A friend... said, "You were healed by faith." "Oh, no," I said, "I was healed by Christ." What is the difference?
There is a great difference.
There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus.
I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold.
I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.
--A. B. Simpson (Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance)
There is a great difference.
There came a time when even faith seemed to come between me and Jesus.
I thought I should have to work up the faith, so I laboured to get the faith. At last I thought I had it; that if I put my whole weight upon it, it would hold.
I said, when I thought I had got the faith, "Heal me." I was trusting in myself, in my own heart, in my own faith. I was asking the Lord to do something for me because of something in me, not because of something in Him.
--A. B. Simpson (Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance)
