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"With my spirit within me I will seek thee early" (Isaiah 26:9).
Let me ever seek God. And let me seek Him early. Let me not first embark in
an enterprise and then ask His blessing upon it. Let me not first make all
my arrangements and then ask Him to guide me. Let me not first take counsel
with myself and then ask Him to ratify that counsel.
This is a matter of unspeakable importance, and it is to be feared that
there are very few who seek God when they should. It is but a mockery of God
to enter a path of one's own election, and then ask His guardianship.
A man engages a woman to marry him, and then tells it to God and asks His blessing.
A man takes his departure for another city or another land, and
when his trunks are packed he looks to God for His preserving care.
Far be such a habit from the spirit that is within me. Let me seek God
early. Let me not put Him down fourth or fifth in the list of friends whose
counsel or whose aid in any concern I propose to seek, but in everything,
great and small, let me give Him the pre-eminence; let Him be all to me.
-- Walter Fred Vaughn, "This Is the Victory," originally published in the January 4, 1953, Pentecostal Evangel[/FONT]
Let me ever seek God. And let me seek Him early. Let me not first embark in
an enterprise and then ask His blessing upon it. Let me not first make all
my arrangements and then ask Him to guide me. Let me not first take counsel
with myself and then ask Him to ratify that counsel.
This is a matter of unspeakable importance, and it is to be feared that
there are very few who seek God when they should. It is but a mockery of God
to enter a path of one's own election, and then ask His guardianship.
A man engages a woman to marry him, and then tells it to God and asks His blessing.
A man takes his departure for another city or another land, and
when his trunks are packed he looks to God for His preserving care.
Far be such a habit from the spirit that is within me. Let me seek God
early. Let me not put Him down fourth or fifth in the list of friends whose
counsel or whose aid in any concern I propose to seek, but in everything,
great and small, let me give Him the pre-eminence; let Him be all to me.
-- Walter Fred Vaughn, "This Is the Victory," originally published in the January 4, 1953, Pentecostal Evangel[/FONT]
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