FAITH Belief in that which has no tangible proof; trust in God.
---Tyndale Bible Dictionary
And like the woman in the crowd... He must be pursued... the hem touched...
The man born blind... he had to wash...
The mother... with the tormented daughter... she had to persist...
Standing firm... in faith... cannot be done with weak knees...
James McDonald... he shared this verse... on active faith...
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?
Those prints are large and round and neat,
But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made Me wait.
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know.
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt.
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb.
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their buttprints in the sand."
If you find yourself on your butt... STAND UP... strengthen feeble hands... steady knees that give way... exercise your faith... even if it is as small as a mustard seed...
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
1Peter 5:9-11
(emphasis mine)
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