7. Act on Belief

IS IT HARD FOR YOU to "have faith" today? Is it harder today to be steadfast in faith than it was yesterday? If so, then be grateful rather than dismayed, for therein lies your reward. It exists even within that seeming inability to remain firm in absolute faith. The strong, steady light of unwavering faith of those whom you have seen surmount obstacles and overcome adverse conditions has grown within their hearts in the same way yours is growing within you now. They, too, have prayed not one prayer of faith, but many.

There are problems that try us all, to the very point of despair and heartbreak, and yet, it is at that point we can arise to our greatest conviction and most powerful authority as children of God. It is at that point we take another step forward into a steadier and more assured consciousness of the reality of good. The Father has not mocked His beloved heirs by placing within them a meager supply of faith, just enough to meet a few small trials, but has bestowed upon all a glorious and resurrecting

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