How to Be Ready

The way to find God, in the answer to prayer, in the supply of every need for spirit, soul and body, is to seek Him with all your heart. We may think that we have sought the Lord with all our heart and not found Him – but let us by no means deceive ourselves. The Scripture is true. It cannot be broken, “Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall search for Me with all your heart” (Jer. 29:13). Beware of a lukewarm, halfhearted condition! God gives victory (1 Cor. 15:57). Be an overcomer yourself – then preach to ­others the overcoming message in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Blow the trumpet in Zion. Awake God’s sleeping people on every hand. Tell them to be ready, for “the coming of the Lord draweth nigh” (Jas. 5:7-9). He will have a ready people, for we are told that when the Bridegroom came, “they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut” (Matt. 25:10). Will you be in that ready company? It requires taking heed to ourselves (Luke 21:34-35); it requires denying ourselves; it requires watching and praying always (Luke 21:36), that we may be accounted worthy to escape all the things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man.