Checkbook of the Bank of Faith

NO promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint, but to all believers. If, my brother, you can in faith lie down upon a promise, and take your rest thereon, it is your. Where Jacob "lighted," and tarried, and rested, there he took possession. Stretching his weary length upon the ground, with the stones of that place for his pillows, he little imagined that he was thus entering into ownership of the land; and yet so it was. He saw in his dream that wondrous ladder which for all true believers unites earth and Heaven; and surely where the foot of the ladder stood he must have a right to the soil, for otherwise he could not reach the divine stairway. All the promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus; and as he is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon it in restful faith.

Come, weary one, use your Lord's words as your pillows. Lie down in peace. Dream only of Him. Jesus is your ladder of light. See the angels coming and going upon him between your soul and your God; and be sure that the promise is your own God-given portion, and that it will not be robbery for you to take it to yourself, as spoken specially to you.