TAKING GOD AT HIS WORD

These few weeks since my last post, I'm still walking by faith, not by sight.  It seems that scripture just keeps coming to my mind, my heart, and my readings.  I guess that means something for sure.

My favorite devotion book is "Streams in the Desert" by L. B. Cowman.  This devotion book was given to me a few years ago by a dear, dear friend and I have found that I never tire of it and it seems to know exactly what my heart needs on any given day.  I'm imagining that the hand that wrote those words had a direct link with the Heavenly Father.   

This past week I purchased a "sequel", "Springs in the Valley".  The interesting thing to me is that L. B. Cowman was a female.  And not only was she a female, but a female from many, many, many years ago.  She was a pioneer missionary with her husband in Japan and China from 1901-1917.   In 1960 on Easter Sunday at age 90, she came face to face with the God she had served for nearly a century.

As I've struggled the past few weeks in many areas of life, I have tried to go to the scriptures, learn new ones, and practice familiar ones.  As I have heard said, I have prayed the scriptures.  I know the Lord has maybe gotten tired of hearing this over and over from me, then I determined maybe he's not tired.  He doesn't grow weary of hearing the needs of his child.  So I keep practicing scriptures and hiding them in my heart.  

Tomorrow's devotion (yes, for some reason I read ahead) talks about a woman who prayed and prayed and prayed for her son to come to Jesus.  She would pray over her washtub as she scrubbed the clothes.  Long story and I won't give any names, but her son did come to Jesus and became very famous.  You would recognize his name if I shared.  He led many others to Jesus also through the ministry he served.  The devotion ended by saying "All this resulted because a mother took God at His Word and prayed that her son's heart might become as white as the soapsuds in the washtub".    The phrase "took God at His Word" was in italics and really hit me.  

One of the scriptures I have gone back and back again to is one of my favorites in Romans 4 and it says "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God".  I have tried so hard to be like Abraham and stagger not at the promise of God.  Shucks, there are so many promises of God, I can't keep count!

All I and others have to do is BELIEVE.   

Consider....