Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children… A friend in London, who speaks now with a voice as clear as a bell, and preaches a full salvation, spoke to me in great trouble some years after his conversion. "You know I am such a fool; I am afraid to speak. The other day you called on some one to pray, and I shivered down to my shoes, I was so afraid you would ask me. I could not have prayed if you had paid me for it." This dumb devil was in full possession of him. He understood everything; you could not teach him much. I said, "You have a dumb devil. Do you believe the Lord Jesus can cast him out?" "Yes, I believe He can." "Yes, the devil himself believes that, but do you believe He will? I am afraid." "I am very glad of it; now let us kneel down and see whether the Lord will cast out the dumb devil." We were in a railway carriage together alone. We knelt down in the carriage and prayed. He could scarcely hear my voice for the noise; I think that Wag an encouragement to him. I went on praying to the Lord to loose the string of his tongue that he might speak plainly for the glory of God. He said, "Amen." "Thank God," I said, "the dumb devil is going." I began to pray again. He said, "Lord, answer prayer." "Amen," I said. "Hallelujah! the devil is going," and sure enough he began to pray for himself. I began to praise, and he was praising too. The train stopped, but we did not know anything about it; we went on praying and praising. The collector came to the door and said "Tickets," but we never stopped: we continued to praise God. Oh, we were happy! The guard shut the door and went away; he thought we were two madmen, I suppose! Oh, I wish there were more of such mad people. This man had got his liberty, and, glory be to God, he has used it since then. (W. Haslam.) Parallel Verses KJV: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? |
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