As A Warning To Parents, I Mention

On The Ground Of Our Own Goodness We Cannot Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered. But Jesus Is Worthy, And For His Sake We May Have Our Prayers Answered. There Is Nothing Too Choice, Too Costly, Or Too Great For God To Give Him. He Is Worthy. He Is The Spotless, Holy Child, Who Under All Circumstances Acted According To The Mind Of God. And If We Trust In Him, If We Hide In Him, If We Put Him Forward And Ourselves In The Background, Depend On Him And Plead His Name, We May Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered.

The Spirit And The Word Must Be Combined. If I Look To The Spirit Alone Without The Word, I Lay Myself Open To Great Delusions Also. If The Holy Ghost Guides Us At All, He Will Do It According To The Scriptures And Never Contrary To Them.

It Often Astonishes Me That I Did Not See The Importance Of Meditation Upon Scripture Earlier In My Christian Life. As The Outward Man Is Not Fit For Work For Any Length Of Time Unless He Eats, So It Is With The Inner Man. What Is The Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God -not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Runs Through A Pipe. No, We Must Consider What We Read, Ponder Over It, And Apply It To Our Hearts.

If We Hold Fast Our Confidence In Him, But Our Faith Is Also, By The Exercise, Strengthened: And So It Comes, That, If We Walk With God In Any Measure Of Uprightness Of Heart, The Trials Of Faith Will Be Greater And Greater.

Faith Does Not Operate In The Realm Of The Possible. There Is No Glory For God In That Which Is Humanly Possible. Faith Begins Where Man's Power Ends.