[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0512":3},"MAY 12\r\nAll things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9.:23).\r\nThe \"all things\" do not always come simply for the asking, for the reason that God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith fife there must be room for the trial\r\nof faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, the\r\ncourage of faith, & often many stages are passed before we really realize what is the end of faith, namely, the victory of faith.\r\nReal moral fiber is developed through discipline of faith. You have\r\nmade your request of God, but the answer does not come. What are\r\n\r\nyou to do?\r\nKeep on believing God's Word; never be moved away from it by what\r\nyou see or fell, & thus as you stand steady, enlarged power &\r\nexperience is being developed. The fact of looking at the apparent   contradiction to God's Word & being unmoved from your position of faith make you stronger on every other line.\r\nOften God delays purposely, & the delay is just as much an answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.\r\nIn the lives of all the great Bible characters, God worked thus.\r\nAbraham, Moses & Elijah were not great in the beginning, but were made great through the discipline of their faith, & only thus were\r\nthey fitted for the positions to which God had called them.\r\nfor example, in the case of Joseph whom the Lord was training for the throne of Egypt, we read in the Psalms: \"The Word of the Lord tried him.\" It was not the prison life with its hard beds or poor\r\nfood that tried him, but it was the Word God had spoken into his\r\nheart in the early years concerning elevation & honor which were\r\ngreater than his brethren were to receive; it was this which was\r\never before h I'm, when every step in his career made it seem more & more impossible of fulfillment, until he was there imprisoned, &\r\nall in innocency, while others who were perhaps justly\r\nincarcerated, were released, & he was left to languish alone.\r\nThese were hours that tried his soul, but hours of spiritual growth & development, that \"when his word came\" (the word of release), found him fitted for the delicate task of dealing with his wayward   brethren, with a love & patience only surpassed by God Himself.\r\nNo amount of persecution tries like such experiences as these. When   God has spoken of His purpose to do, & yet the days go on & He does not do it, that is truly hard; but it is a discipline of faith that\r\nwill bring us into a knowledge of God which would otherwise be impossible.",1783499793017]