The Vigor Of Our Spiritual

A Brother With Small Earnings May Ask,''should I Also Give? My Earning Are Already So Small That My Family Can Barely Make Ends Meet.'' My Reply Is, ''have You Ever Considered That The Very Reason Your Earnings Remain So Small May Be Because You Spend Everything On Yourself? If God Gave You More, You Would Only Use It To Increase Your Own Comfort Instead Of Looking To See Who Is Sick Or Who Has No Work At All That You Might Help Them.

Now What Is Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God; And Here Again, Not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Passes Through A Pipe, But Considering What We Read, Pondering It Over And Applying It To Our Hearts.

It Is A Common Temptation Of Satan To Make Us Give Up The Reading Of The Word And Prayer When Our Enjoyment Is Gone; As If It Were Of No Use To Read The Scriptures When We Do Not Enjoy Them, And As If It Were Of No Use To Pray When We Have No Spirit Of Prayer...

There Were Few People, Perhaps, More Passionately Fond Of Travelling, And Seeing Fresh Places, And New Scenes, Than Myself; But Now, Since, By The Grace Of God, I Have Seen Beauty In The Lord Jesus, I Have Lost My Taste For These Things.

Only A Life Of Prayer And Meditation Will Render A Vessel Ready For The Master's Use.