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Wednesday Jan 15, 2024

The Inner Conquest of Faith

“I have found that my only real battle all the time is the inner conquest of faith. If the devil through discouraging appearances can cut my faith life-line, even for a time, I am really under the weather. Though there are many deliverances of faith thankfully to point to, there are also deliverances for which I have waited for years and not seen yet. The point is the continual repetition of the walk of faith, and a walk is step by step.

To me, to repeat again, prayer concerning such matters is never a return to asking, but a constant thankfulness that what has not yet happened visibly, has in fact happened in the invisible. Blake wrote that we are led to believe a lie, when we see with, not through, the eye. Once I have been led into a faith transaction, and the word spoken, I do not allow the devil to turn me back on myself to question my motives, as: Am I hindering God? Or, Was I mistaken anyhow in my believing? No, the matter is now wholly and only in God’s hands, and even if there was a mistake, or there are hindrances, I say they are ‘God’s mistakes,’ and we shall see the foolishness of God wiser than men. Inner faith, then, is the energizer of outward action. ‘Come now,’ says God, ‘I will do this, and I will do it through you.’”

–Taken from The Spontaneous You

By Norman Grubb

Pages 120-121