[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0624":3},"JUNE 24\r\nConcerning the work of my hands command ye me (Isa. 45:11 ).\r\nOur Lord spoke in this tone when He said, \"Father, I will.\" Joshua used it when, in the supreme moment of triumph, he lifted up his  spear toward the setting sun, and cried, \"Sun, stand thou still!\"\r\nElijah used it when he shut the heavens for three years and six months, and again opened them.\r\nLuther used it when, kneeling by the dying Melanchthon, he forbade death to take his prey.\r\nIt is a marvelous relationship into which God bids us enter. We are\r\nfamiliar with words like those which follow in this paragraph: \"I,\r\neven my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host\r\nhave I commanded.\" But that God should invite us to command Him, this is a change in relationship which is altogether startling!\r\nWhat a difference there is between this attitude and the hesitating, halting, unbelieving prayers to which we are\r\naccustomed, and which by their perpetual repetition lose edge and point!\r\nHow often during His earthly life did Jesus put men into a position\r\nto command Him! When entering Jericho, He stood still, and said to the blind beggars:\r\n\r\n\"What will ye that I shall do unto you?\" It was as though He said, \"lam yours to command.\"\r\nCan we ever forget how He yielded to the Syrophenician woman the\r\nkey to His resources and told her to help herself even as she would?\r\nWhat mortal mind can realize the full significance of the position\r\nto which our God lovingly raises His little children? He seems to\r\nsay, \"All my resources are at your command.\" \"Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do. --F. B. Meyer.\r\nSay to this mountain, \"Go, Be cast into the sea\";\r\nAnd doubt not in thine heart That it shall be to thee.\r\nIt shall be done, doubt not His Word, Challenge thy mountain in the Lord!\r\nClaim thy redemption right,\r\nPurchased by precious blood; The Trinity unite\r\nTo make it true and good.\r\nIt shall be done, obey the Word,\r\nChallenge thy mountain in the Lord!\r\nSelf, sickness, sorrow, sin,\r\nThe Lord did meet that day On His beloved One,\r\nAnd thou art \"loosed away.\"\r\nIt has been done, rest on His Word, Challenge thy mountain in the Lord!\r\nCompass the frowning wall With silent prayer, then raise- Before its ramparts fall-\r\nThe victor's shout of praise.\r\nIt shall be done, faith rests assured, Challenge thy mountain in the Lord!\r\nThe two-leaved gates of brass,\r\nThe bars of iron yield,\r\nTo let the faithful pass,\r\nConquerors in every field.\r\nIt shall be done, the foe ignored,\r\nChallenge thy mountain in the Lord!\r\nTake then the faith of God,   Free from the taint of doubt; The miracle-working rod\r\nThat casts all reasoning out.\r\nIt shall be done, stand on the Word, Challenge thy mountain in the Lord! --Selected.",1783499793148]