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Streams in the Desert

May 12

 

Everything is possible for him who believes. (Mark 9:23)

 

 

The “everything” mentioned here does not always come simply by asking, because God is always seeking to teach you the way of faith. Your training for a life of faith requires many areas of learning, including the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, and the courage of faith. Often you will pass through many stages before you finally realize the result of faith-namely, the victory of faith.

  Genuine mortal fiber is developed by enduring the discipline of faith. When you have made you request to God, and the answer still has not come, what are you to do? Keep on believing his word! Never be swayed from it by what you may see or feel. Then as you stand firm, your power and experience is being developed, and strengthened, and deepened. When you remain unswayed from your stance of faith, even in view of supposed contradictions to God’s Word, you grow stronger on every front.

   God will often purposely delay in giving you his answer, and in fact the delay is just as much and answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes. He worked this way in the lives of all the great Bible characters. Abraham, Moses, and Elijah where not great in the beginning but made great through the discipline of there faith. Only through that discipline were they then equipped for the work to which God has called them.

   Think, for example, of Joseph, whom the Lord was training for throne of Egypt. Psalm 105:19 (KJV) says, the word of the Lord tried him.’ It was not the prison life with it’s hard beds or poor food that “tried him” but the word of the Lord. The words God spoke into his heart in his early years, concerning his elevated place of honor above his brothers, were the words that were always before him. He remained alone in prison, in spite of his innocence, and watched others being released who where justly incarcerated. Yet he remembered God’s words even when every step of his career made fulfillment seem more and more impossible.  

   These were the times that tried his soul, but they were also the times of his spiritual growth and development. Then when word of his release from prison finally came, he was found ready and equipped for the delicate task of dealing with his wayward brothers. And he was able to do so with a love and patience only surpassed by God himself.

   No amount of persecution will try you as much as experiences like these—ones in which you are required to wait on God. Once he has spoken his promise to work, it is truly hard to wait as you see the days go by with no fulfillment. Yet it is this discipline of faith that will bring you knowledge of God that would otherwise be impossible.

                                                  Amen  

Streams in the Desert

May 13

 

We do not no what we ought to pray for. (Romans 8:26)

Often it is simply the answers to our prayers that cause many of the difficulties in the Christian life. We pray for patience and our father sends demanding people our way who test us to the limit, “because…suffering produces perseverance” (Rom. 5:3). We pray for a submissive sprit, and God sends suffering again, for we learn to be obedient in the same was Christ “learned obedience from what he suffered” (Heb. 5:8).

  We pray to be unselfish, and God gives us opportunities to sacrifice by placing other people’s needs first and by laying down our lives for other believers. We pray for strength and humility, and “a messenger of Satan” (2 Cor. 12:7) comes to torment us until we lie on the ground pleading for it to be withdrawn.

   We pray to the Lord, as his apostles did, saying, “Increase our faith!” (Luke 17:5). Then our money seems to take wings and fly away; our children become critically ill; an employee becomes careless, slow, and wasteful; or some other new trial comes upon us, requiring more faith than we have ever before experienced.

   We pray for a Christ like life that exhibits the humility of a lamb. Then we are asked to perform some lowly task, or we are unjustly accused and given no opportunity to explain, for “he was led like a lamb to slaughter, and…did not open his mouth” (Isa. 53:7). 

  We pray for gentleness and quickly face a storm of temptation to be harsh and irritable. We pray for quietness, and suddenly every nerve is stressed to its limit with tremendous tension so that we may learn that when he sends his peace, no one can disturb it.

  We pray for love for others and God sends unique suffering by sending people our way who are difficult to love and who says things that get on our nerves and tear at our heart. He does this because “love is patient, love is kind… it is not rude…it is not easily angered…it always protects, always trust, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” (1 Cor. 13:4-5, 7-8).

  Yes, we pray to be like Jesus, and God’s answer is: “I have tested you in the furnace of affliction” (Isa. 48:10): “will your courage endure or your hands being strong?’ (Eph. 2:6), “can you drink the cup?’ (Matt. 20:22).

  The way to peace and victory is to accept every circumstance and every trial as being straight from the hand of our loving Father; to live “with him in the heavenly realms” (Eph. 2:6), above the clouds, in the very presence of his throne; and to look down from Glory on our circumstances as being lovingly and divinely appointed.

 

I prayed for strength, and then I lost awhile

All since of nearness, human and divine,

The love I leaned on failed and pierced my heart,

The hands I clung to loosed themselves from mine;

But while I swayed, weak, trembling, and alone,

The everlasting arms upheld my own.

 

I prayed for light; the sun went down in clouds;

The moon was darkened by a misty doubt,

The stars of heaven were dimmed by earthly fears,

And all my little candle flames burned out;

But while I sat in shadow, wrapped in night,

The face of Christ made all the darkness bright.

 

I prayed for peace, and dreamed of restful ease,

A slumber free from pain, and hushed repose;

Above my head the skies were black with storm,

And fierce grew the onslaught of my foes;

But while the battle raged, and winds blew,

I heard his voice and perfect peace I know.

 

I thank you, Lord, you were to wise to heed

 My feeble prayers, and answer as I sought,

Since these rich gifs your bounty has bestowed

Have brought me more then all I asked or thought;

Giver of Good, so answer each request

With you own giving, better then my best.



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