March 19th Morning

0:00You are listening to Morning and Evening, a daily devotional work by Reverend Charles Spurgeon. This reading is brought to you by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College, where you can pursue a gospel-centered degree both on campus or online. Learn more at mbts.edu-apply Good morning. Today is March the 19th. Strong in faith. Romans 4 verse 20 Christian, take good care of thy faith. For recollect faith is the only way whereby our can stop tain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but

1:03faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne, except it be the earnest prayer of the man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. Let that angel be withdrawn, we can neither send a prayer nor receive the answers. Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth and heaven, on which God's messages of love fly so fast. That before we call, he answers. And while we are yet speaking, he hears us. But if that telegraphic wire faith be snapped, how can we receive the promise? Am I in trouble? I can obtain help for trouble by faith. Am I beaten about by the enemy? My soul on her dear refuge leans by faith. But take faith away, in vain I call to God.

2:03There is no road betwixt my soul and heaven. In the deepest winter time, faith is a road on which the horses of prayer may travel. A, and all the better for the biting frost. But blockade the road, and how can we communicate with a great king? Faith links me with divinity. Faith clothed me with the power of God. Faith engages on my side, the omnipotence of Jehovah. Faith ensures every attribute of God in my defence. It helps me to defy the hosts of hell. It makes me march triumphant over the necks of my enemies. But without faith how can I receive anything of the Lord? Let not him that wavereth, who is like a wave of the sea, expect that he will receive anything of God. Oh, then Christian, watch well thy faith, for with it thou canst win all things, however

3:05poor thou art, but without it thou canst obtain nothing. If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit today.