Hebrews 11:6 ‘But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.’
DAILY READING; Mark 4:1-20; 2 Samuel 9-10; Daniel 5
Dr. Harry Ironside has been called “America’s most popular expositor and the archbishop of fundamentalism. He stands out as one of the greatest Christian leaders of the 19th century..
Yet, interestingly, he was someone who was not supposed to have survived at birth. On October 14, 1876, when Harry Ironside was born, the attending physician pronounced him dead and laid him aside to attend to his mother. But 40 minutes later a startled nurse detected signs of pulse in the dead baby and plunged him into a hot bath, from which he emerged alive and healthy.
His father died when he was only a toddler and his family suffered great poverty, yet this poor boy from the backside of a desert, was raised to prominence through abiding faith in God.
At 14 years old Harry accepted Christ as his Saviour, and after he finished with grammar school, hiis only desire was to tell others of Christ.
For a while he worked with the Salvation Army, testifying and singing in their meetings and became known as “The Boy Preacher of Los Angeles.”
At 22 years old, Harry Ironside stepped out by faith into fulltime ministry, and began preaching wherever he had opportunity—on street corners, in missions, in the desert towns.
Supported by no organization, he learned of absolute dependence upon God for every need. One night, he had no single money left on him, but he prayed and told God he needed 40 cents for food the next day. Then, he went out to preach on a street corner. After his message two men followed him and spoke to him. As they left they shook hands with him. In his palm when he opened it were three dimes and two nickels!
A life of prayers and diligent study of God’s Word, eventually made him to become one of the most capable and prominent preachers and spiritual giant of his generation. He was pastor of Chicago’s famous moody memorial church and was a prolific writer, whose books positively affected many lives for Christ.
A life of prayer will always turn things around.
2 Chronicles 16:9 says that God’s eyes are searching to and fro over the earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those that trust in Him.
When our hope is in God, despite the disadvantages of life, He will give us a divine turnaround.
It can be tempting to fret and worry over our future, especially when there seems to be no human helper, but when we diligently seek God, He will become our Helper, our Source and Sustainer.
God is the One that gives meaning to our lives. In Genesis 1, in the beginning Life had no meaning, everything was void, dark and in confusion, but as soon as God stepped in, Heaven and earth began, everything was formed. Our lives can never remain void, when God steps into our affairs.
God is the Hope of the hopeless, and He wants us to depend on Him at every crossroad in life. It can be easy to make projections based on our own strength or human connections.. But while the arm of flesh will often fail,
God’s faithfulness never fails.
Certainly, with God on our side, we will never be stranded or suffer stagnation in life.
Having come to the end of our days of fasting and praying today, we have to trust that we have indeed engaged God’s divine help in our affairs.
Because He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him, surely it is our season of open rewards. Therefore, let us keep praising God for what He is set to do.
Our season of fasting and prayer will surely culminate in our rise to new levels in destiny and opening of a new chapter in our lives. Certainly, God will take us from the back to the front, from pain to power and from obscurity to prominence. Surely, He will take us from sorrow to joy, from sickness to health and from weakness to a life of faith, peace and joy.,
PRAYER: Lord, Please help me to know that You are always there to deliver me, no matter what I may face in life. Thank You for always answering when I call and causing me to triumph always in all situations in Jesus Name. ….
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God’s word is God’s ‘prescription’ for every area of your life, let God’s word fix that situation in your life. WORDBITE 222.
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