January 18
“As for God, his way is perfect” (Psa. 18:30).
God always looks at the end from the beginning. This is something that we human beings
cannot easily understand, but if we wait patiently, God Himself will teach us.
From the time God called David He had for him a very high and heavenly purpose, though
David did not realise this for many years. We also, when we first come to the Lord in
repentance, do not know what is in the mind of God for us in saving us, at that time we are
only concerned about being forgiven, washed, cleansed, and made righteous before God, and
when He does begin to teach us His own way we begin to question Him or even resist Him.
But we see from the Word of God that, through difficulties of different kinds, God seeks to
reveal His mind clearly and progressively to us. Everything experienced in life begins to have
a deeper and a more heavenly and eternal meaning. We find that God is leading us in His own
way, according to His own mind, thought and plan, we shall find that we have to wait very
patiently to learn the mind of God.
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“Gad” means? | January 17
“For who hath despised the day of small things?” (Zechariah 4:10).
“Gad” means “a troop or an army cometh” (Gen. 30:11). Gad was the first son of mother Zilpah, but Leah
believed that a troop was following after him. She saw something great in that which was seemingly small.
We also should learn to look far beyond the small beginning and see the great things that will take place
later. For example in John 4:3 we read that the Lord Jesus Christ left Judea for Galilee. There were two
roads to Galilee. One via Samaria and other via mount Carmel. The Jews would never go via Samaria (John
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4:9) but the Lord Jesus Christ wanted to go through Samaria. The Lord said to His disciples, “I have decided
to go through Samaria”, but they replied, “Why go that way? Who will give us food to eat and water to
drink?” The Scripture says, “he must needs go through Samaria”. What was the reason? For the sake of
one woman He went there and the whole of Samaria was shaken. Through one soul, He won the whole
country (John 4:39; Acts 8:5-8).
We think that the Lord works more through big crowds. That is not God’s way. Through small things, He
does great things. One day a man came in tears to see us. He said, “Please pray for my wife, she is very
ill.” He was a Hindu. We went to see her, gave a short message then prayed and left. The Lord healed that
woman and through her husband many people came to the Lord in that area. On another occasion, a lady
came to see me in Madras. She said to me, “Please pray for my husband, he is very, very sick in the
hospital. The doctors are not able to cure him.” We spent only a few minutes with them in prayer, gave
a short message and came away. Afterwards, the whole family which was from Hyderabad came for
fellowship. In the year 1950 they wrote to me, requesting me to go to Hyderabad and that is how the Lord
began to work in that city through a small thing, not through great things. That is what we learn from Gad.