THOUGHTS ON FAITH BY GEORGE MULLER
(most is quoted; some is paraphrased in my own words)

* We need to increase in more simple confidence in God for everything which we may need under any circumstances.

* Answers to prayer may encourage us to pray in regards to:
---- conversion of friends and relatives
---- our own progress in grace and knowledge
---- the state of the saints whom we may know personally
---- the state of the Church of GOd at large
---- success of the preaching of the gospel

* All believers are called upon, in the simple confidece of faith to cast all their burdens upon Him; to trust in Him for everything, and not only to make everything a subject of prayer, but to expect answers to our petitions which we ask according to His will, and in the name of the Lord Jesus.

* By the grace of God I desire that my faith in God should extend towards EVERY thing, the smallest of my own temporal and spiritual concerns, and the smallest of the temporal and spiritual concerns of my family, towards the saints among whom I labour, the Church at large, everything that has to do with the temporal and spiritual prosperity of the Scriptural Knowledge, etc.

* Faith with every fresh trial of it, either increases by trusting God, and thus getting help, or it decreases by not trusting Him; and then there is less and less power of looking simply and directly to Him, and a habit of self-dependence is begotten or encouraged.

* Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we DO trust in one or more of these, and in that case do NOT trust in God.

* We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be ried, and, thaerefore, through the trial, be strengthened.

* The more I am in a position to be tried in faith with reference to my body, my family, my service for the Lord, my business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity of seeing God's help and deliverance; and every fresh instance, in which He helps and delivers me, will tend towards the increase of my faith.