He must believe and stretch out the hands of faith for that which he cannot see or prove. Prayer is actually faith claiming and taking hold of its natural, immeasurable inheritance. When faith ceases to pray, it ceases to live. Prayer throws faith on God and God on the world. Faith starts prayer to work.
Faith is the foundation of Christian character and the security of the soul.
When faith breaks down, the foundations of spiritual life give way, and the entire structure of religious experience falls. Faith is the foundation on which other things are built. Christ is ready to supply exactly and fully all the demands of faith and prayer. If the order to God is clear, specific, and definite, God will fill it exactly in agreement with the terms put before Him. Faith is an operation of God, a divine illumination, a Holy energy planted by the Word of God and the Spirit in the human soul.