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WALKING BY FAITH

“The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
--1 Cor. 2:14

One cannot read the New Testament without realizing how large a part the element of faith played in the life and works of Jesus. To one who appealed to him for relief he replied, “Be it unto thee according to thy faith.” To another he said, “Thy faith hath saved thee.” While to the woman who said, “If I may but touch the hem of his garment I shall be made whole,” he answered: “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” In all of these expressions of the Master there is an evidence of that which we are coming to believe so strongly in these days of modern psychology concerning the supreme influence of thought upon the physical organism.

Through faith the mind rises above those morbid conditions which make for depression and consequent disease into that higher realm of thought and action where the impossible to sense

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