Greetings sis Reis et al;
Amen to mr Hawker's comments. Who among the saints of GOD has not
felt himself faint and famished, yet unable to abandon the quest to seek
and find the LORD. Is this not what the LORD had reference to when HE
said, /"And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." (Mat
11:12/) And does not Peter illustrate it when HE was asked by the LORD
if he would also depart as many of the spurious disciples already
had,/"Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the
living God." (John 6:68-69/) And it is typified in the words of Job,
"/Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him." (Job 13:15/)
Blessings, mike
On 3/4/2021 5:13 PM, Soraya Reis wrote:
*"Faint, yet pursuing." Judges 8:4*
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*Surely what is said here concerning the little army of Gideon, suits my case exactly. I know that in Jesus the victory is certain; but I know also, that I shall have battlings all the way. From the moment that the Lord called me out of darkness into his marvellous light, my whole life hath been but a state of warfare; and! feel what Paul felt, and groan as he groaned, under a body of sin and death; "as sorrowful, yet rejoicing; as dying, but behold I live; as chastened, and not killed." Truly I am faint, under the many heavy assaults I have sustained; and yet, through grace, pursuing as if I had met with no difficulty. *
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*Yes, blessed Jesus; I know that there can be no truce in this war; and looking unto thee, I pray to be found faithful unto death, that no man may take my crown. But, dearest Lord! thou seest my day of small things; thou beholdest how faint I am. Thou seest also, how the enemy assaults me! and-how the world and the flesh combat against me. While without are rightings, within will be fears. *
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*Yet, dearest, blessed Lord, "in the Lord I have strength;" and how sweet is the thought, that though I have nothing, though I am nothing, yet thou hast said, "in me is thy help." Thou hast said, "the righteous shall hold on his way; and he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger." The worm Jacob thou hast promised shall thresh the mountains. Write these blessed things, my soul, upon the living tablets of thine heart, or rather beg of God the Holy Ghost, the remembrancer of thy Jesus, to stamp them there for thee. "He giveth power to the faint; and to them which have no might, he increaseth strength. *
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*Even the youths shall faint and be weary; and the young men shall utterly fail. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings, as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." *
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*Robert Hawker (1753-1827) *
