God Is Always Previous
It shall come to pass, that BEFORE they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. Isaiah 65:24
Addison Raws, the son of our founder, William Raws, had a sermon that he regularly preached called “God is Always Previous.” The gist if this message is that as Christians we spend so much time worrying and fretting rather than thanking God for the answers to prayer that are already on their way.
This morning I was reading Spurgeon’s Faith Checkbook and his words echoed the words of Addison Raws. Let them burn into your heart today, brothers:
The Lord hears us BEFORE we call and often answers in the same speedy manner. Forseeing our needs, and our prayers, He so arranges providence that BEFORE the need actually arises HE has supplied it, BEFORE the trail assails us HE has armed us against it. This is the promptitude of omniscience, and we have often seen it exercised. BEFORE we dreamed of the affliction which was coming, the strong consolation which was to sustain us under it had arrived. What a prayer-answering God we have!
The second clause suggests the telephone! Though God be in heaven and we upon earth, yet HE makes our word, like His own word, to travel very swiftly. WHEN WE PRAY ARIGHT WE SPEAK INTO THE EAR OF GOD. Our gracious Mediator presents our petitions at once, and the great Father hears and smiles upon them. Grand praying this!
Who would not be in much prayer when he KNOWS he has the ear of the King of kings? This day I will pray in faith, not only believing that I SHALL be heard, but that I AM heard; not only that I SHALL be answered, but that I HAVE THE ANSWER ALREADY! Holy Spirit, help me in this!
I am very thankful today that God is ALWAYS previous. What a gigantic truth for today, brothers. My prayer is this: Holy Spirit, help me in this! How about you? – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick
Compass Pointers: God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event. Matthew Henry
Anchored to the Rock: We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession. Austin Phelps
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