Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 3 September 2010
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Around the Year with Emmet Fox - 3 September 2010
As children of the Most High we have a divine heritage and therefore a right to expect that God will take care of us in every way. The Bible is full of promises as to what God will do for His children, but perhaps Jesus put it the most plainly when he said,
What mas is there of you, whom if his son aske bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11)
So you have a divine right to expect all these good things from God. But what does God expect of us? Well, God has the right to expect that we will put Him first in our hearts. Then God expects us to have a lively faith. Faith in itself is a reliance upon the goodness of God.
And lastly, God expects us to go to Him in prayer - as a son who knows that even before he has asked, the loving Father has answered.
What mas is there of you, whom if his son aske bread, will he give him a stone?
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:9-11)
So you have a divine right to expect all these good things from God. But what does God expect of us? Well, God has the right to expect that we will put Him first in our hearts. Then God expects us to have a lively faith. Faith in itself is a reliance upon the goodness of God.
And lastly, God expects us to go to Him in prayer - as a son who knows that even before he has asked, the loving Father has answered.
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