But you must first take it into your heart. Believe then that God will by the Holy Spirit make it living and powerful in you. Father, teach me every day so to receive Thy word in my heart that it can exercise there its blessed influence. Strengthen me in the deep conviction that even though I do not actually apprehend its meaning and power, I can still reckon on Thee to make the word living and powerful in me. The word is as a seed.
Seed requires time ere it springs up.
During this time it must be kept silently and constantly in the earth. The word must be in me the whole day, must abide in me, must dwell in me. One of the principal reasons is surely that they do not give the seed time to grow, that they do not keep it and reflect upon it, in the believing assurance that the word itself shall have its working.