Loving God's Word — Keith Daniel

Thank you. I bless the Lord to be here, good brother, and I'm amazed that I am here. Because I was in Portland last year on a 10-week tour of America, and there weren't so many people. I don't know. I think the good man there tried things.

He said, next time I know what to do. He suddenly found that there were churches all over that do know me. But what was so precious is those that did come, and there were three little ladies from this town that were there in the meetings.

And one was John's wife, and then there's Bonnie. But I was very grateful for those three little... Why I noticed these three little ladies was because... I don't know how many we got, about 50 maybe, maybe more, I don't know.

But they would just sit there, tears pouring down their eyes. You know, I shouldn't say this of them, but I looked at it right from the beginning to the end. It didn't take much, and they were... They just wanted God.

And so I did chat to them, and then they came up with another group of first another three, up to Klatskanai, which is a bit further inland, where there was a lot more people. But they were saying, would you ever come up to where we stay?

And they mentioned this place. Never heard of this place, by the by. And I said, well I don't know. They said, well there won't be much there, but it's just a small group, but we don't know what God will do.

But so I said, well it's not really in my hands. They organized the tours for me, but you can always phone, put your request down to this man who puts things together, one of the people that put things together.

And I was amazed. When I arrived here, I didn't realize I was where these ladies were, until John told me about his wife and other ladies down in Portland. And I thought, those are the ladies that said, do you think you can come up to this place out in the middle of nowhere?

Well I'm glad, glad to be staying in the home, and I'm grateful to God for all of you that are here tonight. It's election day, and I was bracing myself. I thought, my word, people are going to stand a long time to vote in the cold perhaps.

And I wondered who would come after this day, which I think has been quite a traumatic thing for your nation, this specific election. So we don't know the results yet. Don't tell me, in case I lose heart.

And if you tell me who won, I don't know. Just don't want to tell you who I wanted to. It doesn't take much imagination to know who, but still. Anyway, I'm very grateful that you came in spite of it being this particular day in your country.

I think the whole world is hanging on to who wins this election, because it's going to affect a great amount of the world, morally, let alone politically. And the world knows it. So your people know it more than anyone else, don't doubt it, what they're voting for.

Well I do thank you for being here. Thank you for the singing. There's two pieces of full-scale paper I'm putting here. You call it legal pad, okay. Most American words like that, Africans won't know what you're saying.

A lot of my words, you wouldn't know what I'm saying. English has changed. The American destroyed any hope of the English saying thank you. But I love the Americans. I love the Americans for a number of reasons.

God's Mercy and the Witness of America

People think, why hasn't God judged America for all the evil that comes out of this country and affects the whole world? Well I think more good still comes out of America than evil, personally. Otherwise I think God will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

He put in the balances why God spared this land with all the evil from Hollywood alone. That's influencing the children and the next generation to just throw away any restraint on sin. I would say in the balances there's many reasons that God hasn't let the balance dip yet, because of all those millions who do love God, and don't want evil, and hate the evil, and pray, and many other reasons.

America's, well 90 of the mission field would close down totally tomorrow across the whole world if America was gone. I think God loves you people for that. I would guarantee you close to 90 of every mission you can find on earth would just have to close their doors, apart from some amazing source that no one knows where, to keep these doors open.

I'd say close to that amount of Bibles that spread through the world are no longer from England. It's America. I'd say close to 90 of every Bible, of every language printed is from America, without any hope of return.

Nothing for business, just the sacrificial giving of the people who do love God, and have a burden. Most missionaries on earth today come from America. Most. It used to be second most was England, in spite of the fact that only two, three percent of England goes to church.

97 don't go near a church. Ever. Ever. Ever. Not even to marry. Of those three percent, one percent is evangelical. It used to be a great nation, but still it's the second most people on earth, from any particular land, is England.

Until now, suddenly Korea's taken over. Second most missionaries on earth come from Korea, and they go straight to Islam. We're through fear going, because we know what can happen to our missionaries, so we hold them back carefully.

But they seem to have something in their hearts, these Korean, the godly there. They just go and, one on one, try and win. The Islam people. There's no other nation on earth, by the way. So we bless the Lord for America, for the good in America.

Poor old Elijah felt he was all alone, you know. But there were many that had not bowed the need to bow, not only Elijah. And it is so with us, we sometimes feel alone, because of what we see. But believe me, there are many in this country who love Christ.

And I bless you for that. And pray daily for America, as I pray for my own nation, I pray for this nation. So the newsletter is on these pieces of paper, and this is the little copies I gave out last night, if you want to take one, please.

And if you'd like to pray, don't put your name down unless you would really, somehow in your heart, feel God leading you to put it down, so you can receive every second or third month, about two or three months of meetings, and just be able to pray, a little prayer as you follow.

Knowing where I am, and knowing to pray for my family, whom I leave most of their lives, I'd be very grateful if you feel that God leads you to put your name down, to pray, and to commit us to Christ in truth, because of your love for souls and compassion.

Now God bless you. So I leave those there, I even brought a pen, I'm gonna put the pen down there. People steal my pens, so someone came and gave me a pen, all right, they said try this, and they had written on their vows not to steal.

So I put it down, and the next night it was gone. So anyway, you can have my pen, I know you're gonna take it anyway. Can we bow a moment in prayer, please? Father, we thank Thee that at the end of this day, a day in which many, many, many prayed across the whole world for this land.

I would say multitudes of millions of people prayed across the world for America today, but at the end of this very, very unusual day, the whole world is looking at and waiting to see. We come as Thy people, and we bow before Thee, and we worship Thee that Thou art God, and Thou art on the throne, and Thou will never, ever forget or forsake Thine own.

We're Thine, and we're kept by the power of God, through faith, but we're kept by Thy power. And so we don't look at tomorrow with fear, but with peace that passes all understanding. Men's hearts will fail them for fear of things that come on this earth, Thou said, just before Thy return, but nowhere does it say that Thy people's hearts will fail them for fear.

And that, I suppose, is the greatest testimony we can have in this world, is to walk out there with peace that passes all understanding, that others will require to know how is it you're at peace when we are so full of fear.

Come God, bless us this night, keep us under the blood of Jesus Christ, protect us from Satan and demons, who we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in higher places.

So come now God, and by faith help us in Thy greatness and risen resurrected power, to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, all the devil could do, put to nothing, God, through our faith in Thee.

Come cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Christ, and wash me in the blood of Christ, and fill me with the Holy Spirit, and come speak to every heart, especially the hardest, in Jesus Christ's name, Amen.

Meditating on Scripture and the Call to Psalm 1

In praying what to preach tonight, I had a lot to think about, and I love just to quote books of the Bible. I suppose most of you know that, that that's the bulk of my ministry, is just to bring the words of God, and compare scriptures with scripture, and these messages have gone all over the world, and I thank God for that.

Mostly the Americans spread them to over 80 countries of the world, and in my amazing way, through Mr. Gothard, and Denny Keniston, and Harold Vaughn, and Soterios, the Canadian revival movement, and I am so grateful.

So I was toying with the idea of bringing a whole book to you, and contemplating as long as no one looked at the watch, verse by verse, and passage by passage, but then I just felt somehow in my heart the Lord wanted me to bring rather this, as I was praying and seeking God's guidance.

And so I'd like you to turn to Psalm 1. If you know it off by heart, you don't have to do that. Many people know the scriptures to such a degree, it's staggering. I preached one night the Sermon on the Mount in America, to a very great congregation or auditorium, and going back from that auditorium, a little ten-year-old boy in the back of the vehicle we were driving, he said, Brother Daniel, I can quote the Sermon on the Mount too.

He was ten years old. I said, Can you? Then do it. And he quoted word perfect the entire Sermon on the Mount. Oh bless the mother and father that fill their children with the one thing that will stand, nothing will survive but the Word in the long run.

I've been in groups where children have stood up, quoted the whole book of Ephesians, about 20 of them, just God. The whole book of James, 1 John, 1 Peter, the whole book, children, little children, quoting, sometimes in threes, fours, sometimes twos.

Oh thank God for people who put a love and emphasis in the memorizing of this Word into their children's hearts. So many of you who love God's Word as these little children everywhere I go across America, probably could quote Psalm 1, which is an amazing Psalm.

When you open the book of Psalms by the by, you must know that they're songs. David, the bulk of the Psalms, the songs David sang, and they were sang to a music, and right through the ages, even to a form of metric music, there was the singing of the Psalms.

They're actually prayers, the bulk of them. Most of our hymns are prayers, and most of our hymns, if just once we all sang with our heart and soul and might, not for each other to sound beautiful, but from the depth of our soul to God meaning every word, revival would break out, we wouldn't need sermons.

But the hymns, the prayers, you just want to read those words, what you're saying to God, it must be total sacrilege if you don't do it, in God's eyes that is. What a grief, to pray such words and not to mean them in your whole life.

Not to mean them to God, that is. But Psalms are prayers, mostly, sung to God, like we sing. Eighty percent of our hymns are just prayers put to music. Prayers have great meaning. Luther, Martin Luther, he didn't have much of the hymns, there was a few, but some are survived, the darkness of the Roman Age, where the gospel was kept back in many ways, until he came out and gave the word back by God's mercy, protecting him, and brought the world back, and nation upon nation just turned away from all these doctrines, which was his pain for sins, rather than by grace through faith, not of works.

But Luther said he couldn't pray sometimes, he was so weary with all the attacks of the enemy, through people mainly, but he weared out, oh, and he said there were times he just couldn't pray, he was so totally just drained, emotionally and mentally, through all that was coming against him.

He was ordered by the Pope to be put to death, and anyone who saw him thought he was living in this constant thought that he could be killed, he had to be kidnapped by godly people to keep him from being killed, and hidden for years in a castle, never seen.

But Luther said when he couldn't pray through to God, he found something amazing, and he didn't know this, he just found it as he was in desperation to pray, just suddenly couldn't get through, he said he just couldn't get through to God, he couldn't, it was like a brick wall, have you ever prayed like that?

And Luther said, he opened up, and he just, in exasperation, just sang a song, on his knees this time, now that he's saved, with the Holy Spirit in him, and he found he was in the presence of God, as he had never ever known in his life at the end of that psalm, the consciousness that he was right in the holiest of holies, that God and heaven had opened, and he was so affected that he realized that he began to sing the psalms in most of his devotions.

At the beginning of his devotions, he didn't waste time trying to work himself up, trying to get through, trying to somehow, constantly just prayed by singing, and he said he got through to the presence of God.

That was the most time of how he began his quiet times in the mornings, just singing until he was in the presence of God, then he would do his readings and praying, when he knew he had just broken through.

He said this is the schoolmaster of prayer in the Bible, in the set work, the handbook in the school of God. John Wesley did the same. He took Luther's words and he read it, when he couldn't get through, he said, when he was just rattling in weariness of mind, and he got through to God.

And but now Luther had written hymns, it wasn't just the psalms, but the psalms of this hymn, David's hymns, other people's hymns, that they sang and wrote. And so Wesley said he found that through singing he got through to the presence of God.

And he wrote, and mostly Charles wrote, but even Wesley himself, John Wesley, great hymns of our faith, all prayers, mostly prayers, filled with doctrine. Andrew Murray said he couldn't get through to God, but he read these words.

And my father, my godly father, we heard him singing, four o 'clock in the morning, all just pouring out his soul in song. And I said to Daddy one day, Daddy, why do you sing so much in your quiet time, early in the morning, four o 'clock, you Daddy, Daddy, singing to God.

Oh he was so ashamed, he said, I didn't know anybody could hear me. He was very ashamed. I said, Daddy, the neighbors could hear you. But I don't mind that, I just want to know why is it you sing so much?

The great hymns of the faith, you know. He said, well, he had read about Luther, and Wesley, and great men, right down to our Andrew Murray in South Africa, who got through to God by singing hymns or the psalms.

And he said, it works Keith, so I don't worry, I don't waste my time with what doesn't work. I want to get straight through to the presence of God and not waste a long time battling. And so I do what works, and I'm right in God's presence.

After a few hymns, I just ride tender in touch with God. So I suppose that's the main reason God gave us the book of Psalms. The schoolmaster in the school of prayer, this is the teacher, the book of Psalms.

So Luther said, anyway, Psalm 1 is a staggering psalm. It's not a prayer. But it had to be written. There's no mistake in the order of the book, so read them in their order by the by. I like these other methods, but God had a particular reason he gave it an order.

So read the old and the new together. Three of the old, three, four, five chapters of the old, three, four, five of the new. Don't neglect the old for the new, but don't neglect the new for the old. If you go through three chapters a day in one year, you through the Bible once.

That's 10 minutes a day, and that's slow reading. Unless you get long Psalm 119, but most chapters, three a day. So if you've been saved one year, you should be through the Bible once. Now if you gave God 10 minutes a day in 24 hours of the day.

If you haven't been through once, you didn't give God 10 minutes of just slow reading. 10 minutes in 24 hours. You didn't give God. And you love God as much as you love this book. Don't tell me there are other evidences.

The other evidence is the result of this. 10 minutes of 24 hours is what you prove to God and Satan, where God stands in your life. You give God 20 minutes, six chapters a day, you're twice as through in a year.

Give God an hour, give God two hours. Well, you could be through this book in 500 times soon, before you're dead anyway. Trust me, I know many who've been through this book 400 times. Quite a few have been through over 500 times, and some many more than that.

My daddy, well, he staggered the world by how much he went through this book. He staggered literally multitudes across the world who heard of it. And he shook the powers of hell to it. Blessed. I love that word.

I love the old King James. Don't tell me to be defending the King James now. Somebody said you ought to get up and in defense of the King James. There's certain people going around telling you all the problems of the New Translations, and there are problems.

Whoo! But I said, no, no, no, I don't need to do that. I just quote the King James, and I find people in their multitudes just put the New Translations down. So we're going back to that. We do understand it.

It's anointed. It's something sacred. In all these hundreds of years, believe me, it's the most used. Our generation seems to think it's the unusable, because we're just different from the rest. But blessed, I suppose, happy would be the literal translation if you want to look at all the New Translations.

But I don't know about that. I don't know a godless person I can say is blessed. Blessed is written across the land. I know many happy godless people. You think the unsaved are all unhappy. Oh, you're in for a shock.

A lot of them are happy in their sin. Not for long, though. It always crumbles. Every single life crumbles, no matter what it is. But this is God's happiness. As a result of doing what God says you must do, his happiness, it's so different from the happiness the world gives you.

My peace give I unto you. Not as the world giveth. You see, the world gives you peace. Of course, go to these Eastern religions, you'll get peace. I mean, who wouldn't? Sit and watch the tree for ten hours.

Who wouldn't have peace? I mean, it's ridiculous. But let them get up, and five minutes later they're in torment. Not much peace, unless they switch themselves off to every single thing in the world by going really, closing their mind to every reality in life, just because of the tree.

No. It's God's peace. It's God's joy. My joy, the joy of the Lord. You can get happiness. You can laugh at dirty jokes. You can say, what a happy time we had. And you're not telling a lie, but God's joy.

You don't need dirty jokes. The joy of the Lord. You know where God's joy comes from? As a result of your relationship with Christ. You don't need dirty jokes. You don't need dirty films. You don't need immoral things on the TV, degrading, denying decency, and undermining everything that's decent in life.

And you laugh at the absolute obnoxiousness of undermining everything that's decent. You don't need that when you're saved. You see, joy. You don't need to joke. I get scared of these people that are always joking, you know.

They stand up and put one big joke, you know. Oh, they're always screaming and laughing. Then a poor man like me has to come and try and preach something solemn. Be careful. Laughter is not sin. But Christians don't need jokes.

The world do. Our joy comes as a result of our relationship with Jesus Christ. And we have more joy than the unsaved will ever know by a billion miles they can't come near. Because it's consistent. It's joy unspeakable.

And full of joy. There's no way you could ever share until a person finds God and a relationship with Christ. In thy presence, it's fullness of joy. There's a fullness of joy. Oh, now God says, blessed.

It's a happiness. It's a joy. It's a fulfillment that is the result of doing what God says. He will give you his peace that passes all understanding. Not just a peace that can be maintained through switching off and becoming some sort of a meditator and denying everything else of a demand in life that's decent.

Blessed. I love that word. Is the man that has a testimony of salvation? No. Many, many people who testify they saved, honestly, you'd think it's cursed to be a Christian. But the word blessed is written by God across a life that does this.

Not that this is unsaved because I came out in a meeting. This, you will never, ever, ever be looked upon by your children as something I want. By your enemies, I want what this man's got inside. They might anger outside, but inside, you will never be looked upon by anyone for God will never write across your life.

No matter how religious you are, no matter what testimony you've got, blessed. This is something amazing what this man has got from God. And it's only God that could have given him because no human can come near such blessedness, such joy, such peace, such fulfillment.

Blessed. God's blessedness. God's writing across is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. He never is influenced by the ungodly. Never. Not to you who come to church and go out there and you're influenced to do what the ungodly tell you to do.

The moment you're out the door most. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. He never will do. He'll never be influenced by what the ungodly try to say to him to do. Nor standeth in the way of sinners.

He will never go where sinners go for sin. He will never go again where sinners go for sin. Blessed is that man. Now God's gonna tell you what will stagger the world, beloved. Outside of this, I don't care what testimony you've got, the world will look upon you, beginning in your home, by your children, as cursed.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. Nor standeth in the way of sinners. He doesn't go where sinners go for their sin. Nor does he go where sinners go for their sin. Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. That's a staggering thing, scorning. The scorners delight in their scorning, the Bible says. What's your delight? Proverbs 1 .22, the scorners delight. They actually delight in scorning.

Now speaking about scorners of godly people. They scorn a man or a woman or a child or a friend or a husband or a father or a mother or a... They scorn in their heart and they scorn with their words and they scorn in their minds, those that turn to God.

If you don't allow the godless to influence you, if you don't go where the sinners go for sin, then those who sit in the seat of the scornful will scorn you. They'll scorn you. The moment you turn from their influences always.

You'll be accounted as mad, Isaiah says. Do you know Isaiah said, because about 70 of Isaiah's was prophesying about the gospel dispensation. From the birth of Christ to his death, to his resurrection, right into heaven.

All these prophecies and he says as a result of people turning from sin and evil because of the effect of the gospel being preached. In the gospel you will be accounted as mad. You'll be looked on by certain people as mad.

Not just all these religions. You're mad. They're heartful. And then the bible tells us in Christ even scorners in your own home. A man's enemies become the members of his own house. You get scorners.

When you turn from sin and their hearts start condemning them and they don't want to turn from sin, they embrace it. They look upon a man who does that with scorn. It's amazing how much a scorner can wear out a saint though.

Proverbs 13 verse 1, A wise son heareth his father's instruction, but a scorner heareth not rebuke. You know if your child scorns you, which is full in the proverbs of what that happens. God doesn't talk about something that doesn't happen.

Children shall rise up against the father. A man's enemies shall become the members of his own household. God didn't come and say I'm going to bring peace on earth amongst your families. That's in heaven brother.

He told you brace yourself. They're scorners. No sitteth in the seat of the scornful. They'll never ever go where scorners are. They'll never associate themselves or go near to fellowship to be with those that scorn, those who turn from sin, that scorn the godly.

2 Timothy 3 verse 3, Despises of those that are good. Can you believe men would do that? They despise. They hate the good. They love the evil. They hate good. They despise. They scorn you. When you turn from their influence, you don't go to their places.

You separate yourself from the scorners. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. That's a promise. Oh we love the promises you know. But God guarantees you this. If you want to live this book, it'll start in your home.

You don't have to go down to the old wicked friends down the street. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution beginning in hell. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Don't doubt it.

They are the ones who sin. There's no escaping it. No escaping it. You know how it can wear you out. Job cried out in his longing for death. He cried out, there the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest.

Those who are worn out. You know the devil wears out the saints mostly through wicked people. In their home, you want to see men worn out by their wives who don't want Christ. They're tired. It's one war.

It's scorning and undermining everything he is. There the wicked cease from troubling at death. There the weary at last will find rest from all these underminings. Scorning. They sit not in the seat of the scornful.

They'll never associate themselves with those that scorn. They'll never ever ever ever ever be able to be in their company without fleeing within seconds. Those that scorn are godly. Elisha was scorned the Bible said.

He was mocked by young men and suddenly God killed them. They were dead in a terrifying way within moments. Now that wasn't just because they mocked him for his bald head. He was terribly bald even though he was young.

The Bible tells us. They, I believe without any doubt in the context of what God did there and what was happening. They mocked him. They scorned him because he was a man of God. They knew. Don't believe they didn't know who Elisha was.

They knew and they mocked. That means there was something so wicked in these young men and God struck them dead the way they were so wicked in their hatred of good. Their hatred of a man of God. Don't doubt it.

They were scorning there. My wife, her father and mother are farmers. They have a large farm in Africa. And my father-in-law is a godly man. He preaches more than he farms. I think the only reason he sits on a tractor in the day is to work out the next sermon.

But he's loved across my land by many multitudes of people and many many greatly educated men. Theologically and great universities would flock to hear this name. This farmer who's never ever been in any academic institution or faculty.

He's just been in the school of God. And he survived by this book and he got to know it. Not here but here. How it works. Oh he's loved. But he also preaches to his workers. And the workers of our land many times are a poorer class as is much of Africa.

And a great percentage of them lie drunk from little boys. You can't believe it. It's not even stopped by the parents. Comes Friday night and the little salaries. The drinking. Just all over. You see children.

You see bodies. You see people lying in the streets. It's a shame. It's something like a scourge upon South Africa of how much of a particular group in our land that work on the farmlands lie drunk. It's a great problem socially in our land.

But he preaches to his workers that work hard through the week but lay drunk. Many times in the night but especially the weekend. He preaches sometimes to people who stagger through that door but just try and get to hear this man they respect.

Pours his heart down. I just heard tears coming down his great man as he preaches to them in numbers and numbers. Actually many did come to Christ. But one young fellow who grew up on the farm. They have all their homesteads on the same farm.

But they work. But he grew up from a boy. He had been a drunk from a boy. When he's not drinking a good man but when he's drinking he beat his wife. He beat his children. There was wife's face. I saw a woman one day.

She worked in the house. Her face just cut open and swollen. And when he gets sober he weeps and sobs like a baby. He can't believe he did that. He was a totally different human when drink got hold of him.

And he couldn't stop. But he was listening to the gospel preached by this man who loved his soul, hated his sin. This man he works for from a boy right through. And he came out and wept and sobbed. God do something with my life.

Save me please. God help me. I can't do this to my wife. And he sobbed for Christ to save him. He stopped drinking. First time since a little boy, early teenage, 30. No drink. Picked up the Bible. His face began to shine.

With all the scars of sin and wounds through fights and knife fights in his drunkenness began to shine. Peace was in his eyes. His wife used to walk through the door with a smile and dignity. He'd come to work in the house.

His children suddenly found they didn't live in fear of daddy walking through that door. What are we going to face? Two years in every service. Loving the word. But his friends from childhood, two of them, they undermined him.

They had to work alongside of him all the time, scorning him. They didn't respect him for turning from this, for beating his wife, his children from lying drunk in the gutters. But they delight in their scorning.

They scorned him and undermined him all the time. Come on, drink. Come on. Pour it in his face. Get away from me. Get away from me. Never his childhood friends. He's got to work with them. They lived two houses, three houses, four houses from the wall.

They can't change proximity. One night they got him. They pulled him out away from where people could see and they lay him down and forced his mouth open and they poured alcohol in him, making him go hard, content in living your life in evil.

And then that man went back to drink. And one day, soon, driving a vehicle, went right off there, dead drunk, died in drink. The man who was responsible, his friend, his life childhood friend, the day after he died was killed by some accident.

Everyone knows it's an accident. He fell into a machine on the farm and his body went through that machine into 1 ,000 threads. He's a fool that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor sitteth in the, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, he'll never go near them.

Their delight, the scorn of their lights. But his delight, this man that God will bless, his delight is no longer in the wicked places, or being with wicked people, or scorning godly, no. His delight, if he's blessed, his delight is in the law of the Lord, is in the law of the Lord.

It's not one of his delights. This word means his only delight. God singles things out, you know. This word brings out something staggering. The only thing. The other things, if he has any delight in any, are so far away from the meaning of this, that they can't even be considered yet.

This is the singular throb of his life, if he's blessed by God daily. His delight is no longer in what sinners delight in, or going where sinners go. His delight is in the law of the Lord, God says, and in his law doth he meditate.

That means there's no hurry. It cancels out any possibility of, oh, out of conscience, let me give God five, ten minutes, you know, just so I can say I read my Bible. Suddenly God says, no, that doesn't cause you to be blessed.