[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0404":3},"APRIL 4\r\nElisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see (2 Kings 6:17).\r\nThis is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one\r\nanother, \"Lord, open our eyes that we may see\"; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet is full of God's horses   and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory.\r\nAnd when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in a events of fife, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a \" chariot \"\r\nfor our souls.\r\nEverything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be\r\na Juggernaut car to crush us into misery or despair if we\r\nconsider it\r\nIt lies with each of us to choose which they shall be. It all\r\ndepends, not upon what these events are, but upon how we take them. If we he down under them, and let them roll over us and crush us,\r\nthey become Juggernaut cars, but if we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and  upward, they become the chariots of God. --Hannah Whitall Smith.\r\nThe Lord cannot do much with a crushed soul, hence the adversary's attempt to push the Lord's people into despair and hopelessness\r\nover the condition of themselves, or of the church. It has often\r\nbeen said that a dispirited army goes forth to battle with the\r\ncertainty of being beaten. We heard a missionary say recently that\r\nshe had been invalided home purely because her spirit had fainted,\r\nwith the consequence that her body sunk also. We need to understand more of these attacks of the enemy upon our spirits and how to\r\nresist them. If the enemy can dislodge us from our position, then he seeks to \"wear us out\" (Daniel 7:25) by a prolonged siege, so that at last we, out of sheer weakness, let go the cry of victory.",1783499792051]