<TITLE>07. Par 24-28</TITLE>L-24 How she'd bite her lips until they would bleed. She'd go out in the kitchen, and raise up her hands, and say, "Oh, Jehovah, I am a widow who believes in You. And You took the little boy's father, Your servant, up into heaven to be with You. And if You don't help me, it won't be long till we'll be visiting him. Nevertheless, whatever You do, I love You just the same, and I trust You."
It seems strange when a person has done all that they can do, that they have fulfilled every request that God has asked them to do, and still He is silent. When you have done all that God has requested you to do, and still He's silent, just be sure that you know God. And remember, faith is silently waiting. He's only testing your faith to see what you'll do. God does that.

L-25 It was the Hebrew children that believed God and stood out for God; and they were sure that they were right with God. And He let them walk right into the fiery furnace before He ever moved, but stayed, wait silently, assured that everything's all right.

L-26 When you've done all that you can do, when you come through the prayer line and been prayed for, your heart doesn't condemn you, and you're living right with God, just hold onto it; God has to answer. He's testing you. If you turn loose the next morning, say, "Well, I'm no better; I guess there's nothing to it," then you didn't have faith to begin with. If you've got real faith, you'll hold till the last breath's gone from your body. You're certain that God is God. "For he that cometh to God, must believe that He is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him."
He, Job... When Job was accused of being a secret sinner, when his flesh was rottening from his body, and his children had been killed, and his... He was poverty stricken; he still knew that he was right before God, and he held on. God was testing him. When even his wife come out, and he was setting on the back yard on the ash heap scraping his sores with a boil--the boils with a piece of crock or something, and his wife, the only one of his family left, said, "Job, why don't you curse God and die. You look so miserable."
He said, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. The Lord gave, and the Lord taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord."

L-27 God was testing him. He knowed he'd offered the burnt offering. He'd come by the way of the blood. He knowed that God was God. He knowed that God answered prayer. And God was testing him. But He brought him out victorious, because he was certain of God.
If you're certain of God, you can take His Word for anything He says. If you're not certain that He is God, and this is the Bible, then you'd better be careful of what you're doing. But if you're certain, meet His requirements, then faith takes its solemn rest. Faith cannot be based upon the shifting sands of man's theology. But faith takes its solemn stand upon the eternal everlasting rock of God's eternal faith. There it rests, unmovable. It knows that God is, and a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him.

L-28 Oh, it was horrible to watch her child dying. All night she'd prayed, but she'd waited. Then I see her take a little nap, wake up, and she looks at his little thin body. He's dozed off to sleep. She seen the great ditches in his face from hunger. And she could hardly stagger around. Just about a bucket of water left, one handful of meal, and a spoonful of oil stood between her and death.
Isn't it strange how God lets His children get right down to that last moment? Oh, sometimes He permits that to see your reactions. The Bible said, "If we cannot stand the chastisement of God, then we are illegitimate and not the children of God." We're borned of the Spirit of God. Our faith in God holds on His Word, sets to His Word, and there it holds.


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