Hannah p.125 Faith isn’t something we have to work up; it is something God sends down to let us know He is pleased with our prayer request. True faith is strengthened by the promises of God that the Holy Spirit shows us in Scripture. As we pray, there is a growing confidence in our hearts that the Bible calls “joy and peace in believing” (Romans 15:13)
p.126 - One of the dangers of answered prayer is that we permit the gift to.become more important than the Giver, and this is idolatry. Whatever God gives us must be places on the alter and dedicated to Him, or it will become a stumbling block in our lives. Our lives, our lives ones and friends, our plans, our possessions, our opportunities and achievements, our abilities - all of these things and more must be places at the feet of Jesus before God can bless and use them for His glory. Like seeds, we must be. Irked and experience death before we can produce fruit (John 12/24), for it is out of death to self that we discover life for others.
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