Faith. We all have it. You, me, everyone. Actually, we live by it everyday! Do you sit in a chair when you eat your meals and trust it to ‘hold you up?’ That’s faith. Do you drive a car back and forth to work and depress the brake when it’s time to stop? And then trust it to come to a screeching halt (or a mulling grind, depending on how you drive…smile)?! That’s faith! In ways you haven’t imagined, you live by faith every moment of your life on earth! This faith that you have just enough of that God honors can see in the dark! Did you know that? It can see through densest fog, darkest clouds, and blackest nights! It sees around curves, over hills, past roadblocks to divine destinations that God has planned for you! It sees past pain, through heartache, beyond grief, yes, well into the future! It gives your heart hope that everything’s going to be okay! Eventually.

Dr. Flora reflects frequently upon a charming insight about faith shared by a child in his pastoral ministry: Faith is believing it in your heart when you cannot see it with your eyes. Then building upon Martin Luther’s inspiration about faith experienced in 1517, Flora offers theologically-sound teaching laced with witty life stories and solemn life sorrows to encourage everyone to admit and enjoy the gift of faith to whom God has given everyone a measure.

These are the author’s own words about his joy writing this book: The Bible is filled with faith. Is it possible that everything I wish to say about faith could be said here? In one book? Absolutely not! My greatest challenge writing this book was stopping! Oh, there’s so much more I wanted to say! There’s so much more that needs to be said. But maybe, that’s my next book…or series of books. John said that if all the things that Jesus did could be written down, ‘the world itself could not contain the books that should be written’ (Jn. 21:25; KJV). So also, the faith we express in Him cannot possibly be contained and explained in a single, written description of it. So, please consider this book to be a ‘smidgen’ of all the insight there is about faith. This will help you understand that the wealth of joy you will come to celebrate trusting in Jesus is far greater than a solitary book about it!

He continues, I have one goal for writing this book, and that is to help you build your faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord! It has always bothered me for anyone to say, ‘I don’t have faith!’ Or, ‘I don’t have enough faith!’ Or, ‘God doesn’t hear me - He doesn’t honor my faith!’ If you will read far enough into this book, I’m going to ‘take that away from you’ - that subtle deception your enemy, the devil, has used against you all these years to keep you from enjoying Jesus! I’m going to help you realize how special you are to Jesus Christ, how deeply loved you are by Him, and how delighted He is to honor your faith in Him! Well, actually…the Holy Spirit will do that - and I’ll just be His mouthpiece!

Dr. Robert Crick, Th.D., Foreword contributor, has this to say about Flora’s book: Wayne Flora is a master storyteller who invites the reader to mutually share in his rich reflections and discoveries emerging from the lives of all those who helped him realize God’s gift of faith. Thus, through the intersection of experience, testimony, and biblical theology, Flora finds and grows a faith which has enabled him to see…even in the dark! I would encourage those fortunate to discover this new biblically-based text on faith to look backward and discover how faith - often unrecognized and undefined - was ‘always there’ waiting to be affirmed and developed; find it in the here and now; and see ahead towards that final journey when you meet your Lord in glory ‘face to face