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Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of.—EZEK. 36:37.
Ye have not, because ye ask not.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.—This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.—If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.—Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.—Men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.—Ye shall ask in my name; and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me. Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Jas. 4:2.Matt. 7:7,8. -I John 5:14,15. -Jas. 1:5. -Psa. 81:10. -Luke 18:1.Psa. 34:15,17. -John 16:26,27,24.
Spurgeon's Morning Reading
“I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.”
Ezekiel 34:26
Here is sovereign mercy—“I will give them the shower in its season.” Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will give them showers,” except God? There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them beget the rain. Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth? Who scattereth the showers upon the green herb? Do not I, the Lord? So grace is the gift of God, and is not to be created by man. It is also needed grace. What would the ground do without showers? You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing. In vain you labour, until God the plenteous shower bestows, and sends salvation down. Then, it is plenteous grace. “I will send them showers.” It does not say, “I will send them drops,” but “showers.” So it is with grace. If God gives a blessing, he usually gives it in such a measure that there is not room enough to receive it. Plenteous grace! Ah! we want plenteous grace to keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy; plenteous grace to make us zealous, to preserve us through this life, and at last to land us in heaven. We cannot do without saturating showers of grace. Again, it is seasonable grace. “I will cause the shower to come down in his season.” What is thy season this morning? Is it the season of drought? Then that is the season for showers. Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds? Then that is the season for showers. “As thy days so shall thy strength be.” And here is a varied blessing. “I will give thee showers of blessing.” The word is in the plural. All kinds of blessings God will send. All God’s blessings go together, like links in a golden chain. If he gives converting grace, he will also give comforting grace. He will send “showers of blessing.” Look up today, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.
Old Testament Chapter a Day - Genesis 20
20. Abraham and Abimelech
Abraham and Sarah at Gerar
20
From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,2Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah.3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman.”4Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent people?5Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”6Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.7Now then, return the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.”
8 So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid.9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done.”10And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?”11Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.12Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.13And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.’ ”14Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him.15Abimelech said, “My land is before you; settle where it pleases you.”16To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your exoneration before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.”17Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.18For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
New Testament in Four Years - Romans 6:11-14
6. Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.13No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Psalm a Day - Psalm 35:1-18
35. Psalm 35
Psalm 35
Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
Of David.
1
Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me!
2
Take hold of shield and buckler,
and rise up to help me!
3
Draw the spear and javelin
against my pursuers;
say to my soul,
“I am your salvation.”
4
Let them be put to shame and dishonor
who seek after my life.
Let them be turned back and confounded
who devise evil against me.
5
Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them on.
6
Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.
7
For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
8
Let ruin come on them unawares.
And let the net that they hid ensnare them;
let them fall in it—to their ruin.
9
Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord,
exulting in his deliverance.
10
All my bones shall say,
“O Lord, who is like you?
You deliver the weak
from those too strong for them,
the weak and needy from those who despoil them.”
11
Malicious witnesses rise up;
they ask me about things I do not know.
12
They repay me evil for good;
my soul is forlorn.
13
But as for me, when they were sick,
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
14
as though I grieved for a friend or a brother;
I went about as one who laments for a mother,
bowed down and in mourning.
15
But at my stumbling they gathered in glee,
they gathered together against me;
ruffians whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
16
they impiously mocked more and more,
gnashing at me with their teeth.
17
How long, O Lord, will you look on?
Rescue me from their ravages,
my life from the lions!
18
Then I will thank you in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise you.