How to develop unwavering faith in God: Smith Wigglesworth preaching with a Bible in hand

How to Develop Unwavering Faith in God: Powerful Lessons from Smith Wigglesworth’s Stubborn Faith

Plenty of Christians pray every day, some of them for an hour or more, and still rise from their knees expecting very little. Many trust God for bus fare and hesitate to trust Him with a prodigal child, a frightening diagnosis, or a calling that feels far too big. Others once believed boldly and have watched that boldness thin out with every unanswered prayer. All of them are asking the same thing: how to develop unwavering faith in God, the kind no mountain can outlast.

A Yorkshire plumber who could not read until his wife taught him found an answer. Smith Wigglesworth’s name became shorthand for daring faith. Held up against Scripture and told honestly, his story shows how that faith was built, and how it can be built in an ordinary believer.

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What Is Unwavering Faith in God?

Unwavering faith in God is settled confidence in God Himself and in what He has said, held steady when your eyes, your feelings, and the calendar all argue the other way. Hebrews defines faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Paul describes it in Abraham, who “staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief” (Romans 4:20).

The word the New Testament uses for wavering pictures a person split down the middle, arguing with himself. Jesus used it when He spoke of the one who “shall not doubt in his heart” (Mark 11:23), and James used it for the man who prays while doubting: “he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed… A double minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:6, 8).

Unwavering faith is the opposite of that divided heart. Other words for it are steadfast, unshakable, and settled. Hebrews 10:23 gives the reason it can stay settled: “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)”.

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Everything rests on who your faith is in. Jesus put it in four words: “Have faith in God” (Mark 11:22). Faith in your own faith, in a feeling, or in a formula can buckle under real weight, because the thing holding it up is you. Faith in God holds because God holds.

That faith begins as His gift (“by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God,” Ephesians 2:8), and it is meant to grow. Paul thanked God for believers whose “faith groweth exceedingly” (2 Thessalonians 1:3), and Hebrews calls Jesus “the author and finisher of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). Unwavering faith still feels the pull of doubt. The difference is that it refuses to let the doubt have the final word.

Who Was Smith Wigglesworth?

Smith Wigglesworth was born on 10 June 1859 in Menston, Yorkshire, England, to a poor family. As a small boy he pulled turnips in the fields and later worked long days in a woollen mill to help feed the household, and he never went to school. He came to faith as a child and passed through Methodist, Anglican, Brethren and Salvation Army circles as a young man.

He trained as a plumber. In 1882 he married Mary Jane “Polly” Featherstone, a Salvation Army preacher, and it was Polly who taught him to read. Spelling stayed a struggle for the rest of his life. Together they ran a small mission in Bradford, and in 1907 he went to the meetings at All Saints Church in Sunderland and was baptised in the Holy Spirit.

Polly died in 1913. In the decades that followed he preached across Britain and Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and Ceylon. His sermons were transcribed for Pentecostal magazines and later gathered into two books, Ever Increasing Faith (1924) and Faith That Prevails (1938). He died on 12 March 1947, aged 87.

He was candid about his own weakness. In one sermon he said of himself, “There never was a weaker man on the platform.”

What Is Documented and What Is Only Reported

A man like Wigglesworth gathers legends, so it helps to sort what is known from what is told. His birth, marriage, trade, travels, sermons and death are well documented. Most of the miracle accounts rest on his own retelling in sermons, on friends who wrote about him, and on the Pentecostal papers of his day, which few outside observers checked.

The raising of the dead shows the problem. In his own preaching he said he had seen three people come back to life, and he told of four separate occasions. Later writers pushed the number to fourteen and beyond, and the bigger numbers do not have good sources behind them. A master’s thesis on his life at the University of Birmingham traced how the stories grew in the retelling.

He also had hard edges. When praying for the sick he would sometimes slap or punch the afflicted part of the body, saying he was hitting the devil and not the person. He refused doctors and surgery for himself. 

Scripture gives the right way to learn from a man like this. Hebrews 13:7 tells believers to remember those who spoke God’s word to them, “whose faith follow.” We follow faith, and we test everything else, because Paul says, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Scripture is the judge of Wigglesworth, and of every preacher after him.

Great Faith Grows in Stages

Some young men once walked with Wigglesworth and asked him straight out how they could come to possess great faith. George Stormont, a friend who knew him for years, records his answer. It was a verse: “First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear” (Mark 4:28).

That answer takes the pressure off and puts the hope back in. A blade of wheat looks nothing like a full ear, yet it is alive, and the same life that made the blade will fill the ear. Stormont says Wigglesworth did not reach his faith “in one leap” but through years of failure and success, and that he believed God has no favourites in this.

Peter wrote his second letter “to them that have obtained like precious faith with us” (2 Peter 1:1), the same faith the apostles had. The faith that grew in a mill boy from Menston grows by the same means in anyone.

Stormont also records a line Wigglesworth repeated about how that growth happens: “Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”

Scripture agrees that faith is proved in the testing. Peter calls tried faith “much more precious than of gold that perisheth” (1 Peter 1:7), and James says “the trying of your faith worketh patience” (James 1:3), the steady endurance that keeps faith standing.

So if your faith looks like a small green blade right now, it is still faith. Start there. The fights you are in may be the very soil God is using to fill the ear.

Faith Comes by Hearing: The Man Who Read One Book

“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Wigglesworth built his life on that verse more literally than most. In one sermon he said, “I can say before God, I have never read a book but my Bible, so I know nothing about books.” His biographers add that he kept newspapers out of his home.

His hunger is the part to copy, more than his rule. Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). Wigglesworth treated Scripture as food, and a person who eats three meals of something a day starts to be built out of it.

Stormont describes where that feeding led: Wigglesworth “pressed through by faith in the Word of God to faith in the God of the Word.” Romans 4:3 makes the same distinction about Abraham: “Abraham believed God.”

He believed a Person, and so he believed what that Person said. Reading the Bible to collect facts about God can leave faith thin. Reading it to meet God, who stands behind every promise, is how faith gains weight.

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For an ordinary believer that can mean reading whole chapters instead of single verses on a phone screen, watching in the Gospels what Jesus does when people come to Him, and going back every day to the promises that speak to the mountain in front of you. God told Joshua to meditate on His law “day and night” (Joshua 1:8), and He did not mean once a week.

Faith Grows When You Act on What You Already Have

Stormont records Wigglesworth saying it plainly: “If you act with what you have, your faith will be increased. You can never increase faith but by acting.”

His own first step proves it. In his early years he used to take sick people from his Bradford mission to a healing meeting in Leeds.

One week the leaders told him they would be away and that he must lead the meeting. “I can’t!” he told them. “I have never prayed for the sick.” Nobody else came to lead it, so he did.

He told Stormont he could not remember what he preached, but that when he called for the sick, a large man on two sticks came forward first and was healed, and the faith of everyone in the room, his own included, rose. He began in trembling. He acted anyway, and that act became the ground his later faith stood on.

Another time a woman wrote him a long letter about her troubles, filled with Bible verses. He sent it back with four words written on it: “Believe your own letter.” She already had the promises. She needed to act on them.

Jesus taught the same thing. When the apostles asked Him, “Increase our faith” (Luke 17:5), He answered with a mustard seed and then with a servant who comes in from the field and does what his master tells him (Luke 17:6-10). Many read His answer as a call to use the faith they already had and get on with obedience, instead of waiting for a bigger supply.

Faith grows in the doing. James says Abraham’s “faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect” (James 2:22). God’s favour comes by grace, and acting on faith is how a believer who already has that favour grows strong in trusting Him.

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So ask yourself what you already believe God has told you to do and have not done. A phone call, an apology, a gift, a step of obedience you keep postponing: bigger faith is waiting on the other side of it.

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Why Long Prayers Can Carry Little Faith

Acts 12 tells one of the most honest stories in the Bible. Herod had killed James and locked Peter up, meaning to bring him out to the people after Easter (Acts 12:2-4), “but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him” (Acts 12:5). God answered that night. An angel led Peter out of the prison, and he walked to the house where the church was praying and knocked.

A girl named Rhoda heard his voice and ran in to tell them. Their reply was, “Thou art mad” (Acts 12:15). When she kept insisting, they said it must be his angel.

Peter kept knocking, and “when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished” (Acts 12:16). The answer to their all-night prayer stood outside the door while they argued that it could not be him.

Wigglesworth preached on this passage. “They had a zeal but seem to have been lacking in faith,” he said, and then, “Rhoda had more faith than the rest of them.”

Read also: 12 Powerful Lessons from Acts 12 Plus Summary of Acts Chapter 12: Applying the Book of Acts to Your Daily Life

Elijah on Mount Carmel shows the same truth from the other side. The prophets of Baal cried from morning until noon and on into the evening, shouting and cutting themselves, “but there was neither voice, nor any to answer” (1 Kings 18:26-29). Elijah’s prayer can be read in well under a minute, and the fire fell (1 Kings 18:36-38). Jesus warned against praying like the heathen, who “think that they shall be heard for their much speaking” (Matthew 6:7).

Long prayer is good. Jesus “continued all night in prayer to God” (Luke 6:12) and told His disciples “that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). What weakens prayer is asking without expecting anything. Jesus attached the promise to believing: “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

In later life Wigglesworth told Stormont, “I cannot pray for half an hour on end. But there is not a half hour of my waking life that I am not in prayer some time.” Earlier in his life he had prayed for long stretches, sometimes through the night. As the years went on, prayer became the air he breathed, and he expected God to act.

Before you pray tonight, try a test. If the answer knocked at your door tomorrow morning, would you be surprised? Would you call the person who brought the news mad? Decide now what you will do when God answers, and pray as someone who means to open the door.

Read also: 35 Essential Lessons from the Life of Elijah: Fire on Carmel, the Cave of Despair, and the God Who Restores

Why We Believe God for Small Things but Not Big Things

Psalm 78 records a pattern that shows up in many churches. God split the rock in the wilderness and gave Israel water in floods. Then the people said, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also?” (Psalm 78:19-20).

They had just watched Him do the impossible and still decided the next thing was too much. The psalm sums it up: they “limited the Holy One of Israel” (Psalm 78:41).

Even Jesus met that limit in His hometown. Mark says, “he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief” (Mark 6:5-6).

Wigglesworth put his finger on this in a sermon on Mark 11: “There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.”

There are human reasons we pray small. We tend to ask for what we can picture managing. A big request feels risky, because if God says no, it can hurt more and embarrass us in front of people who knew what we asked for.

Some believers have prayed big before and been disappointed, so they keep their prayers small to stay safe. Small prayers feel safe, but over time they can leave you thinking of God as small.

God speaks straight into that. “Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee” (Jeremiah 32:17). Then God Himself answers: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” (Jeremiah 32:27). Paul prays to the One “that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think” (Ephesians 3:20).

The two people Jesus praised for great faith both asked Him for big things. A Roman centurion asked for his servant to be healed and told Jesus He could stay where He was: “speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Jesus marvelled and said, “I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel” (Matthew 8:8-10).

A Canaanite mother kept asking through silence and a hard answer, and Jesus told her, “O woman, great is thy faith” (Matthew 15:28). The centurion trusted Christ’s word over distance. The mother trusted Christ’s mercy over every obstacle.

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Big faith still needs a right anchor. “For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us” (2 Corinthians 1:20). Ask big for what God has promised and for what serves His kingdom (Matthew 6:33).

Ask for the salvation of the people you love, for healing, for a way through the impossible thing in front of you, and for courage to do what He has called you to do. Ask boldly, and keep the asking tied to His word, so that prayer stays worship and never turns into a shopping list.

Zacharias and Mary: Same Angel, Two Responses

Luke 1 sets two people side by side. The angel Gabriel told the old priest Zacharias that his barren wife would bear a son. Zacharias answered, “Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years” (Luke 1:18). He asked for a way to be sure, and he was struck dumb until the promise came true “because thou believest not my words” (Luke 1:20).

Months later the same angel told a young virgin named Mary that she would bear the Son of God. She asked how it could happen (Luke 1:34), and once she heard the answer she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38). Her relative Elisabeth said of her, “blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord” (Luke 1:45).

Wigglesworth preached on this contrast. He said God wants “an Amen in our lives,” an inward yes that says, in effect, God has spoken and so it will be. Mary’s promise was even more impossible than Zacharias’s, and she met it with a plain yes. A big promise calls for that kind of faith.

Read also: 29 Proven Lessons from Luke 1: Answered Prayer, the Cost of Doubt, and the God Who Keeps His Word

Mountain-Moving Faith: What Jesus Meant in Mark 11

“Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:22-23).

Jesus spoke them the morning after He cursed a fig tree, when the disciples saw it “dried up from the roots” (Mark 11:20). Jesus was speaking of a literal mountain in front of them, and many read it as a picture of whatever stands immovably between a believer and the will of God, the thing that has not moved for years and that everyone around has accepted. Wigglesworth asked why Jesus chose a mountain at all, and answered his own question: “Because, if faith can remove a mountain, it can remove anything.”

When the disciples failed to cast a demon out of a boy, they asked Jesus why. He said, “Because of your unbelief,” and then gave the mustard seed picture: “If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20). A mustard seed is tiny, but it is alive. Real faith, even small, in a great God can do what a large amount of mere wishing never will.

Jesus places the battle in the heart: “shall not doubt in his heart.” Mountain-moving faith lives in the heart before it is ever spoken (Romans 10:10). Shouting at a problem can show faith, and it can also cover up unbelief. What matters is what your heart is settled on when the shouting stops.

Read also: 22 Life-Changing Lessons from Mark 11: Applying Mark 11 to Your Daily Life

The promise is large, and Scripture sets it inside God’s will. John writes, “if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him” (1 John 5:14-15).

Jesus promised to answer prayer in His name “that the Father may be glorified in the Son” (John 14:13), and James warns, “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts” (James 4:3). Mountain-moving faith moves the mountains that stand against God’s will, and it bows to that will gladly.

Unforgiveness Chokes Faith

The very next words Jesus spoke after the mountain promise were about forgiveness: “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses” (Mark 11:25).

Wigglesworth took that order seriously. “God can never bless us on the lines of being hardhearted, critical or unforgiving,” he preached. “This will hinder faith quicker than anything.”

He told of a man at a meeting who was seeking more of God, with his eyes red from weeping, who said he would have to leave because he had written a harsh letter to his brother-in-law. The man went home, wrote a letter asking forgiveness despite his wife calling him a fool for it, and came back. Wigglesworth said God filled him with the Spirit straight away.

John explains why: “Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him” (1 John 3:21-22). A heart full of grudges finds it hard to look God in the face with confidence. If faith keeps stalling no matter how much you pray, ask the Lord whether there is someone you are still holding.

Read also: The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant: Meaning, the Debt, and What Jesus Really Said About Forgiveness

Abraham Staggered Not: Faith That Faces the Facts

Romans 4 shows unwavering faith from the inside, step by step:

“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform” (Romans 4:18-21).

“Against hope believed in hope.” Every natural reason for hope was gone, and Abraham hoped anyway, because God had spoken.

“He considered not his own body now dead.” Abraham knew his age; Genesis 17:17 shows him counting the years. Paul says he “considered not” that body, meaning he refused to treat it as the deciding fact. Unwavering faith can look straight at the X-ray, the bank balance and the calendar, admit every fact, and still hold God’s word above them.

“He staggered not… but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.” Abraham was strong in faith and giving God glory before Isaac was born. Thanksgiving in advance can be one of the clearest signs of settled faith.

“Being fully persuaded.” Abraham’s confidence rested in what God “was able also to perform.” His certainty stood on God’s power and faithfulness, which is why it could stand at all.

There is grace in this passage too. Abraham had wavered along the way. He took Hagar to build the promise his own way (Genesis 16), and he passed Sarah off as his sister twice.

Yet Romans tells his story with the words “staggered not.” Scripture remembers Abraham by the faith God grew in him, and that is good news for anyone ashamed of their own wobbles.

Abraham waited about twenty-five years between the first promise and Isaac’s birth. Faith is tested by time as well as by size.

Read also: 21 Proven Lessons from Romans 4: Credited Righteousness, Faith That Faced the Facts, and Why God Made the Promise Certain

Unwavering Faith When the Answer Is No or Not Yet

What happens when you believe and the mountain stays? Three young men gave the best answer in the Bible to a king who threatened them with a furnace: “our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods” (Daniel 3:17-18).

They believed God could and would deliver them, and they had already decided to trust Him even if He did not, which is unwavering faith at full strength.

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Hebrews 11, the great chapter of faith, says of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob, “These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off” (Hebrews 11:13). Later in the chapter some “escaped the edge of the sword,” while others “were stoned, they were sawn asunder… were slain with the sword,” and of them all Hebrews says they “obtained a good report through faith” (Hebrews 11:34-39). The ones who were delivered and the ones who died both had faith that pleased God.

Paul asked three times for his thorn in the flesh to be removed. God answered, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Paul “left at Miletum sick” a co-worker named Trophimus (2 Timothy 4:20), and he told Timothy to take a little wine for his frequent stomach troubles (1 Timothy 5:23). Scripture never blames Paul’s thorn, Trophimus’s sickness or Timothy’s stomach on weak faith.

Wigglesworth knew this from his own life. The accounts of his life record a painful battle with kidney stones that prayer did not end. In 1913 his beloved Polly died.

Years later, with tears running down his face, he told a host in New Zealand what happened after her funeral. He went back and lay on her grave wanting to die there.

He said God told him to get up and go, and that he told God he would go and preach the gospel if God would give him “a double portion of the Spirit,” his wife’s and his own. “I am a lonely man,” he added. His grief did not end his faith. He brought the grief to God and asked for more of Him.

So hold the promise and the “but if not” together. Be slow to blame a suffering believer’s faith when God may be saying “not yet” or “my grace is sufficient.” Unwavering faith rests in God, whatever He decides about the mountain.

When Your Faith Is Wavering or Draining Away

Faith can drain out of a believer in ordinary ways. Jesus named some of them: “the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word” (Mark 4:19). Disappointment can do it. So can offence at God or at His people, or feeding the eyes on bad news and fear far more than on the Word.

Wigglesworth went through a season like that. Stormont records that his plumbing business grew so busy and profitable that his prayer life, his Bible reading and his church attendance all slipped, and his temper flared. Meanwhile Polly grew more on fire for God, which irritated him. One night when she came home late from a meeting, he told her it had to stop.

She answered, “Smith, you’re my husband, but Jesus is my Lord.” He shut her out of the house, she came in laughing through the back door, and he could not help laughing with her. Stormont says that moment began his restoration. Wigglesworth then set aside ten days to seek God, praying, weeping and soaking himself in Scripture until he was changed.

The man later known for daring faith once let it cool to almost nothing. If yours has cooled, that is a hopeful fact.

Start with honesty. A father with a tormented son said to Jesus, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9:24), and Jesus healed the boy. Honest unbelief brought to Jesus becomes the place where faith starts again.

Remember who catches you. When Peter walked on the water and then began to sink, he cried, “Lord, save me,” and “immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him” before He said, “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” (Matthew 14:30-31). Jesus rescued him first and corrected him second.

Read also: 19 Real Lessons from the Life of Peter in the Bible: Applicable Lessons for Daily Living

Remember what God has already done. When the disciples worried about bread, Jesus asked, “Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand?” (Matthew 16:9). David faced Goliath with the memory of a lion and a bear: “The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine” (1 Samuel 17:37).

Then refuse to let your feelings vote first. Wigglesworth asked, “Did you believe before you were saved? So many people would be saved, but they want to feel saved first.” Feelings tend to follow faith, and they rarely lead it.

How to Develop Unwavering Faith in God, Starting This Week

Stubborn faith is built with small, repeated acts. Here is a path you can begin today:

  1. Look at the God of the promise. Read Mark 11:22 every morning this week. Before you ask God for anything, spend time on who He is.
  2. Feed on Scripture in quantity. Set a daily amount, such as three chapters, and memorise two or three promises that speak to your mountain.
  3. Act on one thing you already believe. Make the call, give the gift, take the step of obedience you have been postponing.
  4. Pray with expectation. Settle what you will do when the answer comes before you ask.
  5. Ask God for one big thing in line with His word. Write it down with the promise you are standing on beside it.
  6. Forgive. Name before God the person you are still holding, and release them.
  7. Keep a record of God’s faithfulness. Write down answered prayers and read the list when doubt rises.
  8. Speak God’s word back to Him and to yourself. In a storm that had stripped every human hope, Paul told the sailors, “I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” (Acts 27:25). Make that your sentence too.

None of these steps is dramatic. Taken together and kept up, they are how the blade becomes the full ear.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Bible Verse Encourages Unwavering Faith?

Several KJV verses speak to it directly: Mark 11:22-24 (“Have faith in God”), Romans 4:20-21 (Abraham “staggered not”), Hebrews 10:23 (“hold fast… without wavering; for he is faithful that promised”), Hebrews 11:6, James 1:6, Matthew 17:20, Proverbs 3:5-6, and Isaiah 26:3 (“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee”).

Is It Wrong to See a Doctor if I Have Strong Faith?

No. Luke, who wrote a Gospel and Acts, is called “the beloved physician” (Colossians 4:14). Paul told Timothy to take wine for his stomach (1 Timothy 5:23), and Isaiah had a lump of figs laid on King Hezekiah’s boil (Isaiah 38:21). God can heal with medicine or without it. Wigglesworth’s refusal of doctors was his personal conviction, and Scripture does not make it the standard for believers.

Can a Christian With Weak Faith Still Please God?

Yes. “Without faith it is impossible to please him” (Hebrews 11:6), and a mustard seed of real faith counts. Jesus answered the father who cried, “help thou mine unbelief,” and Scripture says of Him, “A bruised reed shall he not break” (Matthew 12:20). Bring weak faith to Him, and He is ready to strengthen it.

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