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<title>Blue Letter Bible: Faith's Checkbook — Charles Spurgeon</title>
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<div class="desc-center"><div class="pad2020">January 16th</div></div>
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Even the Faintest Call
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And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.
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— <a onClick="return mV('Joe',2,32);">Joel 2:32</a></i>
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Why do I not call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that, when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down, and devise schemes, and invent plans? Why not at once roll myself and my burden upon the Lord? Straightforward is the best runner - why do I not run at once to the living God? In vain shall I look for deliverance anywhere else; but with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal SHALL to make it sure.
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I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word "Whosoever" is a very wide and comprehensive one. Whosoever means me, for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. I will therefore follow the leading of the text, and at once call upon the glorious Lord who has made so large a promise.
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My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find out ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver me.
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