Believing... ye shall receive

'These recorded instances of the exercise and reward of faith, give us easily to see that, in almost every instance, faith was blended with trust until it is not too much to say that the former was swallowed up in the latter. It is hard to properly distinguish the specific activities of these two qualities, faith and trust. But there is a point, beyond all peradventure, at which faith is relieved of its burden, so to speak; where trust comes

along and says: "You have done your part, the rest is mine!"

In the incident of the barren fig tree, our Lord transfers the marvelous power of faith to His disciples. To their exclamation, "How soon is the fig tree withered alway!" He said:

"If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive."

When a Christian believer attains to faith of such magnificent proportions as these, he steps into the realm of implicit trust. He stands without a tremor on the apex of his spiritual outreaching. He has attained faith's veritable top stone which is unswerving, unalterable, unalienable trust in the power of the living God.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 25)

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If we have faith… in prayer.

Faith in our GOD to do ALL that must be done so HIS will can be done in our lives!

This--

'But there is a point, beyond all peradventure, at which faith is relieved of its burden, so to speak; where trust comes along and says: "You have done your part, the rest is mine!'

This is truth! 

Faith-trust.

Belief.

Knowing.

Realizing.

Unquestioning God's will.  Asking for intercession believing that HE will hear and all that follows is a result of His hearing and answering according to HIS will- not ours!

If we ask and the result is NOT immediate  even if it's needed immediately, the answer is GOD'S and we MUST believe  NO matter how AWFUL our situation, that somehow it is for the good, somehow BEYOND our comprehension but NOT beyond our God's comprehension!

We have to BELIEVE- we do NOT have to comprehend all the things of God.

Deu_29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

God doesn't have to give us explanations! When we demand explanations from each other, we want people to explain their reasonings to us, we want to UNDERSTAND, we don't want to be left in the dark. So we want God to explain as well. We want to UNDERSTAND and when something defies our comprehension we do not like it at all. 

Faith.

We pray and believe.

We must believe .

Please, Lord, help our UNBELIEF! Rid us of our unbelief!

Help us as we pray, without You our prayers are empty, meaningless.

By YOUR GRACE!