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stopped
visiting the doctor. Are not these indications of faith?”
    It so happened, however, that four weeks later the eyes
of that brother had gotten worse. So he came to see me and asked me why God had
healed that sister but not him. I told him that he had thrown away those things
for his eyes too quickly, for he had not had faith. But he replied, “I do
believe that God is able to heal me. Also God wants me to go to Kodiem to
preach the gospel, and at my return He without doubt will heal me.” So I told
him to come see me after his return. Yet when he came back from Kodiem he was still
not healed. I need to report that from 1929 up till today 1937 he has needed to
wear a high-degree pair of spectacles and is still visiting the doctor. Why is this
so? It is due to his lack of true faith.

Have
Living Faith towards God’s Word
    Living faith is not believing that God will heal me; rather, it is believing
that God has already heard my prayer. Whenever you believe that God has already
heard you, your prayer has already been answered. That brother with the eye
problem had believed from the first day that God would heal him, but that was of no effect. The Bible tells us of
only one kind of faith: believe that you have received whatever things you have
prayed and asked for and you shall have them. To believe that things asked for of
God will or shall or can, comes from ourselves. Let us realize that, in this
particular context, such words as “shall,” “will,” “able” and “can” are inappropriate,
even negative, words. Living faith has nothing to do with such words. The words
conveying living faith are “has been,” “is” and “already.” Hence, whatever is
related to Christ, let us see that just as you believed and were saved, so now
you believe and you are victorious; for all the riches of Christ—whether the
baptism in the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit, the healing of
sickness, and all other blessings from above—are all yours.
    Whenever you have God’s word and you lay hold of it,
believing that this word is yours, then that word belongs to you. Faith without
God’s word is false faith: it is useless and has no effect. Faith must have the
word of God. Romans 8:2 and 6:6a are two of God’s words. If we lay hold of God’s
words and believe them we shall already have the benefit of them.
    The Lord Jesus said, “All things whatsoever you pray and
ask for.” How inclusive is this word? It includes everything: all the promises
of God, all His abundant blessings, and all His accomplished facts. So simply believe
that you have received them and you shall have them. May God give us light and
cause us to know what living faith is. With such faith, all our difficult
problems are solved. This, then, is the first lesson we must learn, and such
shall be useful throughout our entire Christian life. May God bless us. [**]

 

6: The Revelation on
the Mountain
    “And he said to them, Verily I say unto you, There are some
here of them that stand by, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see
the kingdom of God come with power. And after six days Jesus taketh with Him
Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart by
themselves: and he was transfigured before them; and his garments became
glistering, exceeding white, so as no fuller on earth can whiten them. And there
appeared unto them Elijah with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus. And
Peter answereth and saith to Jesus, Rabbi, it is good
for us to be here: and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for
Moses, and one for Elijah. For he knew not what to answer;
for they became sore afraid. And there came a cloud overshadowing them:
and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my
beloved Son: hear ye him. And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one
anymore, save Jesus only with themselves” (Mark 9:1-8).

Revelation
on the Mountain Causes Us to Know
the
True Image of the Lord
    We are