Be Faith Filled - Holy Confidence

Richard Sibbes "Divine Meditations", No. 85

God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

John Flavel The Mystery of Providence Opened

Providence so orders the case that faith and prayer need to be exercised to close the gap between our needs and supply. Thus, the goodness of God is more magnified in supplying the provisions we need. Man’s extremity is God's opportunity.

John Bunyan "Christian Behavior" on Titus 3:7-8

Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembrance at once, both my vileness against God, and his goodness towards me; it will show me, that though I deserve not to breathe in the air, yet that God will have me an heir of glory.

C.H. Spurgeon

Faith is both God's gift and man's act. The Lord is the author of our faith, but we ourselves believe. God gives us faith, but He does not believe for us.

Faith is the soul's eye by which it sees the Lord. Faith is the soul's ear by which we hear what God the Lord will speak. Faith is the spiritual hand which touches and grasps the things not seen as yet.

"A Lecture For Little-Faith"

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R.C. Chapman, 'Choice Sayings', Notes of Expositions of the Scriptures, 1883

God is honored by faith, and most honored when faith discerns His love and truth behind a thick cloud of His ways and providence.

J.C. Ryle Old Paths, "Faith"

Would you have more faith? Do you find believing so pleasant that you would like to believe more? Then take heed that you are diligent in the use of every means of grace, diligent in your private communion with God, diligent in your daily watchfulness over time, temper, and tongue, diligent in your private Bible-reading, diligent in your own private prayers. It is vain to expect spiritual prosperity, when we are careless about these things. Let those who will, call it over-precise and legal to be particular about them. I only reply, that there never was an eminent saint who neglected them.

Would you have more faith? Then seek to become more acquainted with Jesus Christ. Study your blessed Saviour more and more, and strive to know more of the length and breadth and height of His love. Study Him in all His offices, as the Priest, the Physician, the Redeemer, the Advocate, the Friend, the Teacher, the Shepherd of His believing people. Study Him as one who not only died for you, but is also living for you at the right hand of God, as one who not only shed His blood for you, but daily intercedes for you at the right hand of God, as one who is soon coming again for you, and will stand once more on this earth. The miner who is fully persuaded that the rope which draws him up from the pit will not break, is drawn up without anxiety and alarm. The believer who is thoroughly acquainted with the fullness of Jesus Christ, is the believer who travels from grace to glory with the greatest comfort and peace. Then let your daily prayers always contain these words, "Lord, increase my faith" (Luke 17:5).

A.B. Simpson

One of the most essential qualities of faith that is to attempt great things for God and expect great things from God, is holy audacity. Where we are dealing with a supernatural Being, and taking from Him things that are humanly impossible, it is easier to take much than little; it is easier to stand in a place of audacious trust than in a place of cautious, timid clinging to the shore. Likewise, seamen in the life of faith, let us launch out into the deep, and find that all things are possible with God, and all things are possible unto him that believeth.

A.W. Tozer

Faith is confidence in God's self-revelation as found in the Holy Scriptures.

The certainty of the believer may be understood when it is remembered that it springs from his faith in the Scriptures as the full and true revelation of the mind of God to men. His dogmatism has back of it the strong “thus saith the Lord” of prophet and apostle.

The man of faith is so sure of his position before God that he can quietly allow himself to be overlooked, discredited, and deflated, without a tremor of anxiety. He is willing to wait out God's own good time and let the wisdom of the future judgment reveal his true size and worth. The man of unbelief dare not do this. He is so unsure of himself that he demands immediate and visible proof of his success. His deep unbelief must have the support of present judgment. He looks eagerly for evidence to assure him that he is indeed somebody. And of course this hunger for present approval throws him open to the temptation to inflate his work for the sake of appearances.

D.L. Moody

Faith does not look within; it looks without. It is not what I think, nor what I feel, nor what I have done, but it is what Jesus Christ is and has done, and so we should trust in Him who is our strength, and whose strength will never fail.

John Stott

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

George Mueller

If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried and therefore, through the trial, be strengthened.

CAUTION

A.W. Tozer The Set of the Sail

You have only to imagine your closest personal friend coming to you and stating in cold seriousness that he no longer has any confidence in you. I do not trust you. I have lost confidence in your character. I am forced to suspect every move you make. Such a declaration would instantly alienate friends by destroying the foundation upon which every friendship is built. Until your former friends opinion of you had been reversed there could be no further communion. Only a restored faith could bring about a restored friendship.

People do not go boldly to God and profess that they have no confidence in Him, and no one except the rare professional unbeliever is willing to witness publicly to his low view of God. The frightful thing, however, is that people everywhere act out their unbelief with a consistency that is more convincing than words.

F.B. Meyer Our Daily Walk on Isaiah 38:14

May I trust more than I know, and believe more than I see; and when my heart is overwhelmed within me, lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

The trouble with many Christians is that we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, but we do not believe Him...we do not take the Scripture as it is and believe it and live by and apply it.

The God whom I am trusting for today, I will trust for tomorrow.