Episode 336: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 302

Episode Summary:

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. (2 Timothy 2:3-4)

26 Someone asked me, some time ago, “Shall we seek our gifts now for our ministries?” Some Methodist brethren who had just received the Holy Ghost.

27 I said, “No. Don’t do that. When you do, then God can’t use you.” I said, “The only thing to do, is just go ahead being a Christian. If God has called you, He’ll place you just exactly where you belong.”

28 Usually, those who seek and try to get things, if God would give them something, they’d, more or less, be a stuffed shirt. Usually, the man that God calls, is the man that’s trying to run from Him, if anything; Moses and Paul, and different ones, trying to get away from the call.

29 But we find here that, God, in spite of all the failure that Moses had done, He still had His hand on him. And He called him to go, do His service, called him to his commission. And what a consolation that must have been to Joshua, when he heard God say, “As I was with Moses, so will I be with you.”

30 Although, if I’m trying, and I fail, God won’t leave me. I never have much confidence in anybody that’s too afraid to do anything. I would rather be found a failure than too lazy to try.

31 One time it was said that the Ballard and Ballard Flour Company hired a man, and he was going to sign his name, and the man had no eraser on the end of his pencil. And Mr. Ballard said to him, said, “Why haven’t you got eraser?”

He said, “I don’t make mistakes.”

32 He said, “Then I can’t use you. Because, if you make mistakes, you…You don’t make mistakes, you won’t do nothing.” That’s true.

33 God don’t hold you responsible for your mistakes. He holds you responsible for your willful sin. “He that sins wilfully, after he has received the knowledge of the Truth.” But a man that’s going to do something, is going to blunder, he’s going to fall. He’s going to make mistakes. But if he’s really Divinely called, and God in his heart, he’ll rise again.

34 Used to be, coming to the church here, years ago, and they may be here this morning, a little man and his wife. They used to sing a song that thrilled me. Goes something like this:

Forgive me, Lord, and try me one more time,

I’ll be Yours if You’ll be mine;

If I fall or if I fail, let me rise and try again,

Forgive me, Lord, and try me one more time.

35 I like that. For, any good soldier is apt to get wounded or hurt. But if he’s still a soldier, and got a purpose, and something to fight for, he’ll rise and try again. And any good soldier of the Cross will do the same thing.

60-0911m – “As I Was With Moses, So I Will Be With Thee”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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