Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could sit still and find out what is the matter with us. I think it would do some Christians good to take an afternoon off and find out what is wrong. And I rather believe also that if we were obedient and willing to be taught, God wouldn’t be more than a thousand years in telling us something. You may not like it, but you had better take it now and be through with it than to be forever trying to make God do something which He never intends doing.

Some of you are praying a thousand miles off the track. Listen, get still before God! You have developed a terrific com­plex and the Lord would like to deliver you. Tum around and He will bring you out of this dilemma concerning faith that is wearing you out. Of course, if you per­sist in following that method, go ahead, but let me tell you it is not scriptural and not God’s pattern. He asks us to believe the thing which He is saying as it per­tains to the situation in hand, and no� to believe all the promises in the Bible just because they are true and you think one covers your trouble.

Suppose you have a medicine cabinet in which there are various medicines; gargle for your throat and tonic and pills. Every one has a medicinal value and is guaranteed to be absolutely pure. You develop some trouble with your stomach and so you take the kind of medicine which you think may do you some good. But it is the medicine which is good only for the throat, what you need to do is to use the medicine which will help your particular trouble. All that medicine may be good, but if you have distress in your stomach you surely do not want to use com salve for it. Com salve is excellent if applied to the right ailment. Just so, peo­ple get the Bible and take a promise just because it is in the Scriptures and then they apply it. Jesus knows how to prescribe and He says, “Here is the situa­tion. Take this promise.”

Paul could have hung on to that verse about Christ having been manifested to destroy the works of the devil and it would not have worked. What did Paul have to do? Fight the demon? No, he had to leave the demon alone and believe that God’s grace was sufficient for that situation and come into a place of victory.