“I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things
       which thou knowest not.” 
              — Jeremiah 33:3

There are different translations of these words. One version renders
it, “I will shew thee great and fortified things.” Another, “Great and
reserved things.” Now, there are reserved and special things in
Christian experience: all the developments of spiritual life are not
alike easy of attainment. There are the common frames and feelings of
repentance, and faith, and joy, and hope, which are enjoyed by the
entire family; but there is an upper realm of rapture, of communion,
and conscious union with Christ, which is far from being the common
dwelling-place of believers. We have not all the high privilege of
John, to lean upon Jesus’ bosom; nor of Paul, to be caught up into the
third heaven. There are heights in experimental knowledge of the things
of God which the eagle’s eye of acumen and philosophic thought hath
never seen: God alone can bear us there; but the chariot in which he
takes us up, and the fiery steeds with which that chariot is dragged,
are prevailing prayers. Prevailing prayer is victorious over the God of
mercy, “By his strength he had power with God: yea, he had power over
the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he
found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us.” Prevailing prayer
takes the Christian to Carmel, and enables him to cover heaven with
clouds of blessing, and earth with floods of mercy. Prevailing prayer
bears the Christian aloft to Pisgah, and shows him the inheritance
reserved; it elevates us to Tabor and transfigures us, till in the
likeness of his Lord, as he is, so are we also in this world. If you
would reach to something higher than ordinary grovelling experience,
look to the Rock that is higher than you, and gaze with the eye of
faith through the window of importunate prayer. When you open the
window on your side, it will not be bolted on the other.

On this day...

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• Jonathan Edwards - Theologian - 2009
• The Joy in Maturing - 2009
• Truth in this small world - 2009
• Revelation 4:4 - 2008
• THE WATERS OF SATISFACTION SCATTERED - 2008
• John 7:37 - 2008