A Believer
That father rested upon the Word of Jesus and His Work,
And he went down to Capernaum and found his child well;
And he praised God,
And became with his whole house a believer and disciple of Jesus.
Hay
Many use the material of the flesh;
That is, brain power, cleverness, articulation, expressiveness, resourcefulness and ability.
But all these are hay.
The flesh is earthly, not heavenly.
All which comes from the flesh with be burned up. All is natural.
God will bring into the Light the strongest, the most central and the most distinctive feature of each one’s flesh and weaken it.
Yield
If we would yield to God’s Spirit, all of our excuses would fall away and we would admit that we have sinned.
Excuse
When the pressure of work becomes the excuse for not finding time in His Presence, there is no sense of absolute dependence upon God.
There is no Full Surrender to Christ.
Greater Sin
God must reveal to us that the lack of prayer is a greater sin than we have thought.
It means we have little taste for Fellowship with God.
Our faith rests more on our own work than on the Power of God.
We are not ready to sacrifice ease for time with God.