You will never get anywhere with God unless you take definite steps. God was very definite in His dealings with Abraham. He brought him to a definite place, and Abraham marked the spot.

When the children of Israel crossed over Jordan, they marked the spot on the shore with twelve stones, and also placed twelve stones in the riverbed, which were later covered with water—a hidden place.

God wants us, as Christians, to take definite steps and to mark these steps. There are places in your heart over which the Jordan’s waters roll—hidden places which no one sees or of which no one knows the meaning, but He knows. When you have committed them unto Him that He might have His say, saying, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me” (Psalm 139:23–24 KJV), He knows and answers prayer.

Is this a crisis hour in your life? If it is, settle it now.

We must never go back on our transactions with God.

It remains to be seen what God can do with a man irrevocably given to Him. It is because we are but partially His that His work in us and for us is incomplete.

If you have given yourself to God, you have just to reckon that He takes what you give. A time comes when you have to cease praying and believe.

Some Christians say, “O Lord, come and fill me.” They keep on praying, and He says, “Believe I have come; reckon that I am come; if you reckon, I will come.”

A friend said, “If God tells me to reckon, He pledges Himself to make the reckoning good.” As we go on reckoning, we will go on realizing. No man makes a mistake who does what the Lord bids him do. THOMAS COOK

Reckon some special time when you fully surrendered your life to the Lord. Build a pile of stones there to mark the spot, and then build another on the life side— the resurrection side! Do this today! Build a heap of stones to mark the time, and never fight the old battle again. We should not be dying and rising, and dying and rising again; we should build our memorials of stones once for all, and then ever date from that time!

I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

It came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones . . . and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Witnesses chosen before of God, . . . who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.