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WORDS OF FAITH from PEOPLE OF FAITH

Faith is not an instinct. 

It certainly is not a feeling 

– feelings don’t help much when you’re in the lions’ den 

or hanging on a wooden cross. 

Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. 

Faith is an act of will, 

is a choice, 

is based on the unbreakable Word of a God 

who cannot lie.

[elisabeth elliot]

Faith does not operate in the realm of the 'possible'. 

There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. 

Faith begins where man's power ends.

Faith has nothing to do with feelings

 or impressions,

 or improbabilities,

 or outward experiences. 

If we desire to couple such things with faith, 

then we are no longer resting on the Word of God.

Faith rests on the naked Word of God. 

When we take Him at His Word, 

the heart is at peace.

[george muller]

Faith never knows where it is being led, 

but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

[oswald chambers]

Sight is not faith, 

and hearing is not faith,

 neither is feeling faith; 

but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith.

 Therefore we must believe truth before we feel to truly be 'in faith'.

[hannah whitall smith]

Faith is a living,

 daring confidence 

in God's grace, 

so sure and so certain 

that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

[martin luther]

By faith Abraham

went when he was called

to go to place.

And he went,

not knowing where he was going.

By faith, Noah...

concerning events unseen,

constructed an ark.

By this he condemned the world,

and became an heir of the righteousness

that comes by faith.

[hebrews 11]

 For we are powerless against this...

We do not know what to do, 

but our eyes are on you...

Believe in your God, 

and you will be established; 

believe His words, and you will succeed.

[2 chronicles 20]

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exodus 3 

[God to Moses] 

“I have surely seen the affliction of my people,

have heard their cry. 

I know their sufferings, 

and I have come down to deliver them,

 to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, 

and...I will be with you” 

[Moses to God]

“If I come to the people of Israel and say to them,

 ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ 

and they ask me, 

‘What is his name?’ 

what shall I say to them?”  

[God to Moses]

Tell them “I AM WHO I AM.” 

meaning: 

He will be, eternal, 

to be, to exist, 

and always is. 

Unchangeable. 

This name is unique to God alone. 

The covenant-keeping God. 

El Shaddai shows God as covenant maker. 

I AM/Yahweh shows God as covenant keeper.

[God continues to Moses]

Say this to the people of Israel, 

‘The LORD, 

the God of your fathers, 

the God of Abraham, 

the God of Isaac, 

and the God of Jacob, 

has sent me to you.’ 

This is my name forever, 

and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations."

//

Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side.

Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change, He faithful will remain.

Be still, my soul: begin the song of praise