Devotions with Pastor Dick Guilfoil

FAITH
"Faith as a grain of mustard seed. . ." Matthew 17:20

We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may be so in the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith.

• Faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity.

God frequently will knock the bottom board out of your experience, if you are a saint,

• In order to get you into contact with Himself.

God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith,

• Not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings.

Your earlier life of faith was narrow and intense,

• Settled around a little sun-spots of experience that had as much of sense as of faith in it,
• Full of light and sweetness;

Then God withdrew His conscious blessings

• In order to teach you to walk by faith.

You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony.

Faith, by its very nature must be tried,
The real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our
own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of isolation.

• Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life,
• Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

Faith in the Bible is faith in God against everything that contradicts Him

• I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do.
• “Though He slay me, yet will I hope in Him.” Job 13:15

This is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.


Pastor Dick