Words To Live By

(Isaiah 65:24)
"It shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, l will hear".

TODAY'S PROMISE
Every time you call to me, I hear you.

The LORD hears us before we call and often answers us in the same speedy manner. Foreseeing our needs and our prayers, He so arranges providence that before the need actually arises He has supplied it,

before the trial assails us He has armed us against it.

This is the promptitude of omniscience, and we have often seen it exercised.

Before we dreamed of the affliction which was coming,

the strong consolation which was to sustain us under it had arrived.

What an awesome Father God we have!

The second clause suggests the telephone. Though God be in heaven and we upon earth, yet He makes our word, like His own word, to travel very swiftly.

When we pray right we speak into the ear of God.

Our gracious Mediator presents our petitions at once, and the great Father hears them and smiles upon them. Now this is some grand praying! Who would not be much in prayer when he knows that he has the ear of the King of kings?

WORDS TO LIVE BY

This day I will pray in faith,

not only believing that I shall be heard,

but that I am heard;

not only that I shall be answered,

but that I have the answer already.

Holy Spirit, help me in this!

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Life's Little Nuggets
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. -Maureen Dowd