POOR girl! she has worked so hard at churning, and cannot get the butter to come. The milk has spattered all over the floor, and she has become tired and discouraged. I wonder if she has not thought to tell the Lord Jesus about it, for if she knows Him as her Saviour, she should know to go to Him about everything, and He is interested in all our circumstances. It may be she has not believed in the Lord Jesus, so carries all her own burdens. Even some who know the Lord Jesus, carry their burdens and troubles, and do not go the Lord about them.
There was a little girl who worked hard to bring eight children to the Sunday school, for then she would receive a nice Bible with her name on it in gold letters. She succeeded in getting seven to come, but she could not find an eighth. She told the superintendent that she could not get any more to come, and she was so anxious to receive a Bible. She was one who had accepted the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, but she had not thought she could go to the Lord Jesus about her difficulty, till she told the superintendent, so he asked her if she had told the Lord Jesus about it, and she replied that she had not. He told her to go and tell the Lord Jesus all about it, and told the other children to pray about it too. The result was the next Lord’s day she came with five children, so she had enough to get her Bible, and four more to start another reward.
It is good to know the Lord Jesus as the One who died for us, also we need to know Him as the One to go to about all our difficulties, whatever they may be.
There are two very important scriptures for us ever to remember in connection with prayer. One is,
Messages of God’s Love 4/17/1921