11/23 Tuesday truth

[Faith] must be fed continually upon the Word of God and upon our acting on that Word.

Simply reading the Word, meditating on the Word, will not build faith. It will build a capacity for faith, but faith is only built when that Word becomes a part of our daily use, our daily conduct -- a part of our daily speech.

As faith grows, Satan's dominion over us wanes. Circumstances are less formidable. Fear is destroyed. As your faith grows, you begin to possess your rights in Christ. . . .

You begin to enjoy what you formerly "mentally assented" to.

You have said, "Yes, by His stripes I am healed, but I am sick." You have agreed with the Word, but you have not acted upon it . . . you have merely assented to it. Now you have reached the place where you no longer hope for it, but you look up and say, "Father, I thank Thee that I am what you say I am."

What you have mentally assented to, you now possess.

Believing is possessing. What you assented to for years, you now enjoy. Faith grows in the atmosphere of confession of the Word.

-- E.W. Kenyon