{"id":3974,"date":"2009-02-15T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T18:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/isaiah-3316"},"modified":"2009-02-15T13:23:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T18:23:52","slug":"isaiah-3316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/02\/15\/isaiah-3316\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 33:16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread
       shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” 
              — Isaiah 33:16 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil
his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the
storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father,
though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet
forget you? When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father,
and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and
doubt him? Perhaps your affliction will continue upon you till you dare
to trust your God, and then it shall end. Full many there be who have
been tried and sore vexed till at last they have been driven in sheer
desperation to exercise faith in God, and the moment of their faith has
been the instant of their deliverance; they have seen whether God would
keep his promise or not. Oh, I pray you, doubt him no longer! Please
not Satan, and vex not yourself by indulging any more those hard
thoughts of God. Think it not a light matter to doubt Jehovah.
Remember, it is a sin; and not a little sin either, but in the highest
degree criminal. The angels never doubted him, nor the devils either:
we alone, out of all the beings that God has fashioned, dishonour him
by unbelief, and tarnish his honour by mistrust. Shame upon us for
this! Our God does not deserve to be so basely suspected; in our past
life we have proved him to be true and faithful to his word, and with
so many instances of his love and of his kindness as we have received,
and are daily receiving, at his hands, it is base and inexcusable that
we suffer a doubt to sojourn within our heart. May we henceforth wage
constant war against doubts of our God-enemies to our peace and to his
honour; and with an unstaggering faith believe that what he has
promised he will also perform. “Lord, I believe, help thou mine
unbelief.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread       shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.”                — Isaiah 33:16 Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfilhis promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall thestorehouses of heaven fail? Do you…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}