E.W. Kenyon - The Two Kinds of Faith: Faiths Secret Revealed

E. W. KENYON

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ISBN 978-1-57770-070-8

Twenty fi rst P ri nting

Copyr i ght 2013 by

KENYONS GOSPEL PUBLISHING SOCIETY

Printed in U.S .A .

THE CASE STATED

Unanswered prayers stand between the individual and a faith life.

Some have lost faith altogether. Many have turned to philosophical and metaphysical cults because their prayer lives were failures.

If we should ask the individual what he believes to be his greatest difficulty in his Christian walk, I believe invariably his answer would be, I havent enough faith. I know it is not Gods fault. I know the promises are there in the Word. I have simply fa iled to get faith. I have prayed for it; I have fasted for it; but I dont know how to get it .

This little conversation took place between a husband and wife over the breakfast table:

No, I am not losing my confidence in the Bible, but it does seem to me that after the years we have attended church we should have gotten somewhere.

Today in the office the question of faith came up and I found that I had none. That is, I didnt have any positive, clear-cut faith in the Word as I have in business.

I have faith in the things that we manufacture. I know that they will do the things we advertise they will do.

I dont know that Gods Word will do the thing that it is advertised to do. I would like to know where the difficulty is.

Down at the office, when we face a problem we solve it, but in our church we just cover it up. We ignore it. I have ignored it as long as I can. I must know !

This is the reason for this book. We have written it to answer the faith problem for thinking men and women.

Chapter I

THE BASIS FOR FAITH

THIS faith business has me whipped, said a young man the other day.

The pastor preached on it Sunday. He didnt tell me how to get faith, but he told me the necessity of it, told what it could do.

He quoted those wonderful sentences from the lips of the Master, All things are possible to him that beli ev eth . If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed

I have tried to get it. I have done everything that I knew or anyone else could tell me, but it seems to be so elusive. Can you tell me where the difficulty lies?

I liked him. He was so frank, so genuine. The distress in his eyes challenged me.

I said to him, Faith comes through the Word of God.

You have faith in the man for whom you work; if he promises you a raise in your salary, you wouldnt question it.

You have faith in the bank where you do business. If they told you that your account was overdrawn, you wouldnt question it.

You know that you and your word are one. You are back of your word, back of every word that you promise.

God and His Word are one. God is back of every Word that He promises. Not only is He back of it, but His throne is back of His Word.

He said, I watch over my Word to perform it .

He is a business man. He knows that His Word is the foundation of everything, so He stands back of it.

Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away /

This is the thing that gives faith... the integrity of this Word.

Faith comes by hearing the Word, understanding it, by it becoming a part of us.

I am going to say a hard thing. I am sure you will understand me. Lying and deceit and dishonesty are the badges of the world.

We see it in international relationship between nations.

They have their secret service men listening in everywhere, robbing each other of blueprints of warships, etc ., until there is no chance of security anywhere.

This is the reason for our unbelief. The air is pregnant with it. When we come up against the Word of God which cannot lie and cannot be challenged, somehow or other we are unprepared to accept it.

Satan is a liar and he is the god of this world.

Jesus came as a Revelation of Truth. He is the only one who ever made men become honest, when to tell the truth meant that they would be burned at the stake.

Here we see the foundation of this Faith. You come to know Jesus through the word. He introduces you to the Father.

Then you begin to act on the Word, to test it out, as it were.

After a bit you will find that acting on what Jesus said, or the Father said, becomes as natural as acting on the word of the man for whom you are working.

He said after careful thought, Thank you. I believe I have learned something I have never seen before.

One Foundation

There is but one foundation for Faith, the Living Word.

As we become one with the Word in our actions, then faith becomes an unconscious reality.

You never think of your Faith, you only think of the need and His ability to meet it.

If you wish faith to grow and become robust and strong, soak in the Word, feed on it, meditate on it, until you become one with it in the sense that you are one with your business.

Find out what you are in Christ, what your privileges are, what He thinks of you, what He says of y o u.

You will find all this in the Word.

Chapter II

WHAT FAITH IS

FA I TH is giving substance to things hoped for .

Faith is grasping the unrealities of hope and bringing them into the realm of reality.

Faith grows out of the Word of God.

It is the warranty deed that the thing for which you have fondly hoped is at last yours.

It is the evidence of things not seen.

You hope for finances to meet that obligation; faith gives assurance that you will have the money when you need it.

You hope for physical strength to do the work that you know you must do.

Faith says, God is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

Sense Knowledge has given to the church Mental Assent, which looks so much like faith that many people cannot see the difference.

Mental Assent is seeing it, admiring it, saying it is true, but not in my case.

Mental Assent agrees that the Bible is a Revelation, that it came from God, and that every Word is true, and yet when the crisis comes it does not work. It simply recognizes the truthfulness of that wonderful Book, but it does not act upon it.

Hope says, I will get it sometime.

Faith says, I have it now.

Mental Assent says, It is beautiful. I know I should have it. For some reason I dont get it. I cannot understand it.

Sense Knowledge faith says, When I see it, when I feel it, I will know I have it .

Real faith in the Word says, If God says it is true, it is. If He says that By His stripes I am healed , I am. If He says that God shall supply every need of mine , He will do it. If God says He is the strength of my life , He is. So I go about doing my work because He is what He says He is, and I am what He says I am.

If He says that I am strong, I am.

If He says that I am healed, I am.

If He says that He cares for me, I know that He does.

So quietly I rest on His Word, irrespective of evidences that would satisfy the Senses.

Real Faith is built on the Word.

It is untarnished by Sense Knowledge.

It is as unconscious of itself as is the faith of a little child in its mother.

The child never says, Now Mother, I believe your word. I know that if I ask you for a piece of bread you will give it to me. If it said such things it would frighten the mother. She would wonder what had happened to her child.

We have built around faith a strange wordology that is like a barb-wire entanglement.