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resist, and you will find that the gates of hell shall not prevail against you. If only we confess our weakness and inability, and submit ourselves and our foe to God, He will give us such power to resist that the devil will flee from us. ' Our little boy was ill and was lying in his bed very-weak. I had been away over the week-end and when I came back and leaned over his wee cot, he couldn’t say much, but he put his wee arms around my neck, as much as to say, “Could you not help me, father?” I felt as if I could give every ounce of my strength and every drop of my blood to help him. I t was his helpless weakness that touched me. It is the same with God our Saviour. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmity. When we helplessly turn to Him, all His power is exerted in our behalf. Satan is too much even for the best and strongest of us. We are no match for him. How hard it is to get us to believe tha t! The only man that ever met and mastered him was the God-man. Let us live this life of submission to God and we will not be overcome, but be overcomers. “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” How is this life of overcoming to be maintained? This is a difficulty that meets us all the time. Some may have hope that they may over
come for a time or under certain cir cumstances, but to overcome every foe always, under any circumstances, is what perplexes them. The only way such a life can be maintained is by faith and prayer. Believe that it is possible for you all the time and believe God is able, then pray con tinually, and God will keep you over coming. In Isaiah 40:29-31 we read: “He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly. fall.” That is, man at his best will fail and fall. “ B ut they that wait upon the Lord shall change their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” God has given us two wings, faith and prayer, but the sad thing is so many have allowed Satan to clip them. Instead of soar ing above their foes and failures, they are not able to rise above them and are constantly overcome by them. “Surely in vain the net is spread in the eyes of anything that hath a wing” (Prov. 1.17, marg.). Let us take God’s way and have done with our own. “So long thy power hath led me, sure it still will lead me on, O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent till the night is gone. And with the morn, those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.’’
“ ’Tis I ” "I will be with him in trouble" (Ps. 91:15).
When waves of trouble ’round me swell, My soul, be not dismayed; But hear a voice thou know’st full well— “ ’Tis I, be not afraid."” When black the threatening clouds appear And storms my path invade, That voice shall tranquilize each fear— “ ’Tis I, be not afraid.”
There is a gulf that must be crossed, Saviour! be near to aid! Whisper, when my frail bark is tossed— “ ’Tis I, be not afraid.” There is a dark and fearful vale, Death hides within its shade; Oh! say, when heart and flesh shall fail— “ ’Tis I, be not afraid,”
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