but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability.
Ability implies repeatability and accountability.
Be Dependable today!
I hope you are blessed and encouraged by this message to spend time in communication with God every day sharing with Him all that is on your heart.
In Correspondence…
A Scotch Highlander, who served in the first disastrous war with the American colonies, was brought before the commanding officer one evening charged with the capital offense of being in communication with the enemy. The charge could not well be brought forward at a more dangerous time. Only a few weeks had elapsed since Major Andre had been executed, and the indignation of the British, exasperated almost to madness by this event, had not yet cooled down. There was, however, no direct proof against the Highlander.
He had been seen in the gray of the twilight stealing out from a clump of Underwood that bordered on the forests which at that period covered the greater part of the United Colonies, and which, in the immediate neighborhood of the British, swarmed with the troops of Washington . All the rest was mere inference and conjecture. The poor man's defense was summed up in a very few words. He had stolen away from his fellows, he said, to spend an hour or two in secret prayer.
”Have you been in the habit of spending hours in secret prayer?” sternly asked the officer, himself a Scotchman.
The Highlander replied in the affirmative.
”Then,” said the officer, drawing out his watch, “never in all your life had you more need for prayer than now; kneel down, sir, and pray aloud that we may hear you.”
The Highlander, in expectation of instant death, knelt down. His prayer was that of one long acquainted with the appropriate language in which the Christian addressed his God. It breathed an imminent peril, and earnestly implored the divine interposition in the threatening danger - the help of Him who in times of extremity is strong to deliver...
”You may go, sir,” said the officer, when he concluded; “You have, I dare say, not been in correspondence with the enemy tonight.”
“His statement,” he continued, addressing himself to the officers, Is undoubtedly correct. “No one could have prayed so without a long apprenticeship; fellows who never attend drill always get ill at review.”
By Hugh Miller
The person who kneels down in prayer will be able to stand up to anything. Be encouraged to seek the Lord always and know that your time with Him in prayer will be well spent.
Reflect and Believe in God’s Promise:
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a future and a hope. Then shall you call upon me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will hear you. And you shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.” -- Jeremiah 29:11-13
Have a Blessed Day!
PRAISE GOD
BLESSED BE THE ONE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
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