Help Thou Mine Unbelief

Verse 23, And Jesus said unto
him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him
that believeth. And straightway the father of
the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe. Now, I can truthfully say this,
sincerely, from my heart, as Paul said, God being my witness,
Lord, I do believe. I believe many of you can say
that. Lord, I believe. I do believe. But I can also say the next statement or line Which this
father of the possessed child uttered help mine Unbelief I
grieve over my lack of faith. Do you? I'm troubled over unbelief
And in my message tonight for my benefit and for yours. I want to look at the subject
of faith and point out some things that I believe God has taught
me and that will be helpful to me and helpful to you. The first
of which is this, and we need to learn this, everything that
goes by the name faith is not saving faith. Now that's so. Everything that goes by the name
faith. Now my friends, religionists
have many things that look like saving faith, that look like
salvation, that appear to be a genuine knowledge of Christ.
A man like Nicodemus could speak well of Christ and still not
have saving faith. He came to Christ by night and
he said, Master, Rabbi, we know that you're a teacher come from
God. No man could do what you do except
God be with him. He spoke highly of Christ. Also
Pilate spoke highly of Christ. He said I find no fault in him
he had examined him and the presence of the people and he said I find
no fault in him and one day a group of Roman officers who were sent
by the Chief priest and elders to arrest the Savior came back
and said this When the elders and chief priest said well, where
is he they replied? I? Well, no man ever spake like
this man. We couldn't arrest him. We were
amazed by what he said. He's a great man. He's an unusual
man. And these Pharisees, this chief
priest and elders said, are you deceived by him? None of us have
believed on him. Has he deceived you? An unsaved
religionist, a man who has a false faith, can speak well of Christ. And then secondly, I want you
to turn to Luke 18. A man who does not have saving
faith also cannot only speak well of Christ, but he can reform
the outward man. In Luke 18, beginning with verse
11, we have this man who was a Pharisee praying in the temple.
Christ said he prayed with himself. God, I thank Thee I'm not like
other men. I'm not an extortioner, I'm not
unjust, I'm not an adulterer, I'm not even like this publican.
I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all I possess. This
man had an outwardly moral, commendable, religious, good life, but he
was not a man of faith. And then religionists not only
speak well of Christ and not only reform the outward man,
but they get excited over religion. Turn with me to Mark chapter
4. Our Lord, giving the parable of the sower here, tells us in
Mark 4, verse 16. Listen to this. And these are
they likewise, Mark 4, 16, which are sown on stony ground, who
when they've heard the word, receive it, how? They receive
it with gladness, rejoicing, excitement. But having no root
in themselves, they have no root and so endure but for a time. Afterward, when affliction and
persecution arises for the word's sake, they are offended. But
for a time, they're excited. And for a time, they receive
the word with gladness and show much enthusiasm over religion. A man can be religiously enthusiastic
and excited and not have real faith. And then, these unsaved
religionists also can show great sorrow over sin. Turn to Matthew
27, I'll show you an example of this. In Matthew 27, beginning
with verse 3, Matthew 27, verse 3, Judas betrayed the Lord, sold
Him for 30 pieces of silver, and then he came back to the
Pharisees and brought the money and threw it on the floor in
the temple. Verse 3, Judas, which had betrayed him when he saw
that he was condemned, repented himself, was sorry, and he brought
the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priest and elder saying,
I have sinned, I have sinned. It's not only a believer that
says, I have sinned, but an unsaved man can say the same thing. I've
betrayed innocent blood. And they said, what's that to
us? See thou to that. And he cast the pieces of silver
in the temple and departed, went out and hanged himself. Also unsaved religionists, people
who do not have genuine faith, saving faith, are baptized and
join the church. There was a man named Simon Magus.
He had the apostles baptize him, join the church, enthusiastically. And then he saw one of the apostles
laying hands upon a man, and the man received the Holy Spirit.
He reached in his pocket and said, I tell you what, you just
tell me the price and I'll give you the money if you'll sell
me that gift. Peter said, Simon, your heart's not right with God.
Your money perished with you. But here was a man, unsaved,
but had been baptized and joined the church. And then they performed
great works. You know, turn to Matthew 7.
Now, our Lord, in Matthew 7, did not deny that these people
had done these works. These who appeared at the judgment,
listen to them. In Matthew 7, 22, many will say
to me in that day, Lord, Have we not cast out, have we not
prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils,
and in thy name done many wonderful works? He didn't deny that they'd
done works. But here's what he said, I will
profess unto them, I never knew ye, depart from me, ye that work. You have works, but they're works
of iniquity. This thing of saving faith, When we meet with a religious
person, it's not always saving faith that they have. These people
can produce many things. They can speak well of Christ.
They can reform their outward man. They can get excited over
religion. They can manifest sorrow for
sin. They can be baptized and join the church. They even can
do unusual works, casting out devils, preaching, wonderful
works they call it. But there are four things, now
I want you to listen to this and this will help you, I think
it helps me. There are four things that a, that a religionist cannot
produce. There are four things he cannot
experience, there are four things he cannot counterfeit. Satan
cannot counterfeit these four things. These four things are
only, are only present where they're saving faith. The first
one is found in Psalm 51. Now, let's look over there. These four things cannot be counterfeited. Now, Satan can send a man out
to speak highly of Christ. Well, the demons spoke highly
of him. They said, we know who you are. You're the Holy One
of Israel. Have you come to torment us before
our time? They can clean up the outward
man. Even Satan transforms himself into what? Angel of light and
his messengers into ministers of righteousness. He can invade
the church. Men have crept in, evil men,
ordained of old to this condemnation, crept in unaware to lead the
hearts of the people of God away from Christ, denying the Lord
God. Here's one thing that Satan can't
counterfeit. The unsaved religionist, with
all of his external excitement and gladness and rejoicing and
enthusiasm and morality and all these things, he can never produce
a heart broken toward God because of his sin. Never. In Psalm 51,
here is a man of faith. In Psalm 51, he cried, Have mercy
upon me, O God, According to thy loving kindness according
to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out Underscore it
my my transgressions The put the what the Pharisee say I thank
you. I'm not like other me I Tithe I fast I give alms. I'm not this
that near what David say Oh God blot out my transgressions wash
me throughly throughly from mine iniquity cleanse me from all
my sin. Are you looking at this word,
my transgressions, my iniquity, my sin? I acknowledge my transgression,
my sin is ever before me. An unsaved religionist may talk
of sin in general. You hear them talk about, oh,
how awful people are living today, how awful people are behaving
today. They pick up the newspaper and say, isn't it terrible, the
things that are going on around us? Yeah, but what about what's
going on in you? You grieve over that? Listen
to these unsaved religionists, like Isaiah in chapter 4, war
unto them, war unto them, war unto them, war unto them five
times. When he met the Lord, what did he say? Woe is me. You hear the unsaved religionist,
he'll talk about sin in general, but never his own sin. He may
even acknowledge some faults. Well, I'm not perfect. But he'll
never acknowledge that he sinned against a holy God. Repentance
is born of godly sorrow, not earthly sorrow, godly sorrow.
It's realizing not that you've offended some person, but that
you've offended God. It's realizing that you've sinned
not against society, but against God. The unsaved religionist
may even confess his faults to men. He may even have in his
vocabulary, occasionally, I'm sorry. But he never falls on
his face before God and cries out, O God, blot out my transgressions. I acknowledge my transgression,
my sin is ever before me. Yet the Word of God plainly says,
if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive
us. If any man say he hath no sin, he's a liar and the truth's
not in him. And he makes God a liar. And
he that hideth his sin shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth
and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy. You won't find an unsaved
religionist crying, grieving, mourning over his sin. Now he'll
mourn over the world's sin. He'll mourn over the bootleggers
and mourn over all of the people out yonder who are gambling and
drinking and running around and doing all these things, but he'll
never mourn over his sin because he's never seen them. Secondly,
verse 4, the unsaved religionist, he can produce a lot of things,
but secondly, he will never, never, never, never justify God
in condemning him. Now you look at verse 4. David
said, Against thee and thee only have I sinned, and done this
evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified when thou
speakest, and clear when thou judgest." Lord, if you speak
condemnation to me, you're absolutely just. If you condemn me, you're
absolutely just. You're absolutely holy and absolutely
righteous. If you're not pleased to forgive
me, if you're not pleased to cleanse me, if you're not pleased
to save me, if you're pleased to pass me by and send me to
hell, that's exactly what I deserve. No unsaved religious Pharisee
will ever say that. Peter did. He saw the power of
Christ demonstrated one day, and he was so overwhelmed by
the power of Christ and the holiness of Christ and his own sinfulness,
he turned to Christ and said, Lord, depart from me! Depart
from me! I'm a sinful man! You've got
no business keeping company with me. But that's not the language
of this generation. This generation has an over-familiarity
with the holiness, an over-familiarity with God, an over-familiarity
with Jesus Christ the Savior. The Canaanite woman, our Lord
said, it's not fit, it's not right to give children's bread
to dogs, and she said, that's so. That's so. Let me ask you
tonight, if it came down to this, And I pointed my finger personally
at you and said it's not right for a holy God to associate with
folks like you. Would you say that's so? It's
not right for a holy God to take the sacred things of God and
give them to folks like you and me. Could you say that's so? And if God passes you by, you
know this generation thinks God is obligated to us, God owes
us something. God owes us something, all right.
He owes us the wages of sin, that's what He owes us, which
is death. But an unsaved religionist, he
can produce a lot of things. He can produce morality, and
he can produce works, and he can produce enthusiasm, he can
produce excitement, he can produce all those things, but he cannot
genuinely actually in his heart say, Lord, if you pass me by,
You'll be just. If you send me to hell, I'll
get what I ought to get. I'll tell you the next thing.
He can never bow to the sovereignty of God and salvation. Look at
verse 10. David says, Lord, you create
in me. What is this? Create in me a
clean heart. Oh God, you David's not talking
about what he's doing for God. He's talking about what God's
doing for him. Salvation's not what you do for God. I believe
I'll trust Jesus. I believe I'll accept Jesus.
I believe I'll join the church. I believe I'll turn over a new
leaf. I believe I'll let God save me. Now, sure enough, is
that right? That's not the way David prayed.
He took his place at the feet of Christ. He took his place
in the dust before the throne. He took his place as a creature,
broken, unfit, and he cried, O God, what I can't do for myself,
you do for me, creating me a clean heart. O God, do for me what
I can't do for myself. Renew within me a right spirit. Pass me not, O gentle Savior.
Hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling,
don't pass me by. And then fourthly, an unsaved
religionist can never, he can never receive Christ alone. He
can never bow to Christ alone. He can never receive Christ alone
as his way, truth, and life. He's got to mix works in there
somewhere. He's got to have something to
claim. He's got to have something of which to boast. He's got to
look to either his faith or his faithfulness. He's got to either
look to his morality or his works. He's got to look to his prayers
or his devotion. He can never truthfully say,
in my hands no price I bring. He can't say it. It chokes, it
stops right here. In my hands, no price, in this
thing of justification, in this thing of righteousness, in this
thing of acceptance with God, I'm totally passive. He can never truthfully say that,
simply to the cross of Christ, I claim. I am as helpless and
as hopeless as the thief on the cross. I am as dependent, totally
dependent, upon Christ and his blood, Christ and his righteousness,
Christ and his obedience, as that thief. I have no more than
he had. The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day, and there may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away. That's the reason I have hope.
to believe that I have saving faith. Because those four things
I find in my heart, do you? I know something about my sins
and I grieve over them. I know that salvation is wholly
and completely of the Lord, totally. I justify God, if I haven't before
I do it now. I justify God in his condemnation
of every sin, mine too. And I say, Lord, if you give
me what I deserve, you'll give me condemnation. And I look totally
and completely to Jesus Christ and Christ alone. Can you say
that? It's Christ alone who is my wisdom. Without him I'm a
fool, who is my righteousness. Without him I'm a renegade, a
rebel. Who is my sanctification? Without Him I'm a filthy creature.
Who is my redemption? Without Him I have no atonement.
All right, secondly, the second thing about this thing of faith
and unbelief. In the true believer's heart,
there is never any conflict between true faith and true works. Now
turn to the book of James. I want you to look at the book
of James a minute. A man or woman without spiritual
understanding always sets up a conflict between James and
Paul. Anytime you hear religious people argue in the book of James
and the writings of Paul and setting up a conflict between
them, you know immediately that that person is a stranger to
the gospel. That sounds like it. You know,
the natural man receives it, not the things of God. They're
foolishness to him. He says, here's a contradiction,
there's a contradiction. Let me show you, for example,
in James 2.26. James 2.26. The body without
the Spirit is dead, faith without works is dead. And Paul plainly
says in Romans 3, 28, we're justified by faith without works. He plainly
says that. You say, see there, there's a
conflict. Now you hold on. All right, look at James 2, 21.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works? Paul plainly says in
Romans 4, Abraham was justified by faith without works. You know
what he said, John? Plainly says that. See there,
preacher, there's a conflict. I hope you don't say that. Look
at James 2.25, likewise Rahab the harlot was justified by works.
There it is right there, see there it is right there preacher.
What about that? Well Paul plainly says in Hebrews
3.31, Hebrews 11.31, by faith Rahab perished not, by faith. Actually, now everybody here
who has true faith got no problem here. But if there's anybody
here tonight got an artificial faith and an ignorance of the
gospel, you are in trouble right now. You don't understand. You
can't comprehend how these men, one of them says we're justified
by works, and another one plainly says, by faith without works. Actually, rather than opposing
one another, these apostles are presenting the same message,
identically the same message. Paul, if you read all of his
writings, presents the fact that faith alone saves. We're justified
by faith. He that believeth on the Son
of God hath life. That's what Paul's saying. We're
justified by faith. And James is telling us what
kind of faith. That's exactly what's going on
here. What kind of faith? Look at the key verse, James
2, 18. A man may say, Thou hast faith, I have works. Well, show
me your faith. Brethren, we're justified by
faith. Our faith is justified by works. Do you see what I'm saying here?
I'll give an example. Paul says a man is not saved
because he prays. That's what he's teaching. You're
not saved because you pray. Well, I pray three times a day.
I pray in the morning, noon, and night. A man's not saved
because he prays, but James is saying a man who doesn't pray
is not saved. A faith that doesn't pray? A
faith that doesn't seek God? James says that's not the kind
of faith that saves. That's dead faith. Paul is saying
a man is not saved because he's honest. You can be so particular,
so much particular about paying every one of your debts on time,
never owing anybody anything, being honest when somebody buys
something from you to give exactly the right measurement, that won't
save your soul. Being honest is not going to
save you, but what James is saying is this, a dishonest man is not
saved. A man who stands up and says,
I have faith, while he cheats a fellow when he sells him a
product, or cheats a man out of something he owes him, James
says, well, that's not the kind of faith that saves, that's dead
antinomianism. Paul is saying a man is not saved
because he loves. You may go out here and love
your wife or husband, children, neighbor, friends, church members,
and all that. You're not saved because you
love, you're saved because Christ died for you. You say because
his blood makes an atonement for your soul. You say because
he redeems you by his life. But James is saying a man who
hates people is not saved. He doesn't have saving faith.
He doesn't know Christ. John says the same thing. He
that loveth not knoweth not God. Is my faith saving faith? If
it is, it's a faith that produces godliness. And if it doesn't
produce devotion, meditation, prayer, honesty, love, grace,
kindness, then James is saying, you are mistaken, you've got
the wrong kind of faith. Paul opposes self-righteousness,
James opposes no righteousness. Paul opposes legalism, and James
opposes antinomianism. You see what I'm saying? Paul
tells us the fact that we're saved by believing, by trusting,
by faith. And James comes along and says,
now don't you think that every kind of faith is saving faith.
What I'm telling you, he says, folks, is this. If that faith
you claim to have in Christ does not produce godliness and righteousness,
you better find out something about real faith because you
missed it. That's what he's saying. There's
no conflict. The third thing. Look at James
1.12. Now, this is important here. True saving faith is going to
be tried. God's going to try faith. Now,
he said every son is going to be chastened. Every son, if you
be without chastisement, you're not children of God. He's going
to try every one of his children. In James 1.12, blessed, blessed,
happy is the man that endureth trial. That word temptation is
trial. For when he is tried, He shall
receive the crown of life when the Lord, which the Lord has
promised to them that love him." He's going to try your faith.
Faith in Christ must be tried. It must be tried for Christ's
sake. It must be tried for your sake.
That's what God said to Abraham after Abraham had raised the
knife to slay Isaac. He said, don't touch him. I know
now that you love me, because you have not withheld from me
your only Son. I know you love me." And God
wasn't the only one that knew it. Abraham knew it. He was tried
for God's sake. He was tried for his sake. And
we must be tried. Untried faith may prove not to
be faith at all. Now that's so. All right, how
does God try faith? Number one. Faith is going to
be tried by the Word of God. God have mercy on any preacher
that thinks he knows everything. But I'll tell you this, when
I stand up in the pulpit or in the study or in your home, I
or any of these other men who've been sent of God to preach and
teach, and I read you something from God's Word, it's no light
matter for you to say, I don't agree with that. I won't accept
that. Faith is going to be tried by
this book first. One old Puritan said this, happy is the man,
oh, happy is the man whose faith can endure the strict trial of
the Word of God. The Word of God is offensive
to the natural man. Is it to you? Ignorance, prejudice, self-righteousness,
religious tradition, these things will not welcome the naked Word
of God. The Word of God runs over religious tradition and
crushes it and grinds it to powder, and we try to grab our idols
and hold on to them. Don't destroy my idols, don't
destroy my tradition, don't destroy my religious custom, don't destroy
these things. Yeah, God's going to destroy
them. His Word will smash them. Remember how many of our Lord's
heroes were offended by his preaching? He preached the doctrine of sovereignty.
He said, all that my father giveth me will come to me, and him that
cometh out of no wise cast out. No man can come to me except
my father which sent me draw him. And they turned and walked
off. They couldn't take the word. They said, this is a hard saying.
He preached to them substitution. He preached to them depravity.
He said, you are of your father the devil. Boy, they picked up
stones to stone him. He preached vital union, eating
his flesh, drinking his blood. He preached substitution. And
they said, this is a hard saying. Who can hear it? And they walked
off. And he turned to the disciples and said, you can go, too, if
you want to. But the disciples, their faith could stand the trial
of the Word. And they said, to whom shall
we go? Are we going to believe God or ourselves? Do we want
the preacher to play our tune? Most people do. Do we want the
preacher to speak our opinions? Most people do. But the word
of God comes to us as a sweet wine, but it also comes as a
purging medicine. Happy is the man that can take
both. The word of God comes to us as an olive leaf crying peace,
but the word of God comes to us as a sharp sword and oh how
it can cut. Happy is the man that can take
both. Happy is the man who can have his thoughts and his customs
and his tradition and his ways tried by the Word of God and
just sit back and say, speak Lord, thy servant hear it. You've
destroyed me, Lord. You've taken the crown off my
head. You've smitten me. But Lord, do it some more because
I love thy Word. Yeah, faith is going to be tried
by the Word. And then faith's going to be tried by persecution.
That's what he said over in Mark 4 when that seed hit the ground
and the persecution arose. They received the word with gladness
and then persecution arose and they fell aside. They couldn't
continue. True believers are going to be
mocked. They're going to be mocked not only by atheists and skeptics
and infidels and agnostics, but they're going to be mocked by
religious people. you'll find actually if you really believe
the gospel and love the gospel and follow the gospel, some of
your strongest persecution will come from people who claim to
love the gospel. But I'm not ashamed to own my
Lord or to defend his cause, maintain the honor of his word
and the glory of his cross. And then faith is going to be
tried by the cares of this world, the cares of family. That's right. They'll be tried
by riches, prosperity. Faith will be tried by poverty.
Faith will be tried by suffering, sickness. Faith will be tried
by sorrow. Job talked about that. Faith
will be tried by years. He that endureth to the end,
the same shall be said. Christ is a son over his house,
whose house we are, if we hold fast the profession of our faith. It's not nearly so important
what you believe now as what you'll believe in twenty years,
because all the people that have run for a while and have quit
the race. But the only one who's crowned
with the wreath is the one who crosses the finish line. Faith's
going to be tried by years. It's going to be tried by disappointment. God's going to try your faith.
God's going to try your faith. And that's what he said over
there in James 1.12. Blessed is the man that can endure it.
The trial. For when he's tried and tried
and tried and tried, he'll receive the crown of life. And then faith's
going to be tried by death. Paul said, the time of my departure
is at hand. I've fought a good fight. I've
what? Kept the faith. I've kept the faith. Lord, let
me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like His. I want to die in faith. If I
don't, I didn't have saving faith. Now the last thing, I want to
point out about four mistakes about saving faith. First of all, it's a mistake
to assume that all of God's true believing children will have
strong assurance. That's a mistake. Now that's
where some preachers over the country that lean on experience
and what they call a no-soul salvation, that's where they
make a mistake. Because a man has doubts does
not mean he doesn't have Christ. Because a woman or a man is troubled
and filled with fear and doubts cries, am I the Lord's or am
I not? Do I love him or do I not? That
doesn't mean they don't have faith. I like that old song,
Lord, if indeed I am thine, if thou art my son and my song,
why do I languish in pine and why are my winters so long? Drive
these dark clouds from my sky thy soul cheering presence restore
or Lord take me to the own high where winter and clouds are no
more All of God's children don't have strong assurance It's a
mistake to assume that they will I'm not saved by my assurance.
I'm saved by Christ and Then secondly, it's a mistake to assume
that a person who has strong assurance will always have it. Now, you may not, when I just
dealt with that first point right there, you might have said, well,
boy, I know I'm saved. I know God lives in my heart.
I don't have any doubts about my relationship with Christ.
I'm saved and know it! Yeah, well, David one day said,
the Lord is my shepherd, and the next day he said, I'm cut
off. I'm cut off. One day he was saying,
the Lord is my refuge, whom shall I fear? A few days later he was
saying, Lord, how long are you going to withhold your presence
from me? Why won't you hear me? Why won't you hear me? And then it's a mistake, thirdly,
to assume that because a man has faith in Christ and loves
Christ and knows Christ, that he has all the answers. Paul
said, I count not myself to have arrived, to have apprehended.
I'm not already perfect. I know in part. Brethren, we've
got a lot to learn. Let's walk in the light God gives
us, and maybe He'll give us some more. Don't be ashamed to say,
I don't know. Don't be ashamed to, you know,
Some people think that you've got to go around and act like
you know everything, act like you've got everything, act like
there's not a doubt or a fear or a sin or a habit between you
and God. That's fool talk. We don't know everything. We're
just children, just little old bitty babies, that's all. Infants,
babes in Christ, trying to do a little growing, trying to find
something about the Redeemer. And then, fourthly, it's a mistake
to assume that all of God's people have the same as show us. I want
to read you something John Newton wrote, and I think, you know,
the Apostle Paul talked about the super-religious person, the
super-separated person, the super-pious person who kept the day and wouldn't
eat meat and all these things. He called them weak in the faith.
That's right. He says, you folks that eat meat,
he said, now you just be careful and don't offend the weak brother.
And you folks that don't observe a set day, a sabbatical obedience,
he said, now you be careful, don't offend the weak brother.
And I want you to hear what John Newton says. You hear these folks
going around saying, I'm saved to know it. Now, they just might
be one of those weak brothers. Because listen to what John Newton
said. This is good. He said there, I'm convinced
that most assurance, most strong assurance is a mixture of faith
and ignorance. That's right, he said, faith
and ignorance. When a man claims strong assurance,
It's not always because he's got strong faith, but because
he's ignorant. If we really understood, he says,
if we really understood the evil of sin, if we really understood
the deceitfulness of our own hearts, If we really could see
and understand the spiritual enemies that are out there, if
we could really see and understand the immaculate, holy presence
of God and the straightness of his law, we would tremble. We would tremble. We would tremble. You go back
through the Bible and you'll find these men who were so confident
and so cocky and so super religious, when they met the Lord, what
happened? They fell at his feet as dead men. They began to tremble. God knows our weakness, and so
he only reveals these things little by little. little by little. We couldn't even take them all
at once. He reveals them like he does
his grace, little by little. So don't despair over doubts
and fears. But don't let them be stumbling
stones. Use them as stepping stones.
Lord, I believe. Start there. Don't start with
your unbelief. Start with your belief. Lord,
I believe. But don't forget that that's there, too. Help my unbelief. Be honest with God. I think we
ought to be honest with each other, too. I think, like James
says, we ought to confess our faults one to another and pray
one for another. Quit trying to put on a religious
show. Quit trying to make people feel like they don't have what
we have. Confess your faults one to another, but by all means
be honest with God. Pray in sincerity. Don't try
to pray piously. Don't try to pray religiously.
Pray honestly. Lord, here I am. I do believe,
but God help my unbelief. Lord, you know all things. You
know I love you. You know I don't show it like
I ought to, but you know I do. Help me to love thee more. Our
Father in Heaven, thank you for your Word, presence of your Spirit. Lord, we can say, and we have
examined our hearts and we have looked into thy Word, and we
can say, Lord, I believe. But we have to take our place
with this Father with tears and say, Lord, help my unbelief.
Bless me and help me. Let that be the prayer of every
heart. Reveal Christ to me. For it's in His name we pray.
Amen.

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