A. B. Simpson was an author, hymn writer, conference speaker, evangelist to the urban masses of New York City, and a missionary statesman. He founded The Christian and Missionary Alliance and Nyack College.
The following is from his book The Christ Life:
". . . let us learn the secret even of our faith. It is the faith of Christ, springing in our heart and trusting in our trials. So shall we also sing.
"'The life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.' Thus looking off, unto Jesus, 'The Author and Finisher of our faith,' we shall find that instead of struggling to reach the promises of God, we shall lie down upon them in blessed repose and be borne up by them with the faith which is no more our own than the promises upon which it rests.
"Each new need will find us leaning afresh on Him for the grace to trust and to overcome.
"Further, we see here the true spirit of prayer. It is the spirit of Christ in us.
"'In the midst of the church will I sing praises unto thee.' Christ still sings these praises in the trusting heart and lifts our prayers into songs of victory.
"This is the true spirit of prayer, like Paul and Silas in the prison of Philippi turning prayer into praise, night into day, the night of sorrow into the morning of joy, and when He is in us, the spirit of faith, He will also become the spirit of praise.'
". . . If Christ is carrying the other end of the yoke, we may know it is right and that we shall not sink under the load.
"Let us then rejoice that we are partakers of the sufferings of Christ that 'when His glory shall be revealed we shall be glad also with exceeding joy.'"
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