PILEUP YOUR SECURITIES
One reason people have weak or little faith is due to a continual emphasis on their insecurities.
As a result, they develop a haunting feeling that something bad is going to happen. Over them constantly rests a cloud of sinister uncertainty.
One cannot mentally dwell upon insecurity without feeling insecure. And faith has great difficulty in taking root in a soil of insecurity.
To counteract this unhappy situation and negative influence in your life begin at once to dwell upon and emphasize the security factors in your life. Add up your “securities.”
If you felt poor, but had a number of securities in the safety deposit box in the bank you could go there, add them up and leave feeling pretty secure financially.
Similarly, make a list of the dependable and secure factors with which you are surrounded. Such things as the good earth, whose seed time and harvest can be depended upon. The sun never fails to come back and shine through the clouds. You have the love of your wife or husband, the love of children. Your heart still beats. You can eat and walk and think.
Go on and add to the list and over it all write the words “God” and “Jesus Christ.” As you habitually add up your securities, feelings of insecurity will diminish. Your faith will grow stronger.
Faith Passages
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. (Psalm 18:2)
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13)
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10)
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. (Psalm 46:2)
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8:28)
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