Desiring God

• Cry more bitterly

• And your heart will be more earnest for Him.

There is no poor sinner who loves mercy more than when they have been carrying it for a season.

• Perhaps that is the reason why God keeps you waiting.

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One more thought here. Perhaps it has come already.

• I think some of you are pardoned and you do not know it.

• I’m talking of your desire of God. Your walk with Him.

• People have got the strangest notions in the world about conversion.

Some people feel they need to have some sort of electric shock when they were converted.

• If you think this will happen, you will be waiting a long time.

Some people think they are not pardoned because they have never heard a voice in their ears.

I should be very sorry to have my salvation dependent this.

• I should be afraid that the devil had applied it

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"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief,"

I think you would find that after all you are not excluded.

• Oh! may God speak loudly in your soul

• That you may know that he has forgiven you!

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But there is one more serious enquiry: and it is,

• "Will God grant my desire at last?"

• Yes, poor soul he will.

• It is impossible that you should have desired God and should be lost

Never can anyone say, “I desired mercy of God and He would not give it to me: I sought grace at the hands of Jesus and he would not give it to me.”

Never will that ever happen, at least on God’s side of the fence.

If a man says this Satan is so pleased, saying, “here is a sinner that perished praying: God has not kept His promise

We know God says, “whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved:

• But there are many who reject that call:

• And when you do; they howl for joy in hell!

They would sing a blasphemous song against the Almighty God that just one poor desiring soul should be there!

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I will tell you one thing:

• I have heard many wicked things in my life

• I have heard many men swear and blaspheme God, till I have trembled

• but there is one thing I never did hear a man say yet

• and I think God would surely not permit any man to perpetrate such a lie

• I never heard even the most wicked man say,

• "I sincerely sought God with full purpose of heart

• and yet he has not heard me

• and will not answer me, but has cast me away."

It is impossible; God hears the cries of His children.

Although I know that people can be infinitely wicked

• It is possible for man to say this..

• But I can say I never heard it;

• and I believe there are some of you here who can say

Even in my lifetime, I have never heard a sinner say,

“I have sought God and He will not hear me, He has cast me away from His face and will not give me mercy.”