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Do you want any more power or any greater thing than is here mentioned --- power to conquer kingdoms, to shut the mouths of lions, quench fire, turn to flight whole armies, raise the dead to life again? Even if your desires exceed this, you need not despair or hesitate to claim their fulfillment, for One greater than you, One who knew whereof He spoke, said, "All things can be done for the one who believes" (Mk. 9:23).

Until very recently, whenever anyone has spoken of faith as the one power that can move mountains, we have always felt a sort of hopeless discouragement. While we have believed that God holds all good things in His hand, and is willing to be prevailed upon to dole them out according to our faith, yet how could we, even by straining every nerve of our being toward faith, be sure that we had sufficient to please Him? For does it not say, "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Heb. 11:6)?

From the moment we began to ask, we began to question our ability to reach God's standard of faith on which hung our fate. We also began to question whether, after all, there is any such power in faith to prevail with the Giver of "every perfect gift" (Jas. 1:17) so as to draw out of Him something that He had never let us have before.

Viewing faith in this light, there is not much wonder that logical minds have looked on it as a