DEAR brethren, when you are all full of divine grace, you are filled for all the circumstances of life. If you go filled with God, you are provided for every emergency. Come calamity or prosperity, whatever shape temptation may assume, if the love of Christ has filled you with the fulness of God, you are ready for it. See how prepared you will be to meet your brethren and benefit them. Suppose you should make one in a little gathering of believers, and they should ask you to speak a word; if you are full, your speech will be worth hearing, but if you are empty, your communications will be empty also.
Sometimes when we preach we are conscious of unfitness for the work, because our soul is poverty-stricken. There can not be much in our mouths if there is little in our hearts. Out of an empty sack you can not shake a bushel of wheat, even if you shake it very hard. I have heard a brother pray a wearisome while, and I believe he was long because he had nothing to say. A horse can run many miles if he has nothing to carry. Long prayers often mean wind and emptiness. The Lord be with you and in you to the full.—Spurgeon.