C.H. Spurgeon
Checkbook of the Bank of Faith
A daily promise from Scripture, with Spurgeon's counsel on how to receive it — endorsed by faith and presented to God in prayer.
November 23
Deuteronomy 7:22
"The Lord your God will put out those nations before you by little and little."
WE are not to expect to win victories for the Lord Jesus by a single blow. Evil principles and practices die hard. In some places it takes years of labor to drive out even one of the many vices which defile the inhabitants. We must carry on the war with all our might, even when favored with little manifest success.
Our business in this world is to conquer it for Jesus. We are not to make compromises, but to exterminate evils. We are not to seek popularity, but to wage unceasing war with iniquity. Infidelity, Popery, drink, impurity, oppression, worldliness, error—these are all to be "put out."
The Lord our God can alone accomplish this. He works by his faithful servants; and, blessed be his name, he promises that he will so work. "Jehovah your God will put out those nations before you." This he will do by degrees, that we may learn perseverance, may increase in faith, may earnestly watch, and may avoid carnal security. Let us thank God for a little success, and pray for more. Let us never sheathe the sword until the whole land is won for Jesus.
Courage, my heart! Go on little by little, for many littles will make a great whole.
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Checkbook of the Bank of Faith
C.H. Spurgeon
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