Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. Psalm 68:28 KJV
Today, I am live on the scene, reporting another Burning Bush sighting! (For new readers, Burning Bush Sightings are experiences when you know God is undoubtedly speaking to you. It is when He gets your attention by repeating Himself through His Word, circumstances or conversations.)
The day after my last post, PowerFULL Faith, in which I spoke about my weak faith and my struggles to believe God for great things, this was my reading from my devotional Evening By Evening by Charles Spurgeon.
It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which He has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and afflictions of spirit which arise from unbelief. It is true that Satan seeks to flood the fair garden of the heart and make it a scene of desolation, but it is also true that many Christians leave open the sluice-gates themselves, and let in the dreadful deluge through carelessness and want of prayer to their strong Helper. We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace, and we can only obtain this from God Himself. Foolish virgins we shall prove, if we do not secure the needed sustenance for our lamps. He who built the world upholds it, or it would fall in one tremendous crash; He who made us Christians must maintain us by His Spirit, or our ruin will be speedy and final. Let us, then, evening by evening, go to our Lord for the grace and strength we need. We have a strong argument to plead, for it is His own work of grace which we ask Him to strengthen–“that which Thou hast wrought for us.” Think you He will fail to protect and sustain that? Only let your faith take hold of His strength, and all the powers of darkness, led on by the master fiend of hell, cannot cast a cloud or shadow over your joy and peace. Why faint when you may be strong? Why suffer defeat when you may conquer? Oh! take your wavering faith and drooping graces to Him who can revive and replenish them, and earnestly pray, “Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.”
It never ceases to amaze me how our Lord lovingly converses with us. There is no joy like knowing He is intimately involved in the things that concern us. It is as the old hymn declares:
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
If you also struggle with your faith, I encourage you to “take your wavering faith and drooping graces to Him who can revive and replenish them, and earnestly pray, ‘Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.'” LH
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Great encouragement! When faith wavers and strength weakens, we can believe that God is stronger! I’ve been reading Ecclesiastes where at the start all seems meaningless, but the conclusion is to “Fear the God … and keep his commandments.” The fear of God shows us just how powerful and strong He is! And the encouragement from Ecclesiastes is to carry on! Thanks, Rachel Monger
– See more at http://themongers.blogspot.com/2013/11/meaningless-meaningless-mango-tree-in.html
Rachel,
We are praying great things will come out of the mango tree situation. How bright your light must be in such dark circumstances. I pray strength and blessings upon your family.