...Lord, increase our faith.This reflects the proper attitude about faith. It admits the source of our faith is from God. It also admits that one already has some faith. We all have some faith or we wouldn't be able to get up in the morning.
In the quest for obtaining an increase in faith, we must recognize the talents and abilities given to us. We must try to realize that those are gifts, and that those gifts can be increased as we strive to obey His voice. The only real gift that we to give is our will. The more submissive to His will we become, the more faith and grace are allotted to us. Submission is a very difficult task! - not for the faint of heart.
The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. The many other things we “give,” brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!
-- Neal A. Maxwell
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