Without the Holy Ghost, my dear hearer, you must still be as blind with the light as you would have been without it. You will be as foolish after having been taught the gospel in the theory of it, as you were before you knew it.
Let the Holy Spirit, however, teach you, and you shall know all things that are necessary for this life and godliness. He who will not have mercy when it is to be had for the asking for, deserves to die without it.
While I am thinking of this word, before I plunge into its fullest meaning, I may well say, if God will give wisdom to the seeker only because he asks for it, what shall I say of the folly which will not even ask to be made wise? May God forgive you such folly for the past, and deliver you from it for the future. No man will ask wisdom till he knows that he is ignorant.
Lord, teach thou me. Asking has also in it the fact that God is believed in. We cannot ask of a person of whose existence we have any doubt, and we will not ask of a person of whose hearing us we have serious suspicions.
Who would stand in the desert of Sahara and cry aloud, where there is no living ear to hear? Now, my dear hearer, thou believest that there is a God. Ask, then! Dost thou not believe that he is here, that he will hear thy cry, that he will be pleased in answer to thy cry to give thee what thou askest for?
There is in this method of approaching God by asking, also, a clear sight that salvation is by grace. The beggar asks an alms. You are to ask as the beggar asks of you in the street, and God will give to you far more liberally than you give to the poor. You must confess that you have no merit of your own. If you will not acknowledge that, neither will God hear your prayers; but come now with the acknowledgment of ignorance, with the confession of sin, and believing that God is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and he will even now give you the wisdom which saves the soul.
Observe here, what an acknowledgement of dependence there is. The man sees that he cannot find wisdom anywhere else, but that it must come from God. He turns his eye to the only fountain, and leaves the broken cisterns. Do this, dear hearer. I feel as if the text did not want any explanation from me, but only wanted carrying out by you. Let him ask of God. I think I can hear fifty-thousand objections from different parts of the building. There are four encouragements here. In natural things, God does give to all men life, health, food, raiment.
No; it would be a greater joy to you to give than it could be to the child to accept. But it has been said, the text ought not to be understood in that broad sense. Very probably it ought not so to be. I conceive that there is implied the limitation that God giveth to all who seek. Though the limitation is not stated, yet I think it is intended, because of spiritual mercies God does not give to all men liberally.
There are some men who live and die without the liberal favours of grace, because they wantonly and wickedly refuse them; but he gives to all true seekers liberally. We may take that view of it, and we may find you hundreds of witnesses to prove the truth of it, and can find them in this very place this morning.
Here is one witness; I myself personally sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Is it not a comfort to think that hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands have gone to God, and there never has been a case in which he has refused one?
Will he begin with you? What primarily drives my work as a deep soulworker is a strong desire to help people shift out of a place of pain and suffering. But whilst I feel compassion towards those in suffering, I do not view problems as a problem. Not really. To me, blocks, setbacks, disasters, crises, bad news and unwanted situations contain massive power.
Whether you will emerge from them possessing more power or depleted and reduced, depends on the mindset you hold when confronted by it and what you do in the invisible realm. This article … Keep reading. In spiritual circles, the importance of trust has been drummed into us, as a fundamental practice to encourage ease and flow in life.
I too am an advocate of trusting in the Universal Intelligence. More recently, however, I have discovered the power of Self-Trust, which I find to be the precursor of trusting in general. Trusting yourself may be easier than you think. But first, here are some benefits of practising self-trust:. The other day, I was listening to a spiritual podcast when in the intro the host named a bunch of celebrities the guest had worked for.
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