Greetings, once again, in the precious name of our Savior and Lord,
Jesus Christ!

The feature articles for the Febuary Newsletter of Well of Oath are
"Receiving" and "Knowing."
 

Other articles available for viewing at www.wellofoath.com are:

Prophecy: The Two Babylon's
Resources:
Typology/Symbolism: The Bide and the Wife
Discipleship: Detoxing from Church
BIO's: Madame Guyon
Bible Study: Revelation

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Receiving

A friend of mine came across a five-pound note from Bank of England
about a hundred years old. On taking it to the Bank of England he
presented the five pounds, and the bank paid out accordingly.

He then asked the cashier: "Is this all you will give me?" You have
had the use of this money for a century, and at five percent interest
it should be worth about 600 hundred pounds!"

The cashier smiled, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Our doors have
been open every day!" IN all that time no-one came and asked us to
make good on the note. And as a result, no one had received.

"How sad, that this is all too often common to Christian experience.
The subject has the right to petition the sovereign. But if he does
not make use of that right, he cannot complain if the sovereign does
not act. God has "granted to us His precious and exceeding great
promises" (2 Peter 1:4). If men do not apply to Him for the
fulfillment of these promises God does not act. He says: "Ye have not
because ye ask not" (James 4:2). "Truly, truly, I say to you, Whatever
you shall ask the Father in My name, He will give you. Until now you
asked nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy
may be full" Joh 16:23-4.

"Ask of Me, and I will give the nations as Your inheritance; and the
uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession" (Psa 2:8).

Knowing

An elderly Christian shared this experience of his youthful days.

He was a gardener's helper and went some distance to work. On the way
there lay a small, triangular field of wheat. One spring day, while
passing on his way to work, he heard the farmer's man say to the
farmer, "That's a nice piece of wheat, master." "Yes," was the reply;
"that will be all right if the Almighty will let it alone!" Though not
a pious lad, the boy thought this very profane. Each day of his
journey he watched the field all that summer. It grew, eventually
coming to full ear. But when harvest came, there was not a kernel in
any ear on the field. The Almighty had let it alone. This so deeply
affected the lad that he was moved to seek God for himself, lest he
should be let alone, and be lost, as all the labor on that field had
been lost.