January 18
Have faith in God. — Mark 11:22
Scripture reading: Psalm 9
There is a great difference between our faith and the faith of Jesus. Our faith comes to an end. Most people have come to the place where they have said, “Lord, I have gone so far; now I can go no further. I have used all the faith I have, and I just have to stop now and pray for more faith.”
Thank God that we have the faith we do, but there is another faith. I remember one day being in northern England and visiting some sick people. I was taken to a house where a young woman was lying on her bed. Her reason had gone, and many things were manifested there that were satanic, and I knew it.
She was only a young woman, a beautiful child. Then the husband, a young man, came in with a baby, and he leaned over to kiss his wife. The moment he did, she threw herself onto the other side of the bed, just as a lunatic would do, with no consciousness of the presence of her husband. That was very heartbreaking. Then he took the baby and pressed the baby‘s lips to the mother. Again, she responded wildly. I said to a sister who was attending her, “Have you had anyone to help?”
“Oh,” she said, “we have had everything.”
But I said, “Have you no spiritual help?”
Her husband stormed out and said, “Help? You think that we believe God after we have had seven weeks of no sleep and of maniac conditions? You are mistaken. You have come to the wrong house.”
That brought me to a place of compassion that something had to be done for this woman. Then with my faith, I began to penetrate the heavens with my prayers. I never saw anyone get anything from God who prayed with an earthly focus. If you receive anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven, for the answers are all there.
As I saw in the presence of God the limitations of my faith, there came another faith, a faith that could not be denied, a faith that took the promise, a faith that believed God‘s Word. And I came from that presence back again to earth, but I was not the same man under the same conditions that had confronted me before. In the name of Jesus, I was a man with a faith that could shake hell.
I said, “Come out of her in the name of Jesus!” She rolled over, fell asleep, and wakened in fourteen hours, perfectly sane and perfectly whole. Oh, there is faith, but Jesus wants to bring us all into a place in line with God where we cease to be, and His faith takes over. God must have the right of way, of thought and of purpose. God must have control.
Thought for today: You cannot know God by nature; you get to know Him by an open door of grace. The way to God is the way of faith; there isn‘t any other way.
神圣的信仰
1月18日
你们要信神。——马可福音 11:22
经文阅读：诗篇 9
我们的信心与耶稣的信心之间有很大的不同。我们的信心是有限的。大多数人已经到了这样的地步，他们会说：‘主啊，我已经走到这一步；现在我无法再前进。我已经用尽了所有的信心，现在我只能停下来祈求更多的信心。’
感谢上帝赐予我们这样的信仰，但还有另一种信仰。我记得有一天在英格兰北部探访一些病人。我被带到一所房子里，一位年轻女子躺在床上。她的理智已经消失，许多事物表现出了邪恶的迹象，我能认出它们是撒旦的。
她只是一个年轻的女人，一个美丽的孩子。然后丈夫，一个年轻人，抱着一个婴儿走进来，他俯身去亲他的妻子。就在他做到的那一刻，她像疯子一样扑到床的另一边，完全没有意识到丈夫的存在。那非常令人心碎。然后他抱起婴儿，把婴儿的嘴贴在母亲的嘴上。她再次疯狂地反应。我对照顾她的一位姐妹说：“你有人来帮忙吗？”
“哦，”她说，“我们什么都有了。”
但我说：“你们没有属灵的帮助吗？”
她的丈夫怒气冲冲地冲了出去，说：“帮助？你以为我们在经历了七周没睡觉和疯狂的状况后会相信上帝？你错了。你来错了地方。”
这让我对这个女人产生了同情，觉得必须为她做些什么。然后，凭着我的信念，我开始用祷告穿透天堂。我从未见过任何人因用世俗的眼光祈祷而从上帝那里得到任何东西。如果你想从上帝那里得到任何东西，你必须向天堂祈祷，因为答案全都在那里。
当我在神的面前看到我信心的局限时，又出现了另一种信心，这是一种无法被否认的信心，一种接受应许的信心，一种相信神话语的信心。我从那圣所回到地上，但我已经不是以前在同样环境中面对挑战的那个人。奉耶稣的名，我成为一个拥有能够震动地狱的信心的人。
我说：“奉耶稣的名，从她里面出来！”她翻了个身，睡着了，十四小时后醒来，完全理智，完全康复。哦，这就是信心，但耶稣想把我们都带到一个与神一致的地方，在那里我们不再存在，而他的信心接管一切。神必须拥有思想和意图的先行权。神必须掌控一切。
今日的思考：你无法凭自然认识神；你是通过恩典的敞开之门认识祂的。通往神的道路是信心之路；没有其他道路。
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