The following is from Arthur T. Pierson's excellent book Shall We Continue in Sin:
"To consider no human impossibilities when God promises; not to stagger in unbelief before the seemingly impassable barriers to blessing, but to be strong in faith, fully persuaded of God's ability and to judge Him faithful, and account Him able even to give back alive what is dead--this is what is meant by Reckoning upon God.
"We are told in Rom. 4:17 that God calleth those things which be not as though they were. This is exactly what faith does in reckoning God faithful. His word has gone forth as to a yet unaccomplished fact; He gives a promise which seems and is, humanly speaking, impossible of fulfilment.
"Faith, instead of looking at the difficulties, looks at the Promiser; instead of staggering in weakness before the apparent impossibility, the absolute hopelessness of the case, is strong in confidence, giving glory to God in advance of receiving the promise, and, against hope, believes in hope."
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