JC Ryle in Faith in Christ on how to have more faith:
Reader, would you have more faith? Then seek to become more acquainted with Jesus Christ. Study your blessed Savior more and more, and strive to know more of the length and breadth and height of His love. Study Him in all His offices, as the Priest, the Physician, the Redeemer, the Advocate, the Friend, the Teacher, the Shepherd of His believing people.
Study Him as one who not only died for you—but is also living for you at the right hand of God; as one who not only shed His blood for you—but daily intercedes for you at the right hand of God; as one who is soon coming again for you, and will stand once more on this earth.
The miner who is fully persuaded that the rope which draws him up from the pit will not break, is drawn up without anxiety and alarm. The believer who is thoroughly acquainted with the fullness of Jesus Christ, is the believer who travels from grace to glory with the greatest comfort and peace.
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Great advice! Now how do you do that in a practical way?
Read, study, and meditate on Scripture. Pray. Sing praises. Be still. Serve. Be obedient. ...
I know people who do those things yet if you ask them if they really know the person of Jesus, they have to admit they don't. At least not in the way some people talk about knowing Him.
In fact, you sometimes get people who claim that they did all those things and "thought" they knew Jesus, but it was not until they had an "encounter" with His Person that they felt like they really knew Him.
And the weird thing about that is that these people who had an "encounter" DO seem to really know Him in a way that is different from some other people, even those people who are very sincere and work hard at their knowing Christ.
I used to brush off that phenomenon, but I can't anymore. There really seems to be a difference.
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