We May Speak for God

by Rick T on May 19, 2012

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“If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you will be as my mouth”. That was a word spoken to the prophet Jeremiah. But Charles Spurgeon tells us that it is something all believers should aspire to – to speak the very words of God. …Next on Faith’s Checkbook.




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Faith’s Checkbook
Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon
For May 19
We May Speak for God

Thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you,
and you will stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
you will be as my mouth. (Jeremiah 15:19)

Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his Lord.

He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the Lord would continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the Lord’s sifting work upon the professors of his day, and then the Lord gave him this word: ” you will be as my mouth.”

What an honor! Should not every preacher, yes, even every believer, covet that? For God to speak through us, what a marvelous thing! We will speak sure, pure truth; and we will speak it with power. Our word will not return void; it will be a blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it will do so at their own peril. Our lips will feed many. We will arouse the sleeping and call the dead to life.

Pray that it may be so with all the called servants of our Lord. †

For May 19th, Faith’s Check Book Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon.

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