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| − | ==What is the Prayer of Faith?==
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| − | What is the Prayer of Faith?</font><font size="7" color="#440000"><br>
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| − | <font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him"</font><br>
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| − | <font size="2">(James 5:15)</font>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">by Katie Stewart</font><br>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">T<font size="4" color="#000000">he only verse in Scripture that contains the phrase,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, is James 5:15. Though spoken of only once, the prayer title conveys an assurance of success in prayer. The conviction that life, if lived with Faith in God, rewards with an Eternity spent in God's presence, encourages us to believe that Faith accomplishes whatever it sets out to do.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our Faith</b>"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1John 5:4)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. With the Promise of victory beforehand, prayer linked by Faith that is founded in God assures itself to be both rewarding and exciting in</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"exploits"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The people that do<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>know</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>their God shall be strong, and do exploits"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Daniel 11:32)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<br>
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| − | Many times prayer does not yield the desired results we yearn for.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Proverbs 13:12)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. Hope precedes all prayer, but only when the answer comes do we recognize the difference that Faith makes in praying.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"But when the desire cometh, it is a Tree of Life"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(13:12)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. Picture lightning. When God's will makes contact with our hope, Faith is established and grace races down the lightning rod of experience. Faith is the way you use God's grace. It's our part to exercise the Faith God authors, but its God's part to finish it.</font></p>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is prayer that ALWAYS GETS ANSWERED. If the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is for the sick,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"the LORD shall raise"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the sick up. If the</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is Godly repentance, then sins<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"shall be forgiven"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">The reason that the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>always gets answered is because of the very nature of Faith.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Faith is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>substance</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of things hoped for, the<b>evidence</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of things not seen"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Hebrews 11:1)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Faith is... substance"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"evidence"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. Faith can't be held in the hand, or gazed upon with the eye, but Faith in God and His character is MORE real than anything your bodily senses can physically verify. Faith based in the Word of God is as realistic as</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"substance"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"evidence"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gets. Nothing in this world is more real. Therefore, Faith always produces fruit and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>always gets answered. Faith IS ALWAYS SUBSTANCE!<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Since the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is always answered, IT MUST ALWAYS BE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Colossians 4:12</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Always labouring<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>fervently for you in prayers</b>, that ye may stand perfect and complete<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in all the will of God</b>."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Hebrews 10:36</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For ye have need of patience, that,<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>after ye have done the will of God</b>, ye might<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>receive the Promise</b>."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Romans 8:27</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"the Spirit... maketh intercession for the saints<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>according to the will of God</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Since the above points are absolutes, THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS to them. For the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">to be the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, these elements must be present.</font></p>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">:</font></p>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">ALWAYS GETS ANSWERED<br>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">IS ALWAYS SUBSTANCE<br>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">MUST ALWAYS BE ACCORDING TO GOD'S WILL<br>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <b>===ALL Prayer Hinges On the Covenant===</b></font></p>
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| − | <dl style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And I, behold, I establish My Covenant with you, and with your seed after you... Now therefore, if ye will obey My Voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the Earth is Mine"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Genesis 9:9; Exodus 19:5)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></dd>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">O<font size="4" color="#000000">ur first prayer to God, the prayer of repentance that brought us into the family circle of Heaven, was our beginning to build upon the foundation, which is Jesus, for all our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>future</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>prayers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(1 Corinthians 3:11)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. That first prayer was our promise (our affirmation of His Covenant) with God that we belonged to Him, and He to us.</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All prayer, therefore, is valid and honourable before God if we've kept our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Covenant</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with Him.</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Our walk with God is a binding "all or nothing" agreement-- Covenant-- it's black or white, Heaven or Hell. The LORD has given on the Cross, and continues to give, His infinite 100%. We give Him our finite 100%.</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Be ye therefore perfect</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[your 100%]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[His 100%]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Matthew 5:48)<font size="4">.</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(John 5:17)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Philippians 2:13</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For it is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>God which worketh in you</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>both to will and to do of His good pleasure."</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Hebrews 13:20,21</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Now the God of peace...<b>make you perfect</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in every good work to do His will,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>working in you</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that which is wellpleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ."</font></li>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4">The LORD<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Covenant</font><font size="4">s (promises)</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"all or nothing"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>forgiveness</i></font></p>
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| − | <li>1 John 1:9<font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"If we confess our sins, He is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>unrighteousness."</font><font size="4"><i><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Titus 2:14</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."</font></li>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4">The LORD<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Covenant</font><font size="4">s (promises)</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"all or nothing" of</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>His Spirit</i></font></p>
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| − | <li>Acts 5:32<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Holy Ghost, Whom God hath given<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>to them that obey Him</b>."</font>
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| − | <li>1 Thessalonians 5:19<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Quench</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[literally, extinguish]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>not the Spirit."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Ephesians 1:13<font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Promise</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">We give our 100%:</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">1 Corinthians 15:10</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"But<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>by the grace of God I am what I am</b>: and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>His grace which was bestowed upon me</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was not in vain;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>but I laboured more abundantly</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me."</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Titus 3:8</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>be careful to maintain good works</b>. These things are good and profitable unto men."</font></li>
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| − | <li>Matthew 22:37<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>thy heart, and with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>thy soul, and with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>thy mind."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>1 John 2:15<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"If any man love the world, the love of the Father is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in him."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Matthew 6:24<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"No man can serve two masters... Ye cannot serve God<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>and</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>mammon.</font><font color="#AA0000">"</font></li>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4">Our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Covenant</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(promise) is</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"all or nothing"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>obedience</i></font></p>
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| − | <li>James 2:10<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>offend in one point, he is guilty of all</b>."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>James 4:4<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Know ye not that the<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>friendship of the world is enmity with God</b>? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>enemy</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of God."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Galatians 1:10<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For do I now persuade<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>men, or God</b>? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be the servant of Christ."</font></li>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4">Even so, in our walk with God, our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Covenant</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(promise) is</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"all or nothing"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Faith in Him for everything in this world, and in the next.</i></font></p>
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| − | <li>2 Timothy 1:12<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>I know Whom I have believed, and am persuaded</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Psalm 62:8</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"<b>Trust in Him at all times</b>; ye people,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>pour out your heart before Him</b>: God is a Refuge for us."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">2 Chronicles 20:20</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>Believe</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the LORD your God, so shall ye be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>established</b>."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Psalm 37:3,5</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>Trust in the LORD</b>, and do good; so shalt thou<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>dwell</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the land, and verily thou shalt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>be fed</b>... Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Isaiah 26:4</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>Trust ye in the LORD for ever</b>: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Everlasting</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Strength."</font></li>
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| − | </ul>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Note: Only a clean heart-- that is, repentant and/or walking without known sin-- can offer to God the sweet-smelling sacrifice of prayer.</font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Psalm 66:18-20</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">18</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><b>If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me</b>:</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">19</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">20</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Psalm 18:40-41<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies... they cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>he</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>answered them not</b>."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Proverbs 1:28-30<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font>28<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">Then shall they call upon me, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>I will not answer</b>; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">29</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD</b>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">30</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Proverbs 28:9<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"He that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>turneth away</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>his ear from hearing the law, even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>his prayer shall be abomination</b>."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <li>Isaiah 1:15-16<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>I will not hear</b>: your hands are full of blood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wash you, make you clean</b>; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li>John 9:31<font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Now we know that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>God heareth not sinners</b>: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>doeth his will, him he heareth</b>."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li>James 4:3<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Ye ask, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>receive not</b>, because ye ask amiss, that ye may<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>consume it upon your lusts</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <b>===Two Kinds of Prayer</b>===<br>
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| − | The two kinds of prayer addressed here are basically the same, but differ in results.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>always</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>secures the answer.<br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#000000">The Prayer That Demonstrates Faith by the mere act of asking, yet does<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>secure the answer.</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">The Prayer That Demonstrates Faith</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>must be in the general will of God, for He will definitely not answer anything we know to be unscriptural<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Wherefore be ye not unwise, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>understanding</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>what the will of the LORD is</font><font color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(</font>Ephesians 5:17<font color="#000000">).</font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font size="4"><i>The character of God reveals His will.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>Galatians 1:3-4<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>gave himself for our sins</b>, that he might<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>deliver us from this present evil world</b>, according to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>will of God</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and our Father."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li><font size="4"><i>The Word of God reveals His will.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">Romans 12:2</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>be</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not conformed to this world</b>: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may<b>prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God</b>."</font><font size="4"><br>
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| − | <br>
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| − | <li><font size="4"><i>The Spirit of God reveals His will.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font>Colossians 1:9<font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might<b>be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding</b>.</font><font color="#AA0000">"</font></li>
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| − | </ul>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4">But the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>must be His<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>specific</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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| − | </font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <b>===Only the Holy Spirit Authors the<span class="Apple-converted-space">=== </span></b></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><b>"Prayer of Faith"</b></font><br>
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| − | E<font size="4" color="#000000">ven after all your best intentions are prayerfully carried out, it is still only the Holy Spirit Who can make the difference between the Prayer That Demonstrates Faith in asking and the true<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>must be in the specific will of God. Only the Holy Spirit that can lead and inspire the direction that we are to take in fulfilling God's specific will.</font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Romans 8:26-27</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>we know not what we should pray for as we ought</b>: but the Spirit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">[Himself]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><b>maketh intercession for us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>with groanings which cannot be uttered. And He</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[the Father]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because<b>He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Persevering in prayer is essential to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, or else the answer that surely would have come-- won't.</font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Ephesians 6:18</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>watching thereunto with all perseverance</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and supplication for all saints."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Colossians 4:2</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>Continue</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">1 Thessalonians 5:17</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Pray<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>without ceasing</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Note: If persevering in prayer proves impossible because the answer is a definite, "No", then there was no Securing Faith. The prayer was Prayer That Demonstrated Faith, but wasn't ever inspired by the Spirit according to God's specific will. Therefore, He didn't answer it</font>.<font color="#000000">ORD-- IF His </font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">1 John 5:14-15</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>according to His will</b>, He heareth us: And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <b>===Prayer That Demonstrates Faith in Asking===</b><br>
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| − | W</font><font size="4">hen you pray you are petitioning God in either Faith or hope.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Prayer That Demonstrates Faith by the mere task of asking is praying in hope.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4">Hope yields anticipation, but does not secure the answer. But even though this kind of prayer can't bring forth the answer you seek,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">Prayer That Demonstrates Faith by the mere task of asking glorifies God because it seeks God as the Giver and is in obedience to the command<br>
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| − | Every prayer ought to be prayed in Faith. When we pray, we are commanded to believe God and to take Him at His Word. We have no right to doubt God.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">John 16:24</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My Name:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ask</b>, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Mark 11:22</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And Jesus answering saith unto them,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Have Faith in God</b>."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Mark 11:24</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>believe</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Matthew 7:7</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"<b>Ask</b>, and it shall be given you;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>seek</b>, and ye shall find;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>knock</b>, and it shall be opened unto you."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">We are to pray about all things, exercising our Faith in God and His Promises.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Philippians 4:6</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Be careful for nothing; but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>in every thing</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">But how can we know the prayer was prayed in Faith? You can "feel" you prayed in Faith, and you ought to believe you did. However, you won't know it by sight until the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"substance"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"evidence"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Hebrews 11:1)</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Faith, which isn't visible at first, becomes visible at the arriving of the answer.<br>
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| − | Paul is an example of walking by Faith-- yet praying a prayer that was NOT in Faith.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">2 Corinthians 12:7-9</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">7</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">Lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">8</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">For this thing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>I besought the LORD thrice, that it might depart from me</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">9</font><font size="4" color="#000000"></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">It was not the LORD's specific will to remove Paul's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"thorn in the flesh"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. It is always the LORD's general will to heal.</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses... and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Matthew 8:17; Luke 5:15)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. Paul prayed as he ought to have. Paul believed as he ought to have. But since the Holy Spirit knew God's specific will in this particular matter, He did not excite securing Faith in Paul. This is an excellent example of how a Faithful Servant couldn't pray the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, but instead prayed Prayer That Demonstrates Faith in the mere asking.<br>
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| − | <b>===Faith: Quantity Or Quality?===</b><br>
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| − | How much" Faith is needed to pray the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">? There can be a great deal of confusion on this point, because we often think of Faith in terms of quantity, when instead we should think of quality. While it does take Faith to begin to pray at all, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>needs a higher degree of quality to persevere until the answer comes. It takes a better grade of Faith to persevere in prayer than to just begin praying. "Do I have enough Faith to expect God to answer this prayer?"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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| − | QUANTITY can be seen in this lowly, smallest of small seeds, the mustard seed.</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">When responding to the Apostles' desire for more Faith,</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Increase our Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Luke 17:5)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, the LORD Jesus said that the smallest amount of Faith, even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"as a grain of mustard seed... which indeed is the least of all seeds"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Luke 17:6; Matthew 13:32)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, was enough to do even the impossible, i.e.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Luke 17:6)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. The smallest QUANTITY of Faith is equivalent to the smallest of all seeds. The smallest of all seeds can accomplish the impossible. Therefore, as far as QUANTITY is concerned,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>any Faith is enough Faith.</b></font>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">God isn't unfair in His dealings with men.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"God is no respecter of persons"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Acts 10:34)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. The LORD gives</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"The Measure of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to all men, therefore, no one has a reason to boast because no one has an unfair advantage in their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"walk by Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(2Corinthians 5:7)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"For I say... to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>every</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>The Measure of Faith</b>"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Romans 12:3)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Measure of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"dealt to every man"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is even<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"as a grain of mustard seed"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, and is enough to do anything needed, even the impossible.<br>
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| − | Any QUANTITY of Faith is enough Faith. There are no levels in amount or quantity. The LORD gives us<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Measure of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Romans 12:3)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">If you have ANY<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Measure of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, even if<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Measure of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"as a grain of mustard seed"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, then you have enough<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Measure"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in life to accomplish anything-- even moving mountains.</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Matthew 17:19-20</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">19</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">20</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Faith as a grain of mustard seed,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>nothing shall be impossible</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>unto you."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">QUALITY can be seen in this lowly, smallest of small seeds, the mustard seed.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Romans 4:19-21</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">19</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And being<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not weak in Faith</b>, he</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Abraham]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">20</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Abraham]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>staggered not at the Promise of God through unbelief; but was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>strong in Faith</b>, giving glory to God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">21</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">And being<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>fully persuaded</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform."</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">1 Corinthians 16:13</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Watch ye,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>stand fast in the Faith</b>, quit you like men,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>be strong</b>."</font></li>
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| − | You build strength in Faith the same way you build strength in muscle-- by exercise. The way you use Faith, the areas of life in which you apply Faith, the advantage you take in the opportunities the LORD lays before you-- these are the means by which Faith grows strong. Do you seek reliance upon God only, and trust Him even when the situation gives you other options? This not only pleases Him, for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"without Faith it is impossible to please Him"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Hebrews 11:6)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, but this exercise of Faith causes you to trust God more.<br>
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| − | Faith is like a mustard seed. It grows in strength and might, in glory and perfection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed... which indeed is the least of all seeds: but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>when it is grown, it is the greatest</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Matthew 13:31-32)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. To be one of these<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"birds of the air"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">that</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"come and lodge in the branches"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Kingdom of Heaven"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is to have</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"The Mighty One"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>declare,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"all flesh shall know that I the LORD am<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>thy</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saviour and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>thy</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Redeemer, The Mighty One of Jacob"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Isaiah 49:26)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. This is QUALITY of Faith grown to its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"greatest"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, most glorious potential!</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Luke 12:28</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little Faith?"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Matthew 16:8</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Which when Jesus perceived, He said unto them, O ye of little Faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Matthew 14:31</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little Faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?"</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">In "Strong's Concordance" we find<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as meaning "trusting too little", i.e., "Faith"-- singular in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>quality</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(not plural, as in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>quantity):</i></font></p>
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| − | <p><font color="#000000">3640 oligopistov oligopistos {ol-ig-op'-is-tos}<br>
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| − | from 3641 and 4102; TDNT - 6:174,849; n f<br>
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| − | AV - of little faith 5; 5<br>
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| − | 1) of little faith,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>trusting too little</b></font></p>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Also, in "Strong's",<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>can mean "of number: multitude,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quantity</b>, or size"; but it can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>also</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>mean "of degree or intensity: light, slight", i.e.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quality</b>.</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">3641 oligov oligos {ol-ee'-gos}<br>
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| − | of uncertain affinity; TDNT - 5:171,682; adj<br>
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| − | AV - few 14, (a) little 7, small 5, few things 4, almost + 1722 2,<br>
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| − | 1) little, small, few<br>
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| − | 1a) of number: multitude, quantity, or size<br>
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| − | 1b) of time: short<br>
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| − | 1c)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>of degree or intensity: light, slight</b></font></dd>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Therefore, to rightly divide the Spirit's meaning of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, and determine if Faith could be in quantity, as opposed to just quality, we must study the context.<br>
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| − | The first two references of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Matthew 6:30 and Luke 12:28 are parallel passages.</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">Matthew 6:24-33</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">24</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the One, and love the other; or else he will hold to the One, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">[In other words, choose the single master you will love and hold to-- God or the world.]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">25</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">[or, don't worry]</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life MORE than meat, and the body than raiment?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Are ye not much better than they?</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">27</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Which of you by taking thought</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[or, worrying]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">can add one cubit unto his stature?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">28</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">29</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">30</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not MUCH MORE clothe you,<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>O ye of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>little Faith</b>?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">31</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">32</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">33</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."</font>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">If our Heavenly Father completely meets the need of all life in the natural world,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><i>"Are ye not much better than they? "</i></font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Which master deserves your trust? Hasn't the Father earned perfect Faith, of the highest<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quality</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and degree of intensity? To fall short of that is to trust "too little", or have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></dd>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br>
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| − | The third passage of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is in Matthew:</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">Matthew 8:23-27</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">23</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">And when He was entered into a ship, His disciples followed Him.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">24</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but He was asleep.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">25</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And His disciples came to Him, and awoke Him, saying, LORD, save us: we perish.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And He saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>little Faith</b>? Then He arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">27</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him!"</font>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">Again, we find that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means to fall short in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quality</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of trust, or to trust "too little", which can dangerously lead to fear.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Why are ye fearful, O ye of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>little Faith</b>?"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And when fear isn't handled properly, i.e.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"What time I am afraid, I will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>trust</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Thee"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Psalm 56:3)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, it leads to sin, i.e.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"But the fearful, and unbelieving... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Revelation 21:8)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. High quality Faith<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"will<b>trust</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Thee"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></dd>
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| − | The fourth passage of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">:</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">Matthew 16:5-12</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">5</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And when His disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">6</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">7</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">8</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Which when Jesus perceived, He said unto them, O ye of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>little Faith</b>, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">9</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Do ye not yet understand, neither remember</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">10</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">11</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">12</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then understood they how that He bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."</font>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">Jesus was trying to warn His disciples about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">by using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"leaven"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as an illustration of Truth. But instead of seeing the broader picture of Faith, the disciples, in their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>could only misunderstand Him. They forgot His past demonstrations of miraculous supply.</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Do ye not yet understand, neither remember... How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#000000">It was only after the reproof, that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"then understood they how that He bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If the disciples had a zealous<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quality</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Faith, if they had trusted Jesus more for the supply He had previously shown them, then they wouldn't have tripped over His lesson.</font></dd>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">Matthew 14:25-31</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">25</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">27</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.</font><font color="#000000">28</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Peter answered Him and said, LORD, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the water.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">29</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And He said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">30</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, LORD, save me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">31</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>little Faith</b>, wherefore didst thou doubt?"</font>
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| − | <dd><font size="4" color="#000000">The disciples thought they saw a ghost walking on the water. Jesus calmed their fears by identifying Himself. Peter was beginning to demonstrate Faith in this identifying process by saying,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"LORD, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the water."</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But Peter's Faith was low quality. He trusted "too little", and his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>turned into<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"doubt"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as he took his eyes off the Author of Faith<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Hebrews 12:2)</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and placed them instead on the object of defeat. Peter wavered from Faith, changing his ultimate purpose--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"he was afraid"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Matthew 14:30)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">-- but, quickly returned to his condition of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000">, when he cried,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"LORD, save me"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(14:30)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></dd>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is still Faith. But remember,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"little Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>means to fall short in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>quality</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of trust, or to trust "too little", which can dangerously lead to sin.<br>
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| − | <b>===Faith Versus Doubt===</b><br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Romans 14:23</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>he that doubteth is damned</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if he eat, because he eateth not of Faith: for whatsoever is not of Faith is sin."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">Faith secures all. Doubt receives nothing.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">James 1:6-8</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">6</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">Let him ask in Faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">7</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">For<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the LORD</b>.</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">8</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">A double minded man is unstable in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>all</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>his ways."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000"><b>If</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>you know "beyond a shadow of doubt" that God's will for you is to curse a fig tree, or move a mountain, and you refuse to believe Him for it, then you drop from one, who trusts God to use you to do the impossible, to one who doubts God.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And he that doubteth is damned."</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Matthew 21:21</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>If ye have Faith, and doubt not</b>, 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."<br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Mark 11:23</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith."<br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Galatians 4:19-21</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"</font><font color="#000000">19</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">20</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>I stand in doubt of you</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">21</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?"<br>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">John 10:23-26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"</font><font color="#000000">23</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">24</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then came the Jews round about Him, and said unto Him, How long dost Thou make us to doubt? If Thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">25</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jesus answered them,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>I told you, and ye believed not</b>: the works that I do in My Father's Name, they bear witness of Me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>ye believe not, because ye are not of My sheep</b>, as I said unto you."</font></li>
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| − | <b>===One Faith But Different Areas of Application===</b><br>
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| − | When the LORD is allowed, by you, to prove Himself Faithful, the accumulated experience will strengthen your boldness and cause you to exercise Faith in even more areas.</font></p>
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| − | <ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
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| − | <li><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"</font><font color="#000000">3</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">4</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">And<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>patience, experience; and experience, hope</b>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">5</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">And hope maketh<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not ashamed</b>"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Romans 5:3-5)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">As we continue on the Path of Light<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Proverbs 4:18)</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that is Life to the Christian,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(1Peter 3:15)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Jesus answering saith unto them,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Have Faith in God</b>"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font color="#000000">(Mark 11:22)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">. Pray the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for others. The one time<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"Prayer of Faith"</font><font size="4" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is declared in Scripture is in intercession for others.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="4" color="#AA0000">"And the Prayer of Faith shall<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>save the sick</b>, and the LORD shall raise him up"</font><font color="#000000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(James 5:15)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.</font></p>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Acts 3:16</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"And His Name through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Faith in His Name hath made this man strong</b>, whom ye see and know: yea,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>the Faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the presence of you all."</font>
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| − | <li><font color="#000000">Acts 11:24</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"For he was a good man, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>full</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the Holy Ghost and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>of Faith</b>: and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>much people was added unto the LORD</b>."</font></li>
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| − | <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><font size="4" color="#000000">More Areas of the Application of Faith (As Demonstrated in the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 11):</font></p>
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| − | <dd><font color="#000000">1</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now Faith is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>substance</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of things hoped for, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>evidence</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of things not seen.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">2</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For by it the elders<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>obtained a good report</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">3</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Through Faith we<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God</b>, so that things which are seen were<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>not</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>made of things which do appear.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">4</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Abel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>than Cain, by which he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>obtained witness that he was righteous</b>, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">5</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Enoch<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>was translated that he should not see death</b>; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>he pleased God</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">6</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But without Faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>must believe that He is, and that He is a Rewarder</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of them that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>diligently seek Him</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">7</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>prepared an ark to the saving of his house</b>; by the which he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>condemned the world</b>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>became heir of the righteousness which is by Faith</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">8</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>OBEYED</b>; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">9</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>sojourned in the land of Promise</b>, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same Promise:<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">10</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>looked for a City which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">11</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Through Faith also Sara herself<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>received strength to conceive seed</b>, and was<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>delivered of a child when she was past age</b>, because she<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>judged Him Faithful</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Who had promised.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">12</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Therefore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>sprang there even of one</b>, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">13</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These all died in Faith, not having received the Promises, but having seen them afar off, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>were persuaded of them</b>, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>embraced them</b>, and confessed that they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>were strangers and pilgrims on the Earth</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">14</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For they that say such things declare plainly that they<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>seek a Country</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">15</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">16</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But now they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>desire a Better Country</b>, that is, an Heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath prepared for them a City.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">17</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Abraham, when he was tried,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>offered up Isaac</b>: and he that had received the Promises<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>offered up his only begotten son</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">18</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">19</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead</b>; from whence also he received him in a figure.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">20</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Isaac<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">21</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Jacob, when he was a dying,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>blessed both the sons</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Joseph;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>and worshipped</b>, leaning upon the top of his staff.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">22</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Joseph, when he died,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>made mention of the departing of the children of Israel</b>; and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>gave commandment concerning his bones</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">23</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Moses, when he was born,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>was hid three months of his parents</b>, because they saw he was a proper child; and they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>were not afraid of the king's commandment</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">24</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith Moses, when he was come to years,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter</b>;<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">25</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season</b>;<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">26</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater Riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the Reward</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">27</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing Him Who is Invisible</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">28</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Through Faith he<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest He that destroyed the firstborn should touch them</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">29</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith they<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>passed through the Red sea as by dry land</b>: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">30</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the walls of Jericho fell down</b>, after they were compassed about seven days.<br>
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| − | </font><font color="#000000">31</font><font size="4" color="#AA0000"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By Faith the harlot Rahab<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>perished not with them that believed not</b>, when she had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>received the spies with peace</b>.<br>
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| − | </font><font size="2" color="#000000">(Psalm 89:52)</font><font size="4" color="#000000">.
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