. George W. Boschke was the famous engineer who built the gigantic sea wall to protect
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