But he prayed about
it, and the Lord gave him the patience and long-suffering of
Jesus, who bears long with the backslider who leaves Him and
joins himself with the world; and he continued to treat them with
the utmost kindness, as though they had done him no wrong. Some
people might say the man was weak, but I should say he was
unusually "strong in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ," and a
neighbour of his told me that all his neighbours believed in his
religion.
There is an overflow of _goodness_ and _generosity_. I
read the other day of a poor man who supports eight workers in
the foreign mission field. When asked how he did it, he replied
that he wore celluloid collars, did his own washing, denied
himself, and managed his affairs in order to do it.
Do you ask, "How can I get such a blessing?" You will get it by
bringing in all the tithes, by giving yourself in love and
obedience and wholehearted, joyous consecration to Jesus, as a
true bride gives herself to her husband. Do not try to bargain
with the Lord and buy it of Him, but wait on Him in never-give-in
prayer and confident expectation, and He will give it to you. And
then you must not hold it selfishly for your own gratification,
but let it overflow to the hungry, thirsty, fainting world about
you. God bless you even now, and do for you exceeding abundantly
above all you ask or think!
A comrade went from one of my meetings recently with a heart
greatly burdened for the blessing, and for two or three days and
nights did little else but read the Bible, and pray and cry to
God for a clean heart filled with the Spirit.
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