Morning, March 18
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I love the LORD because he hears my voice
        and my prayer for mercy.
Because he bends down to listen,
        I will pray as long as I have breath!
Insight
God is so responsive that you can always reach him. He bends down and listens to your voice. This writer's love for the Lord had grown because he had experienced answers to his prayers.
Challenge
If you are discouraged, remember that God is near, listening carefully to every prayer and answering each prayer in order to give you his best.
Galatians 3:26  Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

The fatherhood of God is common to all his children. Ah! Little-faith, you have often said, "Oh that I had the courage of Great-heart, that I could wield his sword and be as valiant as he! But, alas, I stumble at every straw, and a shadow makes me afraid." List thee, Little-faith. Great-heart is God's child, and you are God's child too; and Great-heart is not one whit more God's child than you are. Peter and Paul, the highly-favored apostles, were of the family of the Most High; and so are you also; the weak Christian is as much a child of God as the strong one.

"This cov'nant stands secure,

Though earth's old pillars bow;

The strong, the feeble, and the weak,

Are one in Jesus now."

All the names are in the same family register. One may have more grace than another, but God our heavenly Father has the same tender heart towards all. One may do more mighty works, and may bring more glory to his Father, but he whose name is the least in the kingdom of heaven is as much the child of God as he who stands among the King's mighty men. Let this cheer and comfort us, when we draw near to God and say, "Our Father."

Yet, while we are comforted by knowing this, let us not rest contented with weak faith, but ask, like the Apostles, to have it increased. However feeble our faith may be, if it be real faith in Christ, we shall reach heaven at last, but we shall not honor our Master much on our pilgrimage, neither shall we abound in joy and peace. If then you would live to Christ's glory, and be happy in his service, seek to be filled with the spirit of adoption more and more completely, till perfect love shall cast out fear.


Isaiah 38:14  "Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; O Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.

Psalm 6:2-4  Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am pining away; Heal me, O LORD, for my bones are dismayed. • And my soul is greatly dismayed; But You, O LORD-- how long? • Return, O LORD, rescue my soul; Save me because of Your lovingkindness.

Psalm 55:4-6  My heart is in anguish within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me. • Fear and trembling come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me. • I said, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

Hebrews 10:36  For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Acts 1:10,11  And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. • They also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven."

Philippians 3:20  For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Titus 2:13  looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus,

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