Category: Daily Devotionals – Smith Wigglesworth

February 9

If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. — Mark 9:23

Scripture reading: Mark 9:17–29

Nothing has hurt me so much as seeing so-called believers have so much unbelief in them. Suppose that all the people in the world did not believe; that would make no difference to God‘s Word; it would be the same. You cannot alter God‘s Word. It is “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2).

I was preaching on faith one time, and a man in the audience said three times, “I won‘t believe.” I kept right on preaching because that made no difference to me. I am prepared for a fight any day, the fight of faith. We must keep the faith that has been committed to us. I went on preaching, and the man shouted out, “I won‘t believe.” As he left, he cried out again, “I won‘t believe.”

Later, a message came saying that as soon as he got outside, the Spirit said to him, “You will be mute because you did not believe.” It was the same Spirit that came to Zacharias and said, “You will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words” (Luke 1:20).

I believe in a hell. Who is in hell? Unbelievers. Thank God they are there, for they are no good for any society. I said to the leader of that meeting, “You go and see this man and find out if these things are so.”

He went to the house, and the first to greet him was the man‘s wife. He said, “Is it true that your husband declared three times in the meeting that he would not believe and now he cannot speak?”

She burst into tears and said, “Go and see.” He went into the room and saw the man‘s mouth in a terrible state. The man got a piece of paper and wrote, “I had an opportunity to believe. I refused to believe, and now I cannot believe and cannot speak.” The greatest sin in the world is to disbelieve God‘s Word. We are not of those who draw back, but we are of those who believe (Hebrews 10:39); for God‘s Word is a living Word, and it always acts.

Thought for today: If you want to go to hell, all you need to do is to disbelieve the Word of God.

2月9日

你若能信，在信的人，凡事都能。——马可福音 9:23

经文阅读：马可福音 9:17–29

没有什么比看到所谓的信徒心中充满不信更让我受伤了。假设世上的人都不信，这对神的话语没有任何影响；它依旧不变。你不能改变神的话语。它是“从亘古到永远”（诗篇 90:2）。

有一次我在讲关于信仰的道时，台下有一个人三次说：“我不信。”我仍然继续讲道，因为这对我没有任何影响。我随时准备为信仰而战。我们必须坚持所托付给我们的信仰。我继续讲道，那人喊道：“我不信。”他离开时又喊了一次：“我不信。”

后来，有一条信息说，当他一出去，圣灵对他说：“因为你不信，你将变哑。” 这正是那位来到撒迦利亚面前、对他说：“因为你不信我的话，你必哑口，不能说话，直到这些事发生的日子”（路加福音 1:20）的一位圣灵。

我相信地狱。谁在地狱？不信者。感谢上帝，他们在那里，因为他们对任何社会都无益。我对那次会议的领导说，―你去见这个人，弄清楚这些事情是不是真的‖

他走到房子里，第一个迎接他的是那个人的妻子。他说：“是真的吗，你丈夫在会议上三次宣称他不相信，而现在他却说不出话来？”

她突然哭了起来，说：“去看看。”他走进房间，看见那个人的嘴巴状况很糟。那个人拿起一张纸写道：“我曾有机会去相信。我拒绝去相信，现在我既不能相信，也不能说话。”世界上最大的罪就是不信神的话语。我们不是后退的人，而是信的人（希伯来书 10:39）；因为神的话语是生命的话语，并且它总是有效的。

今日思考：如果你想下地狱，你只需要不信上帝的话语。

February 8

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — Ephesians 6:11

Scripture reading: Ephesians 6:10–18

I am more and more convinced every day I live that very few who are saved by the grace of God have a right conception of how great their authority is over darkness, demons, death, and every power of the Enemy. It is a real joy when we realize our inheritance.

I was speaking like this one day, and someone said, “I have never heard anything like this before. How many months did it take you to think up that sermon?”

I said, “My brother, God pressed my wife from time to time to get me to preach, and I promised her I would preach. I used to labor hard for a week to think something up, then give out the text and sit down and say, ‘I am done.‘ Oh, brother, I have given up thinking things up. They all come down. And the sermons that come down, stop down, then go back, because the Word of God says His Word will not return to Him void (Isaiah 55:11). If you get anything up in your own power, it will not stay up very long; when it
goes down, it will take you down with it.”

The sons of God are made manifest in this present earth to destroy the power of the Devil. To be saved by the power of God is to be brought from the realm of the ordinary into the extraordinary, from the natural into the divine.

Do you remember the day when the Lord laid His hands on you? You say, “I could not do anything except praise the Lord.” Well, that was only the beginning. Where are you today? The divine plan is that you increase until you receive the measureless fullness of God. You do not have to say, “I tell you it was wonderful when I was baptized with the Holy Spirit.” If you have to look back to the past to make me know you are baptized, then you are backslidden.

If the beginning was good, it ought to be better day by day, until everybody is fully convinced that you are filled with the might of God in the Spirit, “filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). “Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). I don‘t want anything other than being full and fuller and fuller, until I am overflowing like a great big vat. Do you realize that if you have been created anew and born again by the Word of God that there is within you the word of power and the same light and life as the Son of God Himself had?

God wants to flow through you with measureless power of divine utterance and grace until your whole body is a flame of fire. So many people have been baptized with the Holy Spirit; there was a movement, but they have become monuments, and you cannot move them. God, wake us out of sleep lest we should become indifferent to the glorious truth and the breath of Your almighty power. We must be the light and salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13–14), with the whole armor of God upon us (Ephesians 6:11). It would be a serious thing if the enemies were about and we had to go back and get our shoes. It would be a serious thing if we had on no breastplate.

How can we be furnished with the armor? Take it by faith. Jump in, stop in, and never come out, for this is a baptism to be lost in, where you only know one thing and that is the desire of God at all times. The baptism in the Spirit should be an ever increasing endowment of power, an ever increasing enlargement of grace. Oh, Father, grant us a real look into the glorious liberty You have designed for the children of God, who are delivered from this present world, separated, sanctified, and made suitable for Your use, whom You have designed to be filled with all Your fullness.

Thought for today: God intends each soul in Pentecost to be a live wire—not a monument, but a movement.

2月8日

要穿上神所赐的全副军装，好叫你们能抵挡魔鬼的诡计。——以弗所书 6:11

经文阅读：以弗所书 6:10–18

我每天的生活中越来越相信，只有极少数蒙神恩典得救的人，真正明白他们对黑暗、恶魔、死亡以及敌方一切势力所拥有的权柄有多大。当我们意识到自己的产业时，那真是一种真正的喜乐。

有一天我就是这样说话的，有人说：‘我从来没听过这样的东西。你花了几个月时间才想出那篇布道吗？’

我说，‘我的兄弟，上帝曾时不时地推动我的妻子，让我去传道，我答应了她我会传道。我过去常常辛苦地思考一个礼拜，然后公布经文，坐下来说，‘我完成了。’哦，兄弟，我已经不再自己去想了。一切都是从天而降的。那些降下来的讲道，会先停下，然后又返回，因为神的话说，他的话语绝不会空返回（以赛亚书 55:11）。如果你凭自己的力量想出什么，那也不会维持很久；当它下落时，也会把你带下去。’

神的儿子在现今的世界显现，是为了摧毁魔鬼的权势。借着神的力量得救，就是从平凡的领域进入非凡的领域，从自然进入神圣。

你记得主将手按在你身上的那一天吗？你说：“除了赞美主，我什么也做不了。”好吧，那只是开始。你今天在哪里？神的计划是让你不断增长，直至领受神那无量的丰盛。你不必说：“我告诉你，当我受圣灵洗时，那真是太奇妙了。”如果你必须回顾过去来让我知道你受了洗，那么你就是背道了。

如果一开始就很好，那它应该一天比一天更好，直到每个人都完全相信你充满了神在圣灵里的能力，“充满神一切的丰盛”（以弗所书 3:19）。“不要不要醉酒，酒能使人放荡；要被圣灵充满”（以弗所书 5:18）。我只想被充满、再充满、不断充满，直到我像一个大酒缸一样溢出来。你可曾意识到，如果你通过神的话语被重新创造和重生，那么你里面就有权能的话语，以及与神子自己所拥有的同样的光和生命？

上帝希望通过你流出无尽的神圣启示与恩典的力量，直到你的全身成为熊熊烈火。许多人已经受圣灵洗礼；曾经有过一次运动，但他们已经变成了纪念碑，你无法移动他们。上帝啊，唤醒我们脱离沉睡，免得我们对荣耀的真理和你全能的气息漠不关心。我们必须成为世上的光和盐（马太福音 5:13–14），全副穿上神的全副军装（以弗所书 6:11）。如果敌人在周围而我们必须回去拿鞋，那将是件严重的事。如果我们没有穿护心甲，那也将是件严重的事。

我们如何才能装备上全副军装呢？凭信心接受它。投入其中，全然停留，不再离开，因为这是一次要完全沉浸其中的洗礼，在这里你只知道一件事，那就是时时刻刻渴望神的心意。圣灵的洗礼应当是恩能不断增长，恩典不断扩展。哦，父啊，请赐我们真正看到您为神的儿女设计的荣耀自由，那些人从现今的世界中得释放，被分别、成圣，并为您的使用而适合，是您所预定要被充满您一切丰盛的人。

今日思考：上帝打算让五旬节中的每一个灵魂都是一条活电线——不是纪念碑，而是一个行动的力量。

February 7

Where is your faith? — Luke 8:25

Scripture reading: Luke 8:21–39

The Word of God is not only wonderful, but also powerful. Any natural condition can be changed by the Word of God, which is a supernatural power. In the Word of God is the breath, the nature, and the power of the living God, and His power works in every person who dares to believe His Word. There is life through the power of it, and as we receive the Word of faith, we receive the nature of God Himself.

It is as we lay hold of God‘s promises in simple faith that we become partakers of the divine nature. As we receive the Word of God, we come right into touch with a living force, a power that changes nature into grace, a power that makes dead things live, and a power that is of God, that will be manifested in our flesh. This power has come forth with its glory to transform us by divine acts into sons of God, to make us like the Son of God, by the Spirit of God who moves us on from grace to grace and from glory to glory as our faith rests in this living Word.

It is important that we have a foundational truth, something greater than ourselves, on which to rest. In Hebrews 12:2 we read, “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Jesus is our life, and He is the power of our life. We see in the fifth chapter of Acts that as soon as Peter was let out of prison, the Word of God came: “Go…speak…all the words of this life” (Acts 5:20).

There is only one Book that has life. In this Word we find Him who came that we might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10), and by faith this life is imparted to us. When we come into this life by divine faith—and we must realize that it is by grace we are saved through faith, and that it is not of ourselves but “is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8)—we become partakers of this life. This Word is greater than anything else. There is no darkness in it at all. Anyone who dwells in this Word is able under all circumstances to say that he is willing to come to the light so that his deeds may be seen (John 3:21). But outside of the Word is darkness, and the manifestations of darkness will never desire to come to the light because their deeds are evil. But the moment we are saved by the power of the Word of God, we love the light and the truth. The inexpressible divine power, force, passion, and fire that we receive are of God. Drink, my beloved, drink deeply of this Source of life.

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for” (Hebrews 11:1). Someone said to me one day, “I would not believe in anything I could not handle and see.” Everything you can handle and see is temporary and will perish with the using. But the things not seen are eternal and will not fade away. Are you dealing with tangible things or with the things that are eternal, that are facts, that are made real to faith? Thank God that through the knowledge of the truth of the Son of God, I have within me a greater power, a mightier working, an inward impact of life, of power, of vision, and of truth more real than anyone can know who lives in the realm of the tangible.

Thought for today: God manifests Himself to the person who dares to believe.

2月7日

你的信心在哪里？——路加福音 8:25

经文阅读：路加福音 8:21–39

神的话语不仅是奇妙的，而且是有能力的。任何自然状况都可以被神的话语改变，而神的话语是一种超自然的力量。在神的话语中有活神的气息、性质和能力，并且祂的能力在每一个敢于相信祂话语的人身上运作。通过它的能力有生命，当我们接受信心的话语时，我们就接受了神本人的本性。

正是当我们以单纯的信心抓住神的应许时，我们才能成为神性的一份子。当我们接受神的话语时，我们就与一种活生生的力量接触，这种力量能够将本性转化为恩典，使死物重生，并且这力量来自神，将在我们的肉体上显现出来。这力量带着荣耀而来，通过神圣的作为改变我们，使我们成为神的儿女，使我们像神的儿子，借着神的灵推动我们，从恩典到恩典，从荣耀到荣耀，当我们的信心安息在这活生生的话语上时。这一切都将实现。

重要的是，我们必须有一个基础性的真理，一个比我们自身更伟大的事物来支撑我们。在《希伯来书》12章2节中，我们读到：“仰望为我们信心创始成终的耶稣。”耶稣是我们的生命，祂也是我们生命的力量。我们在《使徒行传》第五章中看到，一旦彼得被释放出监狱，上帝的话语就来了：“你去……讲……这生命的一切话” （使徒行传 5:20）。

只有一本书具有生命。在这本话语中，我们找到那位来使我们得生命并得更丰盛生命的主（约翰福音 10:10），并且藉着信心，这生命会传给我们。当我们藉着神的信心得到这生命时——我们必须明白，我们是因恩典藉着信心得救，这并不是出于自己，而是“神的恩赐”（以弗所书 2:8）——我们就成为这生命的参与者。这话语比其他任何东西都伟大，它完全没有黑暗。任何住在这话语中的人，在任何情况下都能说他愿意来到光中，使自己所行的显出来（约翰福音 3:21）。但在话语之外是黑暗，而黑暗的显现永远不会愿意来到光中。因为他们的行为是邪恶的。但在我们借着神话语的能力得救的那一刻，我们就会爱上光和真理。我们所接受的那不可言喻的神圣能力、力量、热情与烈火都来自神。亲爱的，喝吧，尽情喝这生命的源泉。

“信就是所望之事的实底”（来 11:1）。有一天有人对我说：“我不相信任何我无法掌握和看见的东西。”你所能掌握和看见的一切都是暂时的，用之必坏。但那些看不见的东西是永恒的，不会消逝。你是在处理可触摸的事物，还是在处理永恒的、事实的、通过信心得以实现的事物呢？感谢上帝，通过认识神子的真理，我内心拥有更大的力量，更强的作工，生命的内在冲击，能力、远见和比生活在可触摸领域的人更为真实的真理。

今日的思考：上帝会向敢于相信的人显现自己。

February 6

For by [faith] the elders obtained a good testimony. — Hebrews 11:2

Scripture reading: Hebrews 11:1–13

The first manifestation of God‘s plan was the cross of Calvary. You may refuse it; You may resist it; but God, who loves you “with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3), has followed you through life and will follow you with His great grace, so that He may bring you to a knowledge of this great salvation.

God, in His own plan for your eternal good, may have brought something into your life that is distasteful, something that is causing you to feel desperate or to feel that your life is worthless. What does it mean? It means that the Spirit of God is showing you your own weakness so that you might cry out to Him, and when you do, He will show you the cross of redemption. Then God will give you faith to believe, for faith is the gift of God.

God, who has given us this faith, has a wonderful plan for our lives. Do you remember when God brought you to this place of salvation, how the faith He gave you brought a great desire to do something for Him, and then He showed you that wonderful open door? I was saved over sixty-seven years ago, and I have never lost the witness of the Spirit. If you will not allow your human nature to crush your faith and interfere with God‘s plan in its wonderful divine setting, you will mount up like the eagles (Isaiah 40:31). Oh, the wonderful effectiveness of God‘s perfect plan working in us with the divine Trinity flowing through humanity, changing our very nature to the extent that we cannot disbelieve but must act faith, talk faith, and in faith sing praises to the Lord! There is no room for anything that is not faith, for we have passed beyond the natural plane into a new atmosphere where God encloses us.

Faith is an increasing position, always triumphant. It is not a place of poverty but of wealth. If you always live in fruitfulness, you will always have plenty. What does it say in our text? “The elders obtained a good testimony.” The man who lives in faith always has a good testimony. The Acts of the Apostles were written because the lives of the apostles bore the fruit of active faith. To them, faith was an everyday fact. If your life is in the divine order, you will not only have a living, active faith, but also a faith that builds up others.

What is the good of preaching without faith? God intends that we should live in this glorious sphere of the power of God so that we will always be in a position to tell people of the act that brought the fact. What is the good of praying for the sick without faith? You must believe that God will not deny Himself, for the Word of God cannot be denied. I believe this message is given in divine order so that you may no longer be in a place of doubt but will realize that “faith is the substance” (Hebrews 11:1). Beloved, even with all the faith we have, we are not even so much as touching the hem of God‘s plan for us. It is like going to the seashore and dipping your toe in the water, with the great vast ocean before you. God wants us to rise on the crest of the tide and not keep paddling along the shore. Oh, to be connected with that sublime power, so that human nature may know God and the glory of the manifestation of Christ!

The Word of God is eternal and cannot be broken. You cannot improve on the Word of God, for it is life, and it produces life. Listen! God has begotten you to “a living hope” (1 Peter 1:3). You are born again of the Word that created worlds. If you dare to believe, such belief is powerful. God wants us to be powerful, a people of faith, a purified people, a people who will launch out in God and dare to trust Him in glorious faith, which always takes us beyond what is commonplace to an abiding place in God.

Thought for today: You must act before you can see the fact.

2月6日

因信，众先知得了美好的证据。——希伯来书 11:2

经文阅读：希伯来书 11:1–13

上帝计划的第一个显现是加略山的十字架。你可以拒绝它；你可以抗拒它；但是爱你“以永远的爱”（耶利米书 31:3）的上帝，已在你的一生中伴随你，并将以祂的大恩典继续跟随你，以便将你引向对这伟大救恩的认识。

上帝按照祂对你永恒益处的计划，可能把一些令人不悦的东西带入了你的生活，这些东西可能让你感到绝望或者觉得自己的生命毫无价值。这意味着什么呢？这意味着上帝的灵在向你展示你自己的软弱，好让你向祂呼求，当你这样做时，祂会向你显示救赎的十字架。然后上帝会给你信心去相信，因为信心是上帝的礼物。

上帝赐给了我们这份信心，也为我们的生命制定了一个奇妙的计划。你还记得上帝把你带到这个得救的境地时吗？祂赐给你的信心如何激发了你为祂做点什么的强烈愿望，然后祂向你展示了那扇美妙的大门？我是在六十七年前得救的，从那时起我从未失去圣灵的见证。如果你不让人的本性毁灭你的信心，也不让它干扰神在其奇妙神圣环境中的计划，你就会像鹰一样展翅高飞（以赛亚书 40:31）。哦，上帝完美计划在我们身上的奇妙效力，三位一体的神性流经人性，改变我们本身的性质，以至于我们不能不信，只能凭信心行事、说信心、并在信心中歌颂主！没有任何不属于信心的空间，因为我们已经超越了自然层面，进入了上帝将我们包围的新气氛中。

信心是一种不断增长的状态，总是胜利的。它不是贫穷的境地，而是富足的地方。如果你总是生活在丰盛之中，你就会永远拥有充足。我们的经文中说了什么？“长老们获得了好见证。”那个生活在信心中的人总是有好见证的。使徒行传之所以被写下，是因为使徒们的生活结出了积极信心的果实。对他们来说，信心是日常的事实。如果你的生活在神的秩序中，你不仅会拥有活生生、积极的信仰，还会拥有能够造就他人的信仰。

没有信心的传道有什么好处？上帝意图我们生活在这荣耀的神权能领域，这样我们才能永远有机会告诉人们导致这一事实的行为。没有信心为病人祈祷有什么好处？你必须相信神不会否认自己，因为神的话语不可否认。我相信这信息是按神的顺序传达的，这样你就不会再处于怀疑的境地，而是会明白“信心是本质”（希伯来书11：1）。亲爱的，即使我们拥有所有的信心，我们也连上帝为我们安排的计划的边角都没有触碰。这就像走到海边，把脚趾浸入水中，眼前是辽阔的海洋。上帝希望我们顺着潮流的浪潮上升，而不是继续沿着岸边划桨。哦，能与那崇高的力量相连，使人类本能认识上帝和基督显现的荣耀！

神的话是永恒的，不能被打破。你无法改进神的话，因为它是生命，并且产生生命。听啊！神生了你，得着“活的盼望”（彼前 1:3）。你是由创造世界的话重生的。如果你敢于相信，这种信心是有力量的。神希望我们成为有能力的、信心的百姓，一群洁净的百姓，一群在神里面大步前行、敢于以荣耀的信心信靠他的人，这种信心总是把我们从寻常带到在神里面永恒的居所。

今日的思考：你必须先行动，才能看清事实。

February 5

For in [the gospel of Christ] the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” — Romans 1:17

Scripture reading: Romans 1:5–20

What is faith? It is the very nature of God. Faith is the Word of God. It is the personal inward flow of divine favor, which moves in every fiber of our being until our whole nature is so quickened that we live by faith, we move by faith, and we are going to be caught up to glory by faith! Faith is the glorious knowledge of a personal presence within you, changing you from strength to strength, from glory to glory, until you get to the place where you walk with God, and God thinks and speaks through you by the power of the Holy Spirit. Oh, it is grand; it is glorious!

God wants us to have far more than what we can handle and see, and so He speaks of “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). With the eye of faith, we may see the blessing in all its beauty and grandeur. God‘s Word is “from everlasting to everlasting” (Psalm 90:2), and “faith is the substance” (Hebrews 11:1).

If I would give some woman a piece of cloth, scissors, needle, and thread, she could produce a garment. Why? Because she had the material. If I would provide some man with wood, a saw, a hammer, and nails, he could produce a box. Why? Because he had the material. But God, without material, spoke the Word and produced this world with all its beauty. There was no material there, but the Word of God called it into being by His creative force. With the knowledge that you are born again by this incorruptible Word, which lives and abides forever (1 Pet. 1:23), you know that within you is this living, definite hope, greater than yourself, more powerful than any dynamic force in the world, for faith works in you by the power of the new creation of God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, with the audacity of faith, we should throw ourselves into the omnipotence of God‘s divine plan, for God has said to us, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes” (Mark9:23). It is possible for the power of God to be so manifest in your human life that you will never be as you were before; you will be always going forward from victory to victory, for faith knows no defeat.

The Word of God will bring you into a wonderful place of rest in faith. God intends for you to have a clear conception of what faith is, how faith came, and how it remains. Faith is in the divine plan, for it brings you to the open door so that you might enter in. You must have an open door, for you cannot open the door. It is God who does it, but He wants you to be ready to step in and claim His promises of all the divine manifestations of power in the name of Christ Jesus. It is only then that you will be able to meet and conquer the enemy, for “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

Living faith brings glorious power and personality; it gives divine ability, for it is by faith that Christ is manifested in your mortal flesh by the Word of God. I do not want you to miss the knowledge that you have heard from God, and I want you to realize that God has changed you so that all weakness, fear, inability—everything that has made you a failure—has passed away.

Thought for today: Faith has power to make you what God wants you to be; only you must be ready to step into the plan and believe His Word.

2月5日

因为神的义正在福音中显明出来，这义是本于信，以至于信；正如经上所记：“义人必因信得生。” ——罗马书 1:17

经文阅读：罗马书 1:5–20

什么是信心？它就是上帝的本性。信心就是上帝的话语。它是神圣恩典的个人内在流动，作用于我们存在的每一个纤维，直到我们的整个本性被激活，以至于我们因信而生活，因信而行动，并且我们将因信被提到荣耀中！信心是个人内在临在的荣耀知识，它在你里面运行，使你从力量到力量，从荣耀到荣耀，直到你达到与神同行的境地，并且神借着圣灵的能力在你里面思考和说话。哦，这真是宏伟；真是荣耀无比！

神希望我们拥有远超过我们所能承受和看到的，所以祂说“所望之事的实底，未见之事的确据”（希伯来书 11:1）。凭着信心的眼睛，我们可以看到祝福的美丽与宏伟。神的话语是“从亘古到永远的”（诗篇 90:2），而“信就是所望之事的实底”（希伯来书 11:1）。

如果我给某个女人一块布、剪刀、针和线，她就能制作一件衣服。为什么？因为她有材料。如果我给某个男人木头、一把锯、一把锤子和钉子，他就能制作一个箱子。为什么？因为他有材料。但是神没有材料，却说出话语，并用这话语创造了这个世界及其一切美丽。那里没有材料，但神的话语通过祂的创造力量使之存在。你若知道自己是借着这不朽的话语重生的——这话语永远长存且永不衰退（彼得前书1:23）——你就会明白，在你里面有这样一个活生生的、确定的盼望，它比你自身更伟大，比世上任何动态的力量都更强大，因为信心在你里面起作用，是借着神在基督耶稣里的新创造的力量。

因此，凭着信心的勇气，我们应将自己投入上帝全能的神圣计划中，因为上帝对我们说：“你若能信，在信的人，凡事都能成”（马可福音 9:23）。上帝的力量是如此强大，以至于可以做到在你的人生中显现出来，你将不再如从前；你将不断从一个胜利走向另一个胜利，因为信念从不认输。

神的话语将带领你进入信心中奇妙的安息之地。上帝希望你能够清楚地理解什么是信心，信心是如何产生的，以及它如何持续。信心是神圣计划的一部分，因为它将你带到敞开的门前，好让你进入。你必须有一扇敞开的门，因为你无法自己打开这扇门。是上帝来做到这一切，但祂希望你准备好踏入其中，凭借耶稣基督的名宣告祂在各样神圣大能中的应许。只有这样，你才能够遇见并战胜敌人，因为“住在你们里面的，比住在世界上的更大”（约翰一书4:4）。

活的信心带来荣耀的力量和个性；它赋予神圣的能力，因为正是通过信心，基督才通过神的话语在你凡人的肉体中显现。我不希望你错过从神那里所听到的知识，我希望你明白神已经改变了你，以至于所有的软弱、恐惧、无能——一切使你失败的东西——都已经消逝。

今日思考：信仰有能力使你成为上帝希望你成为的人；前提是你必须准备好迈入祂的计划并相信祂的话语。