How Faith is Built 2 – A Study in Faith by EW Kenyon

How Faith is Built

…Continued from last week. Some Faith Facts

Faith in the Father is not built upon the word of man but upon His own Word.

Man’s testimony to the truth of the Word has its place, but cannot take the place of the Word itself.

The Word is the Father speaking. It is as though the master were here now in person; that Word is taking His place. That Word has given us life and made us new creations. That Word has sustained us and upheld us. It is the Word of faith that proceeds from the very heart of the Father of faith. The Word is a part of the Father Himself. I feed on it. I breathe it into my spirit. It is being built into my spirit. It is being built in to my spirit-consciousness. Its absolute integrity, its life-giving quality has impregnated my very being. Man’s word like grass, withers. God’s Word like Himself, can never die, can never lose its freshness, its power, its ability to recreate, to strengthen and give courage.

You see the Word in the lips of faith become just like the Word in Jesus’ lips. The Word in lips of doubt and fear is a dead thing; but in the lips of faith, it becomes life-giving, dominant. Through it the sick are healed; Satan’s captives are set free. This living Word in the lips of faith is God’s answer to the heart cry of man. Man’s word may fascinate and satisfy reason for a time, but the heart demands the Word of God.

This Word illumined by the Holy Spirit in God’s light on life’s pathway. The Word is part of Himself. You can Lean on the Word as you would lean on Him. You can rest in the Word as you would rest in Him. You can act on the Word as you would act if He had just spoken to you. The Word is always Now.

Our modern psychological religions are children of the senses; they use the Bible and quote from it, but it is only man’s literature to them. Their writings can’t feed the hungry spirit of man; they simply entertain and thrill the people of the senses.

These eternal spirits of ours crave the bread of God. Jesus is the bread of Life; they that feed on Him, have no appetite for the theories of men.

Don’t waste time with philosophies of men. There is no life in them. In Him is Life, and that Life is our Light. His word alone can answer the cry of lost reason-ruled souls groping in the sense realm for light, but never the cry of the heart.

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