Aug.24.01: Light For The Day - "Nothing Impossible"

-- Matthew 17:20 (RSV)
"He said to them, "Because of your little faith. 
For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain 
of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 
’Move from here to there,’ and it will move; 
and nothing will be impossible to you."
-- Luke 1:37 (RSV)
"For with God nothing will be impossible."

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Your faith prospers when everything is against you. 
Your faith increases with every trial. 
No water is sweeter than that which springs in a 
desert oasis. No faith is so precious as that which 
lives and triumphs in adversity.

Tested faith brings experience, and experience makes 
religion real. You will never know the bitterness of sin 
or the sweetness of pardon until you have felt both. 
You will never know your own weakness until you have 
been compelled to go through the rivers. You will never 
know God’s strength until He has supported you in 
deep waters.

All the talk about religion that has not been personally 
experienced is just talk. If we have little experience, 
we cannot speak so positively as those whose experience 
has been deep and profound. Once in the early days of 
my ministry, I was preaching on God’s faithfulness in trials, 
and my venerable grandfather was sitting in the pulpit 
behind me. He suddenly stood up, came to the pulpit, 
and said, “My grandson can preach this as a matter of 
theory. But I can tell it to you from experience because 
I have done business on great waters. I have seen the works 
of the Lord and His wonders in the deep” (Ps. 107:23–24). 
There is an accumulation of force in the testimony of one 
who has passed through great trials.

Faith increases in firmness, assurance, and intensity when 
it is exercised with trials. Praise Him for your trials, and 
you will have more and more of God’s blessings until your 
faith will move mountains and nothing will be impossible

-- C.H.Spurgeon

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-- Mark 10:27 (RSV)
"But Jesus looked at them and said, 
"With men it is impossible, but not with God; 
for with God all things are possible."

-- James 1:12 
"Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has 
stood the test he will receive the crown of life which 
God has promised to those who love him."