August 8 Evening Devotional | All Things Are Possible! | Morning and Evening by Spurgeon

Evening, August 8 | “All things are possible to him who believes.” —Mark 9:23 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Mark 9:20-24 (NASB)

They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth. And He asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!” And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Devotional Video Transcript:

Many professed Christians are always doubting and fearing, and they forlornly think that this is the necessary state of believers. This is a mistake, for “all things are possible to him who believes”; and it is possible for us to mount into a state in which a doubt or a fear shall be but as a bird of passage flitting across the soul, but never lingering there. When you read of the high and sweet communions enjoyed by favored saints, you sigh and murmur in the chamber of your heart, “Alas, these are not for me!”

O climber, if you have but faith, you shall yet stand upon the sunny pinnacle of the temple, for “all things are possible to him who believes.” You hear of exploits which holy men have done for Jesus; what they have enjoyed of him; how much they have been like him; how they have been able to endure great persecutions for his sake; and you say, “Ah! as for me, I am but a worm; I can never attain to this.”

But there is nothing which one saint was, that you may not be. There is no elevation of grace, no attainment of spirituality, no clearness of assurance, no post of duty, which is not open to you if you have but the power to believe. Lay aside your sackcloth and ashes, and rise to the dignity of your true position; you are little in Israel because you will be so, not because there is any necessity for it. It is not meet that you should grovel in the dust, O child of a King. Ascend! The golden throne of assurance is waiting for you! The crown of communion with Jesus is ready to bedeck your brow.
Wrap yourself in scarlet and fine linen, and fare sumptuously every day; for if you believe, you may eat the royal portion; your land shall flow with milk and honey, and your soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness.
Gather golden sheaves of grace, for they await you in the fields of faith.
“All things are possible to him who believes.”

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