"I will heal your backsliding." --- Jeremiah 3:22.
"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." --- Philippians 2:13.
O my dear Saviour, I would fain believe in thee, be faithful, obedient, and work always that which is good. And since this is also thy will, I trust it shall be done, for, If thou wilt and I will, who can hinder it? True it is, that sin, flesh, the world, and devils are against it; but shall these enemies be stronger than thou, the mighty God? Shall their opposition be able to quell thy work in me, if I do not consent to it? That can never be.
The more violence they use upon me, the more earnest may I be with thee in prayer; and the more I pray, the more glorious will thine assistance be: the more they hinder, the more thou wilt further, that all their hinderances may be swallowed up by thy furtherances, as the serpents of the sorcerers in Egypt were swallowed up by the serpent of Moses. The enemy will fall by his own sword; and the greatest opposition will turn to my good, and to the promoting of thy work. Everything, indeed, can overcome me if I do not abide in Christ by continual acting of faith and prayer; but by thus abiding in him, all opposition proves not only weak in itself, but profitable to my soul.
We honour our exalted King,
How sweet are his commands!
He guards our souls from hell and sin
By his almighty hand.
Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
We'll break through every foe;
The wings of love and arms of faith
Shall bear us conqu'rors through.