6有的人也许告诉你说，祷告要有信心。但是并非你要有信心就能有信心，认真说，信心乃是神在你里头发出来的一个功用。你是住在神里面，活在神里面，让神在你里面有地位的一个人，神在你里头发出一个功用来，那个才是信心。信心不是从你来的。几乎可以说，信心就是神自己。……只有充满神的人，才充满信心。所以光是劝人要有信心没有用。……你要真有信心，就需要你是一个祷告的人，活在神里面，在神里面有对付，祂的要求肯答应，祂的剥夺你肯让，祂在你里面有地位的时候，祂在你里面就是你的信心。当祂充满你的时候，你里面就充满信心。你不必用力去信，也不必勉强去信，你定规能信。因为在你里头有一位是你所祷告的神，也是充满着你来祷告的神，祂作了你的信心。请记得，到了这个时候，你就能有把握，知道你的祷告是蒙祂悦纳的，是出乎祂的，是摸着祂的，也是祂没有办法不听的，这个就是信心。信心不是你要有就能有的，乃是神在你里面充满你到一个地步，你没有办法不有的（李文集一九五九年第四册，四九、六五至六六页）。
6Some may tell you that prayer needs faith. But faith is not something you can have just because you want it. Actually, faith is a function that emanates from God within us. If you are one who abides in God, lives in Him, and allows Him to have standing in you, then God in you issues forth a function, which is faith. Faith does not come from you. We can almost say that faith is God Himself…Only a person who is filled with God is full of faith. It is useless, therefore, to merely exhort people to have faith…If you really want to have faith, you need to be a man of prayer who lives in God, is being dealt with by Him, is willing to yield to His demands, and who gives permission to His strippings. When He thus has place in you, then He is the faith in you. When He fills you with Himself, you are full of faith. You do not need to strive to believe or compel yourself to believe, but you surely can believe, for within you there is a God to whom you pray, and He is the very God who fills you and moves you to pray—He has become your faith. Please remember, at this time you know with assurance that your prayer is acceptable to Him, is of Him, and is touching Him, and therefore, He cannot help but answer your prayer. This is faith. Faith does not come according to your wish. Rather, it is God in you filling you to such an extent that you cannot help but have faith. (CWWL, 1959, vol. 4, “Lessons on Prayer,” pp. 36, 47-48)