Sep 25.97: Light For The Day - "By Faith"

Praise God even when you don't understand
what He is doing. - Anon.

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Psalm 146:5 (NIV)):
"Blessed is he ..... whose hope is in the LORD
his God."

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"By Faith" 

Blessed is the man who has learned the secret of
coming to God in daily prayer. Fifteen minutes alone
with God every morning before you start the day can
change circumstances and remove mountains!
But all of this happiness and all of these unlimited
benefits which flow from the storehouse of heaven
are contingent upon our relationship to God.

Absolute dependency and absolute yieldedness are
the conditions of being His child. Only His children
are entitled to receive those things that lend
themselves to happiness; and in order to be His
child, there must be the surrender of the will to Him.

Man does not come to know God through works alone --
he comes to know God by faith, through grace.
You cannot work your way toward happiness and
heaven, you cannot moralize your way, you cannot
reform your way, you cannot buy your way. 
It comes as a gift of God through Christ.

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--
and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 
not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are
God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
- Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV) 

Prayer:
Thank You, heavenly Father, for the gift of joy which
comes from knowing Your Son, Jesus Christ.

-- Billy Braham"

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Jude 1:20 (RSV): "But you, beloved, build yourselves
up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit "

James 5:15 (RSV): "and the prayer of faith will save
the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he
has committed sins, he will be forgiven."

1John 5:4 (RSV): "For whatever is born of God
overcomes the world; and this is the victory that
overcomes the world, our faith. "

James 2:22-26 (RSV): "You see that faith was active
along with his works, and faith was completed by 
works, ..... You see that a man is justified by works
and not by faith alone. For as the body apart from
the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead." 

Hebrew 11 --- ' By Faith ... Abel, Enoch, Noah,
Abraham, .... became men of God .'

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Hebrew 11:1 (TEV): "To have faith is to be sure of
the things we hope for, and to be certain of the things
we cannot see."

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O God of the impossible
When we no hope can see,
Grant us the Faith that still believes
All possible to Thee.
- J.H.S.-
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