Category: Devotion of the Day

WE KNOW NOT…BUT THE SPIRIT

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.
Romans 8:26

“I can’t think or pray or feel as I ought. What shall I do?” You never will be able to do or be perfectly as you wish you might while you are in the flesh. You are a child of Adam, and the best falls far short. How often have we resolved, yielded, committed, dedicated ourselves, and then felt how poorly we had done it! No one ever prayed a prayer or preached a sermon that completely satisfied him. We are not to look in that direction for satisfaction.

Paul says in Romans 8 that we do not even know what to pray for as we ought, let alone how to pray, but the Spirit makes up our lack. God knows the intent of the heart, however poorly the lips express it.

If you can’t pray like you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean. And you have good help – the Advocate who is God’s Son and the Paraclete who is God’s spirit. They will take your feeblest prayer and make it perfect.

SHOUTING AT JERICHO

Shout: for the Lord hath given you the city.
Joshua 6:16

The people shouted before the walls fell. Anybody can shout after they fall. Faith anticipates victory and celebrates in advance.

“What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” (Mk. 11:24). “Believe that ye receive them” – the walls are as good as down already when God says so. Faith takes His word for the deed and shouts now.

“The Lord hath given you the city.” He has given us all things freely with the gift of His Son. We already have it in Christ, though we may not actually have possessed our possessions. Faith is the land deed for our inheritance with God’s signature.

Jericho may loom big and ominous, but if, like Joshua, you have had a meeting with the Captain of the Lord’s host, fear not. “Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.” Anticipate victory and shout in advance!