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Increase Our Faith Elder Mike Montgomery
(continues) and Elder Mark Rowell

gives us evidence of God’s existence that nature cannot. Faith not only proves His

existence, but it compels us to believe that God is, that is, to acknowledge and accept
that He exists as the Eternal God; the creator of heaven and earth; the One, True, and
Living God; our Heavenly Father. Faith urges us to see Him as our refuge, our hope,
our consolation, and our all-in-all! Faith not only urges us to seek him, but it con-

strains us to seek him diligently! “O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee”
(Psa 63:1) How can we seek Him? By that faith which God gives us as a free gift! It
is of the weightiest matter that we faithfully seek God each and every day of our lives.
In so doing, we increase our faith.

Increasing our faith denotes an activity that requires us to be up and “about [our]
Father’s business.” (Luke 2:49) In other words, there is a work involved to increase
our faith. We cannot do this without the grace of God, and the key ingredient to

making faith operable is love. (Gal 5:6) We must approach this effort to increase our
faith in prayer, relying on Him to guide our every step. In fact, I submit to you that
there is a recurring, repeatable motion involved with increasing our faith: we pray,
apply our faith, use our faith, and thereby increase our faith, which causes us to pray,

apply our faith, use our faith, increase our faith, etc. So you see, we continually build
upon that which we have already built upon. This requires a constant activity. As the
Apostle Peter said in 2 Peter 1:5, we must give all diligence to add to our faith certain
ingredients which nourish our faith, make it stronger, increase it, and thus become of

greater service. To give “diligence to make our calling and election sure” means to
serve our Lord and His people faithfully; for in so doing we strengthen our knowl-
edge of Him and what he has done for us. (2 Peter 1:10)

Sometimes, I feel like the disciples when the Lord told them “Oh ye of little faith.” It
oftentimes seems that I lack the faith that so many others exhibit, but we must not be
discouraged! We must realize that when we rely on Him, we then see how He has
moved in our lives. To see this increases our faith!

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