Consider. If you reflect, you will say that God is able to give his church the largest blessing, and to give it at any time.

Keep silence and consider, and you will see that he can give the blessing by you or by me, he can make any one of us, weak as we are, mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.

[God] can make our feeble hands, though we have but a few leaves and fishes, capable of feeding myriads with the bread of life.

Consider this, and ask yourselves in the quiet of your spirits, what can we do to get the blessing? Are we doing that? What is there in our temper, in our private prayer, in our acts for God that would likely bring down the blessing?

Do we act as if we were sincere? Have a really a desire for these things, which we say we desire? Could we give up worldly engagements to attend to the work of God?

Could we spare time to look after the Lord’s vineyard? Are we willing to do the Lord’s work, and are we in the state of heart in which we can do it efficiently and acceptably?

[With] careful thought [let us] consider these things.

Charles Spurgeon

See also:

GOD IS NOT MUTE

TURNING LOVE BACKWARD TO SELF

RECEIVE JESUS AND BECOME A CHILD OF GOD