July 17, 2019

 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it (Ps. 81:10).
 
    Sometimes we see little boys or girls unwilling to open their mouths to receive needful food or medicine.  It takes a lot of urging, coaxing, or even authority to get them open.  But look at the little birds when their mother comes home with food.  All you can see is a nestful of mouths wide open.  "Open thy mouths wide," says the Lord, "and I will fill it."  This should be a great encouragement to us to pray--yes, to request great blessings of God.  Prayer should be just as natural with us as opening the mouth.  Realizing that our deserving are so small, we often ask only small things of God.  We should always be ready to ask great things and expect to receive them.
 
    Notice the argument of the verse: God has already done great things for us, therefore He is ready to do still greater things.  He invites us to ask for more--yes, to expect more.
 
    There are three things that should make us open our mouths wide for God's blessings, to request God's blessings and to receive them: our great need, our great spiritual hunger, and the fear that we shall lose the blessing of heaven.
 
    "Yes, we are praying for a revival," said a godly woman, "but we don't expect it."
 
                                Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah!
                                        Pilgrim through this barren land;
                                I am weak, but Thou are mighty;
                                        Hold me with Thy powerful hand.
                                Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
                                        Feed me till I want no more.
                                                                __William Williams
 
 
MEDITATION PRAYER:  "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart" (Jer. 15:16).