Exodus 17:12

""And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.""  — Exodus 17:12

So mighty was the prayer of Moses, that all depended upon it. The
petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of
Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul’s conflict, force and
fervour, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their
forces, and all will be well. You must wrestle with your sin, but the
major part of the wrestling must be done alone in private with God.
Prayer, like Moses’, holds up the token of the covenant before the
Lord. The rod was the emblem of God’s working with Moses, the symbol of
God’s government in Israel. Learn, O pleading saint, to hold up the
promise and the oath of God before him. The Lord cannot deny his own
declarations. Hold up the rod of promise, and have what you will.

Moses grew weary, and then his friends assisted him. When at any time
your prayer flags, let faith support one hand, and let holy hope uplift
the other, and prayer seating itself upon the stone of Israel, the rock
of our salvation, will persevere and prevail. Beware of faintness in
devotion; if Moses felt it, who can escape? It is far easier to fight
with sin in public, than to pray against it in private. It is remarked
that Joshua never grew weary in the fighting, but Moses did grow weary
in the praying; the more spiritual an exercise, the more difficult it
is for flesh and blood to maintain it. Let us cry, then, for special
strength, and may the Spirit of God, who helpeth our infirmities, as he
allowed help to Moses, enable us like him to continue with our hands
steady ""until the going down of the sun;"" till the evening of life is
over; till we shall come to the rising of a better sun in the land
where prayer is swallowed up in praise.

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• Putting away false worship – 2010
• Identification with Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death – 2010
• Acceptable to God because of His Son – 2010
• Archangel – 2009