It is sometimes difficult to realiz e that the promises of God are to be taken at their face value. Too often they are regarded as a part of the general spiritual instruc tion of the Word, but not to be appropriated for our own need.

We fail to r ealize because we do not appr opriate!

No matter what may be our requirements—guidance, spiritual refreshing, physical or temporal needs—God has given us some specific word on which to base our faith.

Then, since the promises are definite, should not our prayers be definite? Prayerfully search the Word to find the promise that will fit the case. Prove Him! Back of the word of the Lord is the person and character of God Himself: God, who cannot lie.

God honors the person who trusts Him implicitly .

It is not our worth, but Christ’ s, which has secured for us immediate access to the Throne, “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken” (2 Corinthians 1:20).

With such a basis and assurance, why hesitate to claim the things the Lord has pr ovided? Can you not trust the One who made the promise?

Whatever desire the Father permits to live in the heart of one of His saints, He will grant the fulfillment ther eof. S. C HADWICK

Prove the immutable pr omises of God!