Comfort and understanding for those seeking their faith in Christ.

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Absolute Necessity of Faith

Chapter 2 The Object of Faith

Chapter 3 The Seed of Faith

Chapter 4 The Language of Faith

Chapter 5 The Beginning of Faith

Chapter 6 The Spirit of Faith

Chapter 7 The Repentance of Faith

Chapter 8 The Humility of Faith

Chapter 9 The Finding of Faith

Chapter 10 The Simplicity of Faith

Chapter 11 The Sincerity of Faith

Chapter 12 The Penitence of Faith

Chapter 13 The Fear of Faith

Chapter 14 The Certainty of Faith

Chapter 15 The Glorifying of God by Faith

Chapter 16 The Power of Faith

Chapter 17 The Childship of Faith

Chapter 18 The Surrender of Faith

Chapter 19 The School of Faith

Chapter 20 The Word of Faith

Chapter 21 The Thanksgiving of Faith

Chapter 22 The Offense of Faith

Chapter 23 The Stability of Faith

Chapter 24 The Justification of Faith

Chapter 25 The Works of Faith

Chapter 26 The Obedience of Faith

Chapter 27 The Nutriment of Faith

Chapter 28 The Tenderness of Faith

Chapter 29 The Hand of Faith

Chapter 30 The Hindering of Faith

Chapter 31 The Gift of Faith

"Beloved friends, who are seeking the Lord, but have not yet found Him, it is for you that this little book has been written. When I recently spoke with you, in the course of my pastoral visitation, my soul was filled with deep sorrow over your condition. I still met with many who with manifest earnestness and spiritual desire were seeking salvation, some indeed for many years past, and who, notwithstanding, had not yet arrived at faith.

"This ought not to remain so. It tends to the dishonor of our Lord. True religion is thereby brought into contempt, for the world is then right in concluding: the service of Jesus gives neither joy nor salvation. On young converts your influence is by no means helpful, for your example gives them absolutely no encouragement. In this way also, the congregation suffers loss, for instead of helping as joyfully active members to build it up, you are on the contrary serving to divide its energies, and you hinder its spiritual prosperity. To your minister you are often the cause of care and anxiety; you make him dispirited with the thought that the Word of God has so little influence with you. You spend your life in sorrow and gloom, and you place your souls in peril for eternity.

"To hold out a helpful hand to this perseverance, I have written for you this little book. It is offered to you with this urgent entreaty that for a month, day by day, you specially concentrate your attention on that faith to which God calls you. It was in the midst of prayer that these words were addressed to you: do you read them also with a praying heart. May it please the Lord to deliver you soon from the chains with which you to this day are still fettered. God grant it. Amen." -Andrew Murray