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Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook (September 30th)

Needs to Open Our Mouths

Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it — Psalm 81:10

What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as the opening of the mouth; it should be a natural, unconstrained utterance. When a man is earnest he opens his mouth wide, and our text urges us to be fervent in our supplications.

Yet it also means that we may make bold with God, and ask many and large blessings at His hands. Read the whole verse, and see the argument: "I am Jehovah, thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Because the Lord has given us so much He invites us to ask for more, yea, to expect more.

See how the little birds in their nests seem to be all mouth when the mother comes to feed them. Let it be the same with us. Let us take in grace at every door. Let us drink it in as a sponge sucks up the water in which it lies. God is ready to fill us if we are only ready to be filled. Let our needs make us open our mouths; let our faintness cause us to open our mouths and pant; yea, let our alarm make us open our mouths with a child's cry. The opened mouth shall be filled by the Lord Himself. So be it unto us, O Lord, this day. #faith #bible #christian

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Liberty Gal 2y ago

I think we frequently don't ask enough of God for 2 reasons. We don't have a high enough view of God. We don't realize how powerfully awesome He is, so we don't ask the big things because we don't have faith that he can accomplish them. We also don't trust his love and feel like we are interrupting him or causing him too much inconvenience. If we only realized how much He loves us, we would know that there is nothing He wants more than for us to ask for his help and if we only realized how powerful He is (able to speak time, space, matter, energy, and the whole universe into existence) and that He is not limited by time, then we would not doubt that he "can" or "has time to" do what we ask.

The only thing I would add is to ask for help with situations rather than ask for the solution because God's solutions are better than what we can imagine. It is also good to say and mean what Christ said right before the cross "not my will, but thine be done"