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Mountain faith is like midnight fai^i-rfejoicing in the dark —singing praises for the answers to prayer which have not yet appeared to the naked eye of human reason. Faith is like the telescope through which the astronomer beholds a distant comet rapidly approaching the earth, which will not be visible to ordinary mortals fpr weeks or months. Midnight faith sees the coming dawn when others see only hopeless blackness. Mid night faith is as sure of the day as faithlessness is sure of the night. At midnight Paul and Silas sang praises that shook down prison walls! Earth-quaking praises and mountain-moving prayers are the great need of the church of God in this day. When the angel of Revelation 8 :3 offered the prayers of the saints, the program of God’s wrath suddenly began, with voices, thunderings, lightnings, earthquakes, and a mountain cast into the sea (Rev. 8:3-8, etc.). The mountain faith and the mid night faith are the key to the conclusion of the church age, the ending of the mountains and midnights of sin and sorrow, the key to the glorious consummation of the plan and purpose of God. How do we get this mountain-faith? It is a gift. No energy of our own can work up anything but a poor imitation of God’s faith. The divine may be copied but never duplicated; only God can create true faith; and it is a free g ift; ye who seek His face afld tarry long in His secret and abide under the shadow know well the glory of it; and yet the youngest believer may receive: it, if he will, without delay . . . By grace are ye saved through faith—and that not of yourselves—it is the gift of God. Then let us ask and obtain this midnight faith ,—Homera Homer-Dixon.
Mounta in Faith and M idnight Faith O UR Lord bids us take the “faith of God” (Mark 11 :2£, margin), and by that deep and wonderful phrase invites us to meditate on the faith that God has in Himself. Does God ever doubt Himself, His ability or His willingness to answer each prayer,offered in His name? Let us meditate much about God’s own estimate of Himself, His own faith in Himself, and then we will have the mountain-moving faith that prevails mightily in prayer. What are mountains to Him who has ‘’weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance/’ and who counts the nations but as à drop of a bucket," the small dust of the balance? (Who ever troubles about the last drop when buying a bucketful or a canful of milk, òr gasoline, or other liquid? Who ever wipes the fine dust off thé scales when buying article? by thè pound?) The dust and the drop—too insignificant for notice— are to us what mighty empires and vast kingdoms are in the sight of God the Almighty. We talk about “making a mountain out of a molehill” as the extreme Of foolish fear, yet when we faithlessly grieve over wrongs and evils (instead of praying joyfully for their removal) we are making mountains out of dust too fine to be noticed by even a thrifty merchant1or house wife. The prayer of faith avails to move mountains (Mark 11 : 23), and when we get a clear vision of the majesty of our God, His greatness and glory, His faith in Himself begins to saturate our souls and the prayer of faith rises spontaneously and joy ously, with the glad certainty of sure achievement. Both for $2 0 0 Money-Saving Whole Year!
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