Remember what God has done for you and then say, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever" (Heb 13:8) When you are praying, if you cannot see that He is comfortable towards you today, recall that He was yesterday.
If there is no present manifestations of divine favor, remember the past. He has been gracious. Can you tell how gracious? He has abounded towards you in lovingkindness, tenderness, a faithfulness. He has never been a wilderness or a land of drought to you.
Well then, if in six troubles He has delivered you, will you not trust Him for seven? (Job 5:19). If you get to sixty troubles, will you not trust Him for sixty-one?
We say that we ought always to trust someone until they deceive us. We reckon someone honest until we find otherwise. Let it be so with God. Since we have found Him good, faithful, true, kind and tender, let us not think badly of Him now that we have come into difficult straits. Come to Him and say, "Are You our God? Did You not bring us 'up out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay'(Ps 40:2)? Surely, then, You will not leave us now."
The wonders God can do! He loves us to state our difficulty, that when He gets us out we will well remember the condition we were in.
After pleading the promise and confessing our condition, we may say, "Lord, if help does come, it must come from You. It cannot come from anywhere else, so we look to You. We believe help will come. Though we do not know how it will come, we are looking to You. Though we do not know when, we are looking to You. Though we do not know what You would have us to do, we still are looking to You. Our eyes may be full of years, but they are on You."
-Spurgeon (
Beside Still Waters)
