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A Final Word

In the pages of this book I have shared how my heavenly Father has wrought a
number of tremendous deliverances in my life and that of my family. From healing
my son of a hereditary bone disease that has no known cure, to healing my body from
diabetes, to providing financially for us over the course of many months when He
had called me out from wage earning, in all of these things we have seen the mighty
hand of God supporting us and providing help in the time of need. We have also
looked at examples found in Scripture of men like Abraham, Gideon, Joseph and
David who have received children, won battles, received promotion and seen the
faithfulness of God in a myriad of ways as they have stood firm in their confidence
in Yahweh’s love for them.

I do not want any child of God to think that such faith is the heritage of a few select
men and women. The faith spoken of in this book is that which God desires to see
present in the heart of ALL of His children. It is not some supernatural gift of faith,
as that gift mentioned in I Corinthians 12:8 and 9, that is spoken of here, but rather
that faith that is allotted to EVERY child of God.

Romans 12:3
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more
highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment,
as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

The saints do not need some supernatural gift of faith to manifest confidence in the
love of God. They need only the measure that is given to them to follow Christ
wherever He would lead them. Christ will not lead us into places that are beyond the
measure of our faith to follow. Yet our faith, can be exercised and grow over time. We
need not remain with the same measure of faith that we began with. The principle
of God is true that those who are faithful with little things will be given greater
things. Christ spoke a parable to His disciples that revealed the way to a greater faith.

Luke 19:12-26
So He said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself,
and then return. And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said
to them, ‘Do business with this until I come back...’ When he returned, after
receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the
money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done. The
first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’ And he said to
him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you