Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. The emperor wanted Ezra and his people to travel under military protection during their five months’ journey. But Ezra boasted that God, who had looked after Israel for forty years in the wilderness, and brought them out of Egypt, could take care of them very well for five months. That sounds very religious: but the truth is that neither Ezra, nor anybody else at that time, had ever seen a vision, ever heard God’s voice, witnessed a healing, or miracle, or had any sign from God whatever. Ezra was not a prophet: Ezra had nothing but the Scriptures.
But he believed God, resting purely upon the written Scriptures. He put the whole project into operation under the wings of the Lord. This kind of raw faith, based purely on the Word of God, is available to you today!
Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com
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