'Call to me and I will answer you and
tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' Jeremiah 33:3
As you
pray for God’s great mercies to be granted, take with you these thoughts:
(1) The
infinite willingness of God to bless. His very nature is a pledge of it. He
delights in mercy. He waits to be gracious. His promises and the experience of
His saints assure us of it.
(2) Why
then is the blessing delayed? In creating man with a free will and making him a
partner in the rule of the earth, God limited Himself. He made Himself
dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of
what God could do in blessing.
(3) Think
of how God is hindered and disappointed when His children seldom pray. The weak
church, the lack of the power of the Holy Spirit, is all because of the lack of
prayer. How different would be the state of the church and of the world if
God’s people were to unceasingly call on Him!
(4) Yet
God has blessed—just up to the measure of the faith and the zeal of His people.
If He has thus blessed our weak prayers, what will He do if we yield ourselves
wholly to a life of intercession?
(5) This
is a call to repentance and confession! Our lack of consecration has held back
God’s blessing from the world. He was ready to save, but we were not willing
for the sacrifice of a wholehearted devotion to Christ and His service.
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