信心的醫治

既然上帝的應許是聖潔、真實、公義、自由、平安的應許，並且充滿著美善，那麼，靈魂就以信心為手，把自己緊緊地依附在上帝的應許之上。如此緊密，甚至是完全沈浸在它們裡面。

〖譬如：當基督說：「願你們平安。」 信心就說：「阿們！我相信在基督裏有平安。」 這樣，信心就把這平安輸送給了靈魂。當上帝說：「你當倚靠耶和華而行善；住在地上，以祂的信實為糧。（詩篇37:3）」 信心就說：「阿們！我相信上帝是信實的！」 就把上帝的信實傳遞給了靈魂。〗

靈魂不僅分享應許的一切權能，並且被這些權能所滲透和充滿。如果說基督的觸摸具有治療效果，那麼，這種吸收上帝的話語，豈不是最溫柔的靈性上的撫慰，豈不把屬於上帝話語的一切，通通輸送給靈魂嗎？這就是為什麼單靠信心，而無需善行，使靈魂單靠上帝的話語稱義。靈魂被道聖化，成為真實、平安、自由，得到百般的福氣，真正地成為上帝的兒女。正如約翰福音1:12節所言：「凡接待他的就是信他名的人，他就賜他們權柄作上帝的兒女。」

〖對信祂的人，基督就賜下權柄。而這賜下的權柄又是由信心接納，為有信心者所佔有的！〗（摘錄於《基督徒的自由》AE 31:349，有修改）

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The Healing Is Brought to Me by Faith

Since these promises of God are holy, true, righteous, free, and peaceful words, full of goodness, the soul which clings to them with a firm faith will be so closely united with them and altogether absorbed by them that it not only will share in all their power but will be saturated and intoxicated by them. If a touch of Christ healed, how much more will this most tender spiritual touch, this absorbing of the Word, communicate to the soul all things that belong to the Word. This, then, is how through faith alone without works the soul is justified by the Word of God, sanctified, made true, peaceful, and free, filled with every blessing and truly made a child of God, as John 1[:12] says: 「But to all who … believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God.」 （AE 31:349）