September 9 | Morning

0:007 September 9th, morning. I will answer you and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known. Jeremiah chapter 33 verse 3. There are different translations of these words. One version renders it, I will show you great and fortified things, another great and reserved things. Now, there are reserved and special things in Christian experience. Every development in the spiritual life does not take place in the same way or in the same time frame. There are the common benefits and feelings of repentance and faith and joy and hope, which are enjoyed by the entire family. There is an upper realm of delight, communion and conscious union with Christ, which is

1:01far from being the routine enjoyment of believers. We do not all have the high privilege of John to lean upon Jesus' bosom nor of Paul to be caught up into the third heaven. There are heights in experimental, experiential knowledge of the things of God that the eagles eye has never seen and the philosophers' mind has never grasped. God alone can take us there. But the chariots in which he transports us and the horses with which that chariot is pulled are prevailing prayers. Prevailing prayer is victorious with the God of mercy. In his manhood he strove with God, he strove with the angel and prevailed, he wept and sought his favour. He met God at Bethel and there God spoke with us. Prevailing prayer takes the Christian to the mountain and enables him to cover heaven with clouds of blessing and earth with floods of mercy.

2:04Prevailing prayer lifts the Christian and shows him his inheritance and transfigures him into the likeness of his Lord. If you would reach to something higher than ordinary grovelling experience, look to the rock that is higher than you and gaze with the eye of faith through the window of consistent prayer. When you open the window on your side, it will not be bolted on the other.