“THE LIFE OF PREVAILING.”
We shall prevail
when like Jesus we can say, “Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.” When, with Him,
we come not to prayer any more than to other things, to do our own will, but
always the will of Him who has sent us forth into life, as He was Himself sent
of God. We shall prevail, because having given ourselves to Him it is the law
of His loving giving that we should give Himself to us. Freely we have received,
for freely we give.
From this point
all words of Jesus grow more and more clear. We are learning of Him Who knows
all the secrets that belong to the love that prevails. We abide where the Lord
can appear and make known to us our ground of present privilege and common
heritage in Him. We are every in covenant relations and hold nothing, not even
our own lives, dear unto ourselves.
We dwell in love,
because we dwell in god; and so we must prevail as God prevails, which is all
our heart’s desire. We do not wrestle that we may prevail, we only abide in
God, our God Who is love. We do not cry “Blot me out of Thy book,” we only keep
doing always the things that please Him, not ourselves. We do not struggle with
desire, for we walk in the jointness of one desire, one life. We have God and
have all; and God has us, whom He has so long sought. Our prevailing in prayer
is God’s prevailing with us, and His prevailing with us is our prevailing with
Him.
The Bible is full
of statements of conditions which are possibilities for all and which assume
the force of commands with those to whom they are brought by the Spirit. When
they are made personal by present showing of the Lord that they are to be received,
and may then enter as a factor into the life. Such a statement is that word of
James, “They prayer of faith shall save the sick.” It is truly according to your
faith-but the faith must rest upon the conviction that it is the Word of the
Lord spoken directly to the one needing the healing touch. After the Word is
thus spoken, faith will be required to stand on the ground given of God; for
the light that shined round about the moment of revelation may be darkened. In
these moments our trust must be not in the promise, nor in the light
surrounding the promise; but in the Lord our God, and on Him alone must the soul
be stayed.
