PROMISE FOR FEBRUARY 11TH

"Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." Isaiah 65:24

HOW many prayers are not heard or are hindered because the one who asks does not first purify himself of evil in his own heart? "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts"; i.e., you ask selfishly and without regard to the will of God. But to the chastened and sanctified comes the promise--"Before they call (reading the desire of the heart even before it finds expression in words) I will answer (will begin so to shape events as to bring the answer soon or later); and while they are yet speaking I will hear." While this is in connection with a prophecy relating to the Lord's people in the Millennial Age, it never-the-less is true of all His faithful ones of this age. Praise the Lord for all His loving kindness to even the least of His lowly children! R. 1866, c.2, p.2.