One lesson I am
learning of late is our absolute dependence upon the power of God every time we
speak; it is not our liberty nor our words, but it is the power of God that
affects the souls to whom we speak (see 1 Cor. 12:6).

We are as
dependent upon God when we speak to one soul as when we preach to a thousand. I
have learned this by experience; I have gone to see a sick person in great
self-confidence and found I had nothing to say. And then the Lord taught me I
must wait upon Him for the message for a single soul as much as when I was
going to preach. May we ever remember this, that there may be no trace of
self-confidence remaining in the heart.