I Trust In Thy Word!

Psalm 119:42  So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

Just in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak.

Faith has nothing to do with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or with outward appearances.

If we desire to couple them with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God because faith needs nothing of the kind. 

Faith rests on the naked Word of God. 

When we take Him at His Word, the heart is at peace.

God delights to exercise faith, first for blessing in our own souls, then for blessing in the Church at large, and also for those without. 

But this exercise we shrink from instead of welcoming. 

When trials come, we should say: "My Heavenly Father puts this cup of trial into my hands, that I may have something sweet afterwards."

Trials are the food of faith. 

Oh, let us leave ourselves in the hands of our Heavenly Father! 

It is the joy of His heart to do good to all His children.

But trials and difficulties are not the only means by which faith is exercised and thereby increased. 

There is the reading of the Scriptures, that we may by them acquaint ourselves with God as He has revealed Himself in His Word.

Are you able to say, from the acquaintance you have made with God, that He is a lovely Being? 

If not, let me affectionately entreat you to ask God to bring you to this, that you may admire His gentleness and kindness, that you may be able to say how good He is, and what a delight it is to the heart of God to do good to His children.

Now the nearer we come to this in our inmost souls, the more ready we are to leave ourselves in His hands, satisfied with all His dealings with us. 

And when trial comes, we shall say: "I will wait and see what good God will do to me by it, assured He will do it." 

Thus we shall bear an honorable testimony before the world, and thus we shall strengthen the hands of others.

~George Mueller

LORD Open Our Eyes That We May See!

2Ki 6:17  And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, “Lord, open our eyes that we may see”...

For the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God’s horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. 

And when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all events of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a “chariot” for our souls.

Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such...

And, on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a powerful car to crush us into misery or despair if we consider it.

It lies with each of us to choose which they shall be. 

It all depends, not upon what these events are, but upon how we take them. 

If we lie down under them, and let them roll over us and crush us, they become powerful cars...

But if we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of God. 

~Hannah Whitall Smith

The Lord cannot do much with a crushed soul, hence the adversary’s attempt to push the Lord’s people into despair and hopelessness over the condition of themselves, or of the church. 

It has often been said that a dispirited army goes forth to battle with the certainty of being beaten. 

We heard a missionary say recently that she had been invalided home purely because her spirit had fainted, with the consequence that her body sunk also. 

We need to understand more of these attacks of the enemy upon our spirits and how to resist them. 

If the enemy can dislodge us from our position, then he seeks to “wear us out” by a prolonged siege, so that at last we, out of sheer weakness, let go the cry of victory.

Dan 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.