Streams in the Desert November 25 Daily Devotional

Take the arrows... Smite upon the ground And he smote thrice and stayed. And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou
shouldest have smitten five or six times (2 Kings 13:18, 19).

How striking and eloquent the message of these words! Jehoash thought he had done very well when he duplicated and triplicated what to him was certainly an extraordinary act of faith. But the
Lord and the prophet were bitterly disappointed because he had stopped halfway.
He got something. He got much. He got exactly what he believed for in the final test but he did not get all that the prophet meant and
the Lord wanted to bestow. He missed much of the meaning of the promise and the fullness of the blessing. He got something better than the human, but he did not get God's best.
Beloved, how solemn is the application! How heart-searching the message of God to us! How important that we should learn to pray through! Shall we claim all the fullness of the promise and all
the possibilities of believing prayer? A. B. Simpson.
"Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think" (Eph. 3:20).
There is no other such piling up of words in Paul's writings as
these, "exceeding abundantly above all." and each word is packed with infinite love and power to "do" for His praying saints. There
is one limitation, "according to the power that worketh in us." He
will do just as much for us as we let Him do in us. The power that
saved us, washed us with His own blood, filled us with might by His Spirit kept us in manifold temptations, will work for us, meeting
every emergency, every crisis, every circumstance, and every adversary. --The Alliance.