Daily Devotion: Open Your Mouth

Faith's Checkbook

"Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." Psalm 81:10

What an encouragement to pray! The Lord would have us request great blessings! When a man is earnest, he opens his mouth wide, and our test  urges us to be fervent in our supplications.
          Yet it also means that we may bold with God and ask large blessings at His hands. Read the whole verse, "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide and I will fill it." Because the Lord has given us so much, He invites us to ask for more.
          See how much the little birds in their nests seem to be all mouth when the mother comes to feed them. Let it be the same with us. God is ready to fill us if we are only ready to be filled. The opened mouth shall be filled by the Lord Himself. So be it unto us, Lord, today.

-C.H. Spurgeon