WAITING ON GOD

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is to be that of waiting for His counsel as the only guide of our thoughts and actions. In our church worship, in our prayermeetings, in our conventions, in all our gatherings as managers, or directors, or committees, or helpers in any part of the work for God, our first object ought ever to be to ascertain the mind of God. God always works according to the counsel of His will; the more that counsel of His will is sought and found and honored, the more surely and mightily will God do His work for us and through us. The great danger in all such assemblies is that in our consciousness of having our Bible, and our past experience of God’ s leading, and our sound creed, and our honest wish to do God’s will, we trust in these, and do not realize that with every step we need and may have a heavenly guidance. There may be elements of God’s will, application of God’s word, experience of the close presence and leading of God, manifestations of the power of His Spirit, of which we know nothing as yet. God may be willing, nay, God is willing to open up these to the souls who are intently set upon allowing Him to have his way entirely, and who are willing in patience to wait for His making it known. When we come together praising God for all He has done and taught and given, we may at the same time be limiting Him by not expecting greater things. It was when God had given the water out of the rock that they did not trust Him for bread. It was when God had given Jericho into his hands that Joshua thought the victory over Ai was sure, and waited not for counsel from God. And so, while we think that we know and trust the power of God for what we may expect, we may be hindering Him by not giving time, and not definitely cultivating the habit of waiting for His counsel. Page 50 of 101
A minister has no more solemn duty than teaching people to wait upon God. Why was it that in the house of Cornelius, when "Peter spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell upon all that heard him"? They had said, "We are here before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God." We may come together to give and to listen to the most earnest exposition of God’s truth with little spiritual profit if there be not the waiting for God’s counsel. And so in all our gatherings we need to believe in the Holy Spirit as the Guide and Teacher of God’s saints when they wait to be led by Him into the things which God hath prepared, and which the heart cannot conceive. More stillness of soul to realize God’s presence; more consciousness of ignorance of what God’s great plans may be; more faith in the certainty that God has greater things to show us; that He Himself will be revealed in new glory: these must be the marks of the assemblies of God’s saints if they would avoid the reproach, "They waited not for His counsel." "My soul, wait thou only upon God!" Jeremiah 7:24 But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Proverbs 19:21 Many plans are in a man's heart, But the counsel of the LORD will stand. Page 51 of 101
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Page 3 and 4: WAITING on GOD! DAILY MESSAGE FOR A
Page 5 and 6: And He will work for thee. Stand st
Page 7 and 8: CONTENTS Dedication……………
Page 9 and 10: PREFACE PREVIOUS to my leaving for
Page 11 and 12: Day 1. THE GOD OF OUR SALVATION Psa
Page 13 and 14: "Truly my soul waiteth upon God; fr
Page 15 and 16: us meditate and be still, until we
Page 17 and 18: If we are in this little book at al
Page 19 and 20: If an army has been sent out to mar
Page 21 and 22: Day 5. FOR INSTRUCTION Ps. 25:4-5 S
Page 23 and 24: and faith of God as the one only so
Page 25 and 26: wait on Him. Let this page take the
Page 27 and 28: must be, "Let integrity and upright
Page 29 and 30: Day 8. STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE "
Page 31 and 32: and then, after that, what He will
Page 33 and 34: A text in Proverbs (3:5) may help t
Page 35 and 36: Day 10. WAITING ON GOD: IN HUMBLE F
Page 37 and 38: situation, whether in the temporal
Page 39 and 40: All the exercises of the spiritual
Page 41 and 42: ut in His ways. And that there, by
Page 43 and 44: good thing. Believe that in you, an
Page 45 and 46: say, God’s heart knows and waits
Page 47 and 48: Such patience is needed for the tru
Page 49: Day 15. WAITING ON GOD: FOR HIS COU
Page 53 and 54: But can we indeed enjoy it all the
Page 55 and 56: waits on the light of the Lord, mor
Page 57 and 58: appealing to the one only Deliverer
Page 59 and 60: Are there not in the church of Chri
Page 61 and 62: Day 19. AS A GOD OF JUDGMENT Isaiah
Page 63 and 64: coming on our very friends, that we
Page 65 and 66: The other answer points to what has
Page 67 and 68: Yes, "they shall mount up with wing
Page 69 and 70: waiting must and can be the very br
Page 71 and 72: heart "the light of the knowledge o
Page 73 and 74: The need of God's people, and the c
Page 75 and 76: fully know the goodness of God, giv
Page 77 and 78: Day 25. QUIETLY Lamentations 3:26 I
Page 79 and 80: "It is good that a man should . . .
Page 81 and 82: cease. We must see how entirely it
Page 83 and 84: sin, but alive unto God through Jes
Page 85 and 86: Day 28. FOR THE COMING OF HIS SON 1
Page 87 and 88: I am very afraid that this is somet
Page 89 and 90: to further fulfill His promise and
Page 91 and 92: With this faith, let a hush and a h
Page 93 and 94: darkness, is unconscious advance, b
Page 95 and 96: Day 31. ONLY Psalm 62:5-6. My soul,
Page 97 and 98: "My soul, wait thou only upon God."
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