tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13708340394505678562024-03-05T01:02:30.224-06:00Witness And TestimonyWitness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.comBlogger817125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-67786201147794437352024-01-04T11:25:00.000-06:002024-01-04T11:25:40.097-06:00 Abundantly Able<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQJVeDJVjl6w0-OT_-YEz6swi2S8vuiCZ51MjP5Q4OYdWJnwj9j9zmHc76NuyyXrpyOdwUloAPqhWstBxZOH5fJrbJQkinaInmlsWIpNmXoEi5OYFP4PrWR2Dw-FBDqTIzGPFlNtlvfRGinFw1KZqrwwSHr7UOze_uY5z9xVoiqS_FubvgUeSAEVLUrc/s247/ABUNDANTLY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="247" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQJVeDJVjl6w0-OT_-YEz6swi2S8vuiCZ51MjP5Q4OYdWJnwj9j9zmHc76NuyyXrpyOdwUloAPqhWstBxZOH5fJrbJQkinaInmlsWIpNmXoEi5OYFP4PrWR2Dw-FBDqTIzGPFlNtlvfRGinFw1KZqrwwSHr7UOze_uY5z9xVoiqS_FubvgUeSAEVLUrc/w483-h338/ABUNDANTLY.jpg" width="483" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rom 4:21 And being Fully Persuaded that, what he had Promised, he was Able also to Perform.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We are told that Abraham could look at his own body and consider it as good as dead Without Being Discouraged, because he was not looking at himself but at the Almighty One.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>He did not stagger at the promise, but Stood Straight Up Unbending beneath his mighty load of blessing; </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And instead of growing weak he waxed Strong in the Faith, grew more robust, the more difficulties became apparent, glorifying God through His very sufficiency.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>And being "Fully Persuaded" (as the Greek expresses it) "that he who had promised was," not merely able, but as it literally means "Abundantly Able," Munificently Able, Able with an Infinite Surplus Of Resources, Infinitely Able "To Perform."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He is the GOD Of Boundless Resources. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Only Limit Is In Us. </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Our asking, our thinking, our praying are Too Small; our Expectations are Too Limited. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He is trying to Lift Us Up to a Higher Conception, and lure us on to a Mightier Expectation and Appropriation. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oh, shall we put Him in derision? </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There is No Limit to what we may Ask and Expect of our glorious El-Shaddai; </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And there is but One measure here given for His blessing, and that is According to the Power That Worketh In Us.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A. B. Simpson<br /> <br />Climb to the treasure house of blessing on the ladder made of Divine Promises. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">By a promise as by a Key to Open the Door to the Riches of God's Grace and Favor.</span></b></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-26072867052027857122023-12-05T13:45:00.000-06:002023-12-05T13:45:59.704-06:00The Evil Of Fear!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsdzf63m-LoOnfuprgx0DGlvCewetteP3Hb7ncsmRZw4QpPlDqiibqrYM0M9fTzeMEKsvYdLkOD7UTa3vBi8FAR-NNqslZh-ukklWR93sPKMOGQnyLm5IOT4VEgTprhvh0Ss07lF4vrisrBlb6hT8MQTzRA6szNO25tF30BmvRuUVlcN-i6D0OA1imNg/s544/SPIRIT%20OF%20FEAR%20A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="544" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpsdzf63m-LoOnfuprgx0DGlvCewetteP3Hb7ncsmRZw4QpPlDqiibqrYM0M9fTzeMEKsvYdLkOD7UTa3vBi8FAR-NNqslZh-ukklWR93sPKMOGQnyLm5IOT4VEgTprhvh0Ss07lF4vrisrBlb6hT8MQTzRA6szNO25tF30BmvRuUVlcN-i6D0OA1imNg/w528-h306/SPIRIT%20OF%20FEAR%20A.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Not many of us need to be informed that one of Satan's most successful and powerful weapons against the children of God is fear. </span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He drives, he harasses, he torments, he worries; yes, he does many things for the undoing of God's people by means of this weapon of fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How many of the Lord's people are found in a state of weakness, impotence, and paralysis, because of fear! </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">They are afraid, they fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How many are found in a state of indecision, incapable of taking any definite, deliberate, strong step, because of fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">They are all the time moving so cautiously, so uncertainly, because they are afraid, because of fear, and multitudes of the Lord's people are in a state of positive spiritual defeat because of fear working in some way - foreboding, dread, apprehension. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fear, John rightly says, has torment, and it is possible to get into such a state that you are almost afraid to leave your home for half an hour lest you might come back and find that something has gone wrong, to take a journey without all the time wanting to keep in touch with things. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You are afraid. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a terrible thing, this fear, and in countless ways the enemy lashes the children of God by this rod, this whip, of fear.<br /><br />The Word of God is very strong about this matter. "God has not given us a spirit of fear", and let us once and for all get this kind of fear defined and disentangled from the other fear of which we have to speak, the right kind of fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I think that failure to discriminate in this matter is perhaps at the root of a very great deal of the defeat. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We, somewhere in the back of our minds, in an undefined way, have got muddled up and confused. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fear - yes, but we are commanded to fear, the fear of the Lord. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We must fear lest we make mistakes, lest we go wrong, lest we grieve the Lord; we must fear this and that. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, but let us drive the wedge clean in between the devil's fear and the fear of the Lord! </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">They are two different things, and let us settle it once and for all that this kind of harassing, driving fear comes straight from the pit; it is born in hell, a weapon forged there by the devil himself against the children of God. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Let it be settled in your heart forever that this kind of fear is Not from God. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">This fear Is from Satan. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, I do feel that it is so important that the people of God should nail this matter of fear. When you find yourself in this state because of fear, you say, "This is not from God!" </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fear is a master weapon of Satan, and you have got to free yourself in the Name of the Lord from his awful drive by this means.<br /><br />What is he after? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is always good to ask ourselves what is the effect of a thing in our lives. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I can very well discover where it comes from if I recognize what the effect is. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">If a thing paralyzes me, if it takes all certainty and confidence and assurance out of my heart, if it takes the steady firmness out of my walk, my tread, if it holds me up in weakness and paralyzes so that I am afraid to move, then that is not of God. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">God wants His people to go forward with assurance and confidence, with a firm and steady tread, not to have in their hearts everlastingly a paralyzing doubt. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">So what is the effect? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Recognize that and you know where it comes from.<br /><br />What is Satan after? You say, to paralyze me, to destroy me, to hold up. Oh yes, but that is only secondary! </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He is after dishonouring God, and God is dishonored in His people. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It has ever been that Satan has aimed at the work of God's hands, aimed his blow to dishonor God, and God is dishonored when His people are, in the wrong sense, fearful. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What is fear, after all? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, it is mistrust, it is lack of faith. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">John says that it is the opposite of love. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There is no fear in love. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Perfect love casts out all fear, and he that fears is not made perfect in love. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fear is the opposite of love, and what is love if it is not trust? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">None of us would agree that we were loved if we were not trusted. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We demand absolute confidence as the hallmark of professed love. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is only feigned love which has reservations about an object which it professes to love. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is mere empty sentiment and pretense which says, "I love you but I am not sure of you". </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh no! That is the only kind of love that we really, in our hearts, can accept and believe in. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A lot of people tell me they love me, but I know all the time they have got big questions about me and they are suspicious. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I say that kind of love is not much good, it does not help me very much. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It does not get us anywhere just to keep that shadow all the time in between. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">But carry that into the divine realm. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Can that be tolerated in relation to God? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I love God, but I do not trust Him, I am not sure of Him. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I am afraid to go out tomorrow lest something should go wrong, lest the Lord should let me down. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You see, it is very practical. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Perfect love casts out all fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is by this fear and fearfulness that Satan is seeking to dishonor God in us by keeping us in a state of uncertainty about God, a reservation of confidence and trust. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Fear is the opposite of trust. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">If we trust, we are not afraid. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is put quite simply: "I will trust and not be afraid" (Is. 12:2). </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Isa 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. <br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">These two things cannot live together - trust and fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1<br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, the gain to the enemy against the Lord along the line of fear!
<br /><br />But, of course, this is a very real thing, this fear, and although the Word of God may not use the phrase, we have reason to believe that amongst the hosts of evil spirits, there are definitely the spirits of fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For very often this thing is something extra to ourselves; it comes upon us. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It is something that happens to us at times. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We find ourselves afraid. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The enemy wants to make us afraid and his spirits of fear are sent forth to do that. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There needs to be a very definite and strong attitude taken in spirit before the Lord to resist the devil in this form. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">When we say the devil, we mean all his hosts as well; however he may come - to resist fear. It is a resolution - "I WILL trust, and not be afraid - for the Lord...".<br /><br />Well, that is all I am going to say for the moment about the evil of fear. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I want you to take that word and keep it in your heart; dwell much upon it, because I am convinced that the enemy is pressing very much along this line. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you notice what Nehemiah said? Oh, it was a significant thing! </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Nehemiah said something more than he knew he was saying, I am quite sure of that! </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He said a thing which embraces a great deal of the New Testament. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">He said, "For this purpose were they hired that they might make me afraid, and do so, and sin". </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, but that is only half. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And then what? "That they might have an evil report, a case, against me". </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What the enemy is after all the time is, first of all, to make afraid, and then to get us to take some step, to do something out of fear, and then to come right round on us and accuse us before God. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">How cruel, how subtle, how wicked! - but that is of no consequence to him. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What he is after is to cast the saints down by accusation, and if he can only get them either to do or to refrain from doing through fear, he has got a case, and it will not be long before he comes back on that very ground and makes accusation, condemnation, and distress.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">T. Austin Sparks </span></b><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-45829892349297729942023-11-22T17:37:00.002-06:002023-11-22T22:15:08.090-06:00A Soothing Seduction!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLyv-v25Ph37l2DcdK5fw7OYQYB9fRbp77FzDocLj6tqEh-8wQUtLizYKkxL07kwkApF9sqg40D9i2T8N9igIvvbEmgr-UkGsxoqWTgZE9J3xDn3RYpnu3qT5fxjcxu2E3FajszsOzvKy5EKKFSnIWphgLhUA70rI4MKQS62B374SXrYic4QEOIZdy4Q/s400/0000000000000000000000000000.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="400" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLyv-v25Ph37l2DcdK5fw7OYQYB9fRbp77FzDocLj6tqEh-8wQUtLizYKkxL07kwkApF9sqg40D9i2T8N9igIvvbEmgr-UkGsxoqWTgZE9J3xDn3RYpnu3qT5fxjcxu2E3FajszsOzvKy5EKKFSnIWphgLhUA70rI4MKQS62B374SXrYic4QEOIZdy4Q/w453-h270/0000000000000000000000000000.jpg" width="453" /></a></div> <br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me show you what happens to every child of God who enters into a relationship with a bitter, unrighteous, rebellious person. </span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There are awful consequences.<br /><br />The fear of the Lord fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 17:10. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Jehoshaphat’s kingdom, Judah, was blessed and prospered abundantly, and nobody dared come against them.<br /><br />But after Jehoshaphat entered into a relationship with Ahab, Scripture says, "Ahab persuaded Jehoshaphat to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead. And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war" 2 Chronicles 18:2-3. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Jehoshaphat willingly got sucked into a hopeless war, one that God had no part in.<br /><br />The Hebrew word for persuaded in this passage means "a soothing seduction."Jehoshaphat allowed himself to be seduced into war by Ahab, answering, "I am as you are." </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">In other words, I'm your friend, so I'm with you all the way. I won't let you down. You can count on me!<br /><br />Is your close friend full of bitterness, hatred, anger and pursuing a war of some kind? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Is he involved in a marriage war, a family war, a personal war? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And are you like a Jehoshaphat to him, offering help and encouragement? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">If so, look out, because you are about to be seduced into it all.<br /><br />That's right, very soon you will find yourself smack in the middle of your friend's mess and you will be asked to take a stand. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">If your friend is in a troubled marriage, for example, you are going to be forced to take a side. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And you will end up sympathizing with him...all the way through his divorce!<br /><br />Beware, Christian, because whenever you extend comfort or encouragement to someone who is in rebellion, you take sides against the Holy Spirit. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And that makes you a partaker in that person's sin. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Tragically, when Jehoshaphat joined Ahab's war, he only hastened his friend along the path of destruction!<br /><br />~David Wilkerson~ </span></b><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-3729271936984591592023-10-06T18:59:00.000-05:002023-10-06T18:59:11.539-05:00Don't Rush!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLz58GJg3qDXIS3mR5qIHSkYgsBg0qquQwBRzhG4E7XCnwgfRz5NVGMQlKqDfUYdueC1JB0XM6Kpp6HuAY6Wfopj8bY-kyJxJO6lpCkmLjklE6iCM_QqpWEPQzYC7e5OrD6sMUmHqOpFGTXW26c4N5FC6ytGDpmcUXQ_kgDPiG5xBOmt79MBE3bMYAV0E/s310/walking%20in%20the%20darkness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLz58GJg3qDXIS3mR5qIHSkYgsBg0qquQwBRzhG4E7XCnwgfRz5NVGMQlKqDfUYdueC1JB0XM6Kpp6HuAY6Wfopj8bY-kyJxJO6lpCkmLjklE6iCM_QqpWEPQzYC7e5OrD6sMUmHqOpFGTXW26c4N5FC6ytGDpmcUXQ_kgDPiG5xBOmt79MBE3bMYAV0E/w505-h236/walking%20in%20the%20darkness.jpg" width="505" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Isa 50:10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What shall
the believer do in times of darkness-the darkness of perplexity and
confusion, not of heart but of mind? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Times of darkness come to the
faithful and believing disciple who is walking obediently in the will of
God; seasons when he does not know what to do, nor which way to turn. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The sky is overcast with clouds. The clear light of Heaven does not
shine upon his pathway. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One feels as if he were groping his way in
darkness.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Beloved, is this you? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What shall the
believer do in times of darkness? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Listen! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Let him trust in the name of
the Lord, and rely upon his God."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The first thing to
do is do nothing. This is hard for poor human nature to do.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In the West
there is a saying that runs thus, "When you're rattled, don't rush"; in
other words, "When you don't know what to do, don't do it."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>When
you run into a spiritual fog bank, don't tear ahead; slow down the
machinery of your life. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If necessary, anchor your bark or let it swing
at its moorings. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We are to simply trust God. While we trust, God can
work. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Worry prevents Him from doing anything for us. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If our minds. are
distracted and our hearts distressed; if the darkness that overshadows
us strikes terror to us; if we run hither and yon in a vain effort to
find some way of escape out of a dark place of trial, where Divine
providence has put us, the Lord can do nothing for us.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The
peace of God must quiet our minds and rest our hearts. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>We must put our
hand in the hand of God like a little child, and let Him lead us out
into the bright sunshine of His love.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>He knows the
way out of the woods. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Let us climb up into His arms, and trust Him to
take us out by the shortest and surest road.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>~Dr. Pardington</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Remember we are never without a pilot when we know not how to steer!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hold on, my heart, in thy believing-The steadfast only wins the crown...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>He who, when stormy winds are heaving, Parts with its anchor, shall go down...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>But he who Jesus holds through all, Shall stand, though Heaven and earth should fall.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hold out! There comes an end to sorrow; Hope from the dust shall conquering rise...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The storm foretells a summer's morrow; The Cross points on to Paradise...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Father reigneth! cease all doubt...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hold on, my heart, hold on, hold out.</b></span></p><p><b></b></p><b><a href="http://devotionals.ochristian.com/Mrs.-Charles-Cowman-Devotional.-Streams-in-the-Desert/1005.shtml"></a></b>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-74017895699785859532023-09-08T17:33:00.002-05:002023-09-09T10:01:40.218-05:00Let Nothing Be Done Through Strife Or Vainglory!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxhZIzwV7QcvQBuLIMxv7pf6IJfIvTOh4K9Am-3ApVVGNBRZGqbe2tFaZCtHgcKCz_R2y-_-jkxutq-E5lEROUouCQEXwe6kGTCFbbve-fUnzebpJSY-f7jBPKq-DDYiEUUSrSjF8JRaEHaUcoV3KGNDXL-3Tr3T9eXR-nd7-OrD46CxE2097o3Q5ENE/s1376/philippians-2-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1376" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTxhZIzwV7QcvQBuLIMxv7pf6IJfIvTOh4K9Am-3ApVVGNBRZGqbe2tFaZCtHgcKCz_R2y-_-jkxutq-E5lEROUouCQEXwe6kGTCFbbve-fUnzebpJSY-f7jBPKq-DDYiEUUSrSjF8JRaEHaUcoV3KGNDXL-3Tr3T9eXR-nd7-OrD46CxE2097o3Q5ENE/w505-h228/philippians-2-3.jpg" width="505" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">What do we Expect when we go on with God, when we come right out for God? <br /><br />What have we in view? <br /><br />Well, the answer to that question will decide whether, in relation to God, we have Ambitions for Something on the earth. <br /><br />Do you Get the point? <br /><br />You see, it is so possible to swing over your natural ambitions to spiritual aims. <br /><br />It is the same thing still at work, and the only difference is the direction or sphere. <br /><br />You can be as Ambitious in the work of God as you can be in the world, and it is the Same Natural Ambition. <br /><br />It is the Ambitiousness of Nature. <br /><br />You desire – What do you desire? <br /><br />To See something, to Have something, to Be in something? <br /><br />Ambition for success; yes, once it was in the world – now the Same Ambition transferred to other things....<br /><br />It is a Mark of going on when we can Come To The Place where it is True before God that we have Let Go all the prosperity and success even of Christian work and Christian ministry as men would count it. <br /><br />To be able to Let Go the great opportunities and the great advantages that may be had amongst Christian people, and the prizes that can be grasped, and to say, “It is all right, the Lord knows; it is for Him to give or withhold. <br /><br />I am NOT going to make a line for those prizes. <br /><br />I am NOT going to ALLOW those things to INFLUENCE my walk with God. <br /><br />Ambition is NOT Going to DICTATE my course, This is a SURE Sign of Growth. <br /><br />It may not seem here on earth to mean very big things; wide open doors and all that...<br /><br />But somehow you may take it that there is Life there, Spiritual Influence there, Something that is Counting there. <br /><br />In the end It Will Have Counted. <br /><br />But this does sometimes first of all Necessitate that Conflict with Ambition where all those suggestions and influences have to be laid low...<br /><br />And we come to the place where we see that the Way Of Life is to go on with God Though It Costs Us Everything. <br /><br />The law of the Spirit of Life works in that way.... <br /><br />The way of Life demands that we shall get before the Lord again, and say, “Lord, though all my earthly prospects fade, though all my ambitions are disappointed, it is YOU I Want. <br /><br />YOU Are My Ambition, My Goal. <br /><br />If I have YOU, these other things will count for much less.<br /><br />I believe that, As We Can Get There and not many of us have got a long way on that road ...<br /><br />But As We Can Get There, We Find the Secret of Life, of Joy, of Release.<br /><br />~T. Austin Sparks </span></b></span><br />Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-29975535066498108102023-03-10T13:01:00.000-06:002023-03-10T13:01:16.256-06:00Help From Unexpected Sources Ought To Dispel Despair <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBxg3JLYb3UH2qitLG8IO9WdI3lxRWagDdRC84F6GsPSUTof9ot9z9Si4BAXuyzIgW7S02xMfrWsITI_QaGgOvPjx38GEVXankNpDxRtWT15hkFxRsPgjJWK68Rsep8lWRBz3N6GT6bJE9wkruwEEKLrONrWZIG9tYMDnGIJjPHCCBJ6OTlL8m-Ei/s480/GOOD%20SAMARITAN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjBxg3JLYb3UH2qitLG8IO9WdI3lxRWagDdRC84F6GsPSUTof9ot9z9Si4BAXuyzIgW7S02xMfrWsITI_QaGgOvPjx38GEVXankNpDxRtWT15hkFxRsPgjJWK68Rsep8lWRBz3N6GT6bJE9wkruwEEKLrONrWZIG9tYMDnGIJjPHCCBJ6OTlL8m-Ei/w529-h364/GOOD%20SAMARITAN.jpg" width="529" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Luke 10:33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, <br /> <br />This fact of life on which I have been dwelling ought always to help to keep us from despairing. <br /><br />How readily we say, when people disappoint us, "there is no eye to pity and no arm to save." <br /><br />I think this wounded traveler said that when priest and Levite passed him by. <br /><br />He despaired; there was no help for him; there was no eye to pity and no arm to save. <br /><br />And just then the Samaritan appeared--the unlikeliest person in the world--and comfort was far nearer than he knew. <br /><br />Do I speak to any whose hearts are very sore in the bitterness of disappointment? <br /><br />To any who have hoped for help from certain people and, like this wounded traveler, never got it?<br /><br />My dear reader, courage! </b></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">The oil and wine are nearer than you think, for, and very probably, they are going to come to you from someone of whom you would never dream.</span><br /></b><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-12855970297375804682023-02-19T19:55:00.000-06:002023-02-19T19:55:26.798-06:00But GOD Meant It For Good!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhXL4KZGWwg4wJA0mOZj0F4_H--w79nh_RuXBEKqSiHQ8SFZTbIjIvcOyQY-v_mNjg6lGTafJ8GkjoqvC_-PLWyQxQuV9j-kkl4oL9o2AxWOmmGwSg59DL6g_uKzlpv43gTedVNhjsWM3C7VHsk_Caeq0ZMHb9y7LCCnele1Wp1qWeYtlisBoMRiY/s300/GOD%20MEANT%20IT%20FOR%20GOOD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvhXL4KZGWwg4wJA0mOZj0F4_H--w79nh_RuXBEKqSiHQ8SFZTbIjIvcOyQY-v_mNjg6lGTafJ8GkjoqvC_-PLWyQxQuV9j-kkl4oL9o2AxWOmmGwSg59DL6g_uKzlpv43gTedVNhjsWM3C7VHsk_Caeq0ZMHb9y7LCCnele1Wp1qWeYtlisBoMRiY/w466-h248/GOD%20MEANT%20IT%20FOR%20GOOD.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><i>Gen 50:20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. <br /></i></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>God's
deeper meanings - We are apt to see a malicious meaning; are we equally
apt to detect the Divine and benevolent one? </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Our enemies are many, and
they hate us with perfect hatred; they are ever laying their plots, and
working their unholy purposes. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>BUT there is a greater and wiser than
they, who, through all these plottings, is prosecuting His Divine
purpose. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>There is Another and Deeper meaning than appears to the short
sight of sense.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Let us believe that there is a Divine
and deeper meaning in the adversities of our lives.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Joseph might be
forgiven for not doing so; but with his history and that of many others
before us, we have no excuse for despair in the face of crushing sorrow. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Whether it comes from man or devil, all creatures are under the Divine
control, holding to our lips cups which the Father's hand has mixed. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>He
has no complicity with their evil, but they unconsciously perform His
will. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Even if you cannot see the Divine meaning, Dare To Believe that it
is there.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Await the disclosures of time.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Even here
we sometimes reach an height from which we detect the meaning of the
path by which we have been conducted. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>It may have been rough and winding, but there was reason in it all. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Often God rewards patient
trust by allowing us to see and know.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>And for the
full revelation of eternity.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>One day God will call us to His side in
the clear light of eternity...</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>And will explain His meanings in life's
most sorrowful experiences...</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>And we shall learn that we suffered, not for
ourselves only, but for others...</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>And, as part of His great remedial
scheme, "to save much people alive."</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>~F. B. Meyer </b></span><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-3411334411134303392023-02-06T08:13:00.002-06:002023-02-06T08:22:43.041-06:00Rejoicing In Darkness<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FuDNJb7H7NiZokBJuRb88Wkjr-L6h6NRVzdbLGLoumOxYdOaTsGoPUDq0-EGzxHOth7lS5SnvYPZT1ejMwWOhDghDQIRCzU0AZ7-DBgfRaQB8qFbS993O37cUHcjNMyWuHwigDWLM6Mw5Z8McQKYnXiOPVNJX-kvIN_KRrGNgyv7yOIPQc7bOapF/s200/ANIMATED%20RED%20SEA2.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FuDNJb7H7NiZokBJuRb88Wkjr-L6h6NRVzdbLGLoumOxYdOaTsGoPUDq0-EGzxHOth7lS5SnvYPZT1ejMwWOhDghDQIRCzU0AZ7-DBgfRaQB8qFbS993O37cUHcjNMyWuHwigDWLM6Mw5Z8McQKYnXiOPVNJX-kvIN_KRrGNgyv7yOIPQc7bOapF/w459-h321/ANIMATED%20RED%20SEA2.gif" width="459" /></a></span></div><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /><span>Psa 66:6 He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him. <br /><br />It is a striking statement, "through the floods" (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay) "there," says the Psalmist, "did we rejoice in him!"<br /><br />How many there are who can endorse this as their experience:<br /><br />That "there," in their very seasons of distress and sadness, they have been enabled, as they never did before, to triumph and rejoice.<br /><br />How near their God in covenant is brought! <br /><br />How brightly shine His promises! <br /><br />In the day of our prosperity we cannot see the brilliancy of these. <br /><br />Like the sun at noon, hiding out the stars from sight, they are indiscernible; <br /><br />But when night overtakes, the deep, dark night of sorrow, out come these clustering stars-blessed constellations of Bible hope and promise of consolation.<br /><br />Like Jacob at Jabbok, it is when our earthly sun goes down that the Divine Angel comes forth, and we wrestle with Him and prevail. <br /><br />It was at night, "in the evening," Aaron lit the sanctuary lamps. <br /><br />It is in the night of trouble the brightest lamps of the believer are often kindled.<br /><br />It was in his loneliness and exile John had the glorious vision of his Redeemer. <br /><br />There is many a Patmos still in the world, whose brightest remembrances are those of God's presence and upholding grace and love in solitude and sadness.<br /><br />How many pilgrims, still passing through these Red Seas and Jordans of earthly affliction, will be enabled in the retrospect of eternity to say with full memories of God's great goodness...<br /><br />We went through the flood on foot, there-there, in these dark experiences, with the surging waves on every side, deep calling to deep...<br /><br />Jordan, as when Israel crossed it, in 'the time of the overflowing' (flood), yet, 'there did we rejoice in Him!<br /><br />~Dr. Macduff<br /><br />Hos 2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. </span></span></b></span><br /><p></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-2495517371429965572022-12-15T17:38:00.001-06:002022-12-15T17:38:32.525-06:00 Forewarned, Forearmed~Satan Shams Defeat<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic72fcZYNNpiMpBRj5RG0smRepn_ZYDKl4v5bxUGIYGz0GOa_ZSXyUDQX-s10vBco2HdgAic-e2qlTCmW6A2gkhTJIXs9eo_SLUafvi2pzFcdi4GfvfcVjoRr9d0IkSaMJRd0vToZ_H_KHiHfMc2Roy2VdxRH17UChXWXxDYh4pQtwcE99PJ_st4_l/s480/LEST%20SATAN%20SHOULD%20TAKE%20ADVANTAGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic72fcZYNNpiMpBRj5RG0smRepn_ZYDKl4v5bxUGIYGz0GOa_ZSXyUDQX-s10vBco2HdgAic-e2qlTCmW6A2gkhTJIXs9eo_SLUafvi2pzFcdi4GfvfcVjoRr9d0IkSaMJRd0vToZ_H_KHiHfMc2Roy2VdxRH17UChXWXxDYh4pQtwcE99PJ_st4_l/w496-h309/LEST%20SATAN%20SHOULD%20TAKE%20ADVANTAGE.jpg" width="496" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /> <span style="color: #6aa84f;">To sham defeat is a
well-known trick in warfare. </span></span></b><p></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing will sooner disorganize a regiment
than to see the enemy routed on the field. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">While the fight rages, a man
is nerved and strung for he is carrying his life in his hand and knows
it. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But with the victory there comes reaction, and men grow careless;...</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And there are battles where the enemy has shammed defeat just to inspire
that careless spirit. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">O sirs, we are not ignorant of his devices!</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This
old device of sham defeat- have you not seen it?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">You fought like a man
with your besetting sin and mastered it. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">God keep you watchful.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">God keep
you on your guard. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">One careless hour and the routed sin is at the gates
again, and the whole battle has to be fought anew. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We thought the sin
was dead, and it was only sleeping. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We thought that we had slain that
habit, and it is stealing over us again. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">We thought we had defeated
Satan, and Satan only shammed defeat. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Keep the loins girded and the
lamps burning and the hand upon the sword until the end. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Our unseen foe
is a consummate strategist. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Many a soul has been lost because it won
-won in the first encounter, then said all's well and laid its arms
aside...</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Till the old sin crept up again and sprang and the last state was
worse than the first.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">~George H. Morrison </span></b></span><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-47392878031729753592022-11-01T08:13:00.003-05:002022-11-01T08:34:43.614-05:00Forewarned, Forearmed~Satan Labels Evil Things With Pleasant Names!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN28hqteG4w_MlcNhGjl_3DSXZDuy9wbXxUqnFomkk7ho-oNKEMTUxAYuLa58x9PrrLoHLSkS0yDlE76XO5XiU-zsmYltSYaWdoqgcGff8zY5s62mV4tlxTftNGFM02Mf85e4LSRS1d0WAL0kdcgxAcahGkW_x81dvILAi0DFwAAEKbOmobIKOLXiX/s480/warning%20don't%20be%20ignorant%20of%20satan's%20devices.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="480" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN28hqteG4w_MlcNhGjl_3DSXZDuy9wbXxUqnFomkk7ho-oNKEMTUxAYuLa58x9PrrLoHLSkS0yDlE76XO5XiU-zsmYltSYaWdoqgcGff8zY5s62mV4tlxTftNGFM02Mf85e4LSRS1d0WAL0kdcgxAcahGkW_x81dvILAi0DFwAAEKbOmobIKOLXiX/w495-h264/warning%20don't%20be%20ignorant%20of%20satan's%20devices.jpg" width="495" /></a></div><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Satan Labels Evil Things With Pleasant Names! <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There
is a tendency in all language to do that...</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Whether it springs from a
very natural desire to hide the uglier sides of human life or whether it
is the survival of some old pagan feeling that tried to propitiate the
gods of nature by fair words, we cannot tell. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But every language has
been rich in what grammarians call euphemisms-those nice and delicate
words that cover some offensive truth. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">When Prince George of Greece went
over to Crete to become governor, there had been fierce rioting and
bloodshed between the Muslims and Christians. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And when he arrived and
was received with great enthusiasm, the correspondent of the Times gave a
very curious description of the scene.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">The long rows of ruined houses,
beneath which in some cases, the fire is still smoldering, he wrote, are almost concealed by festoons and banners.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It was an attempt to
decorate and hide the tragedies. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And language is always doing that. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No
man has ever loved to call the seamier side of things by its right name
or to look the darker facts of life straight in the face. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">And from the
first, language has been busy in fashioning its own festoons and banners
to hide these ugly things. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">It is this tendency of human speech that is
caught up and wrested by the devil into an engine and instrument of ill.
If, in the natural shuddering at death, I shrink from saying, "My
mother is dead," and say instead, "She is gone," there is no harm in
that. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">But if by any trick of speech I veil the filthiness of sin, or if I
cannot see how odious evil is because I have dubbed it with some
pleasant name, I have been ignorant of his devices.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who called the world
of self and pleasure the happy world? </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who named the business man whose
transactions border on the shady the smart man? </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who said that the
adulterer who is breaking his wife's heart had his little weakness? </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who
smiled and said the reckless was only fast?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Or called the sowing of a
harvest of misery for children's children the sowing of wild oats?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Cease that speech! </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Call vile things by their vile names, and be not
ignorant of his devices.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #e69138;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">~George H. Morrison </span></b></span><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-82906027792564034912022-10-26T13:16:00.003-05:002022-10-26T13:54:50.781-05:00Forewarned, Forearmed-Satan Lays The Emphasis Upon Tomorrow<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1AFWpCIaSwt5CUfKmouUN2pUYjhHAXXKSRqUYwGUqUFi7JpHK777wOrPClRokmwLtb7FL-S4Fas5CN_dgM8VajVrxKa3q_JAmBbmht0GG7PZEie38mkv4xyfyUztgvpcQruYom_lRvU8MJTs_XoE8UHn66UptBYKmYZUGxRk9wLTtnAGX_Hn-xIR/s223/satan%20whispering%20in%20your%20ear-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="223" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl1AFWpCIaSwt5CUfKmouUN2pUYjhHAXXKSRqUYwGUqUFi7JpHK777wOrPClRokmwLtb7FL-S4Fas5CN_dgM8VajVrxKa3q_JAmBbmht0GG7PZEie38mkv4xyfyUztgvpcQruYom_lRvU8MJTs_XoE8UHn66UptBYKmYZUGxRk9wLTtnAGX_Hn-xIR/w489-h257/satan%20whispering%20in%20your%20ear-001.jpg" width="489" /></a></div><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. <br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">We are Always Prone to put the accent there.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">It is very hard to grasp the True splendor of the present.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Today seems insignificant; tomorrow shall be the real day for us....<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">God Never speaks that way. </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />God's Bible Never speaks that way. </span><br /><br />It tells us that the Present is divine, and lays the whole emphasis upon today: "NOW is the Accepted Time." <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">And the Holy Ghost is saying, Today. </span><br /><br />And this is the Arch-Device of the Arch-Tempter...<br /><br />In every life, for every start and every noble deed, God says, Today. <br /><br />In every life for every start and every noble deed, the devil says, Tomorrow. <br /><br />Is it conversion? Today, says God: Tomorrow, whispers Satan. <br /><br />Is it the breaking with that sin? Tomorrow. <br /><br />Is it the starting on a higher level? Tomorrow. <br /><br />Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow! <br /><br />Till by tomorrow's road we are at Never-and the chance is gone, and the dream has vanished, and the hope is dead. <br /><br />O friends, young men and women, be not ignorant of that device. <br /><br />It will never be easier to come to Christ than now. <br /><br />It will never be easier to make the start than now. <br /><br />God says, Today, Tonight! <br /><br />And God who says it is here to give the power that can save Now, and can cleanse Now, and can send you home Now with old things passed away and all things New in Jesus Christ.<br /><br />~George H. Morrison<br /><br /></span></b></p><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td height="5"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-91089841022420188072022-10-23T10:32:00.004-05:002022-10-26T13:54:28.243-05:00Forewarned, Forearmed-Satan Uses Tools!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOoshjfshcI8zC6zols09HOMVAB6cgBcFnGQm6jjQE865H14ki0_CBuMypZIqpNIby9LXCODNTCpzQDo8sFZr1qog0HBBCupF7UNW_zDtroQUfn8Krs2oCtrbVmeT9ZX8JEjTfBecMb9JD-ZFAHIBt2yn9cFxcVzGKe1YbGR_5B8I7CRTtnCTU_FR/s735/SATAN'S%20WHISPER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOoshjfshcI8zC6zols09HOMVAB6cgBcFnGQm6jjQE865H14ki0_CBuMypZIqpNIby9LXCODNTCpzQDo8sFZr1qog0HBBCupF7UNW_zDtroQUfn8Krs2oCtrbVmeT9ZX8JEjTfBecMb9JD-ZFAHIBt2yn9cFxcVzGKe1YbGR_5B8I7CRTtnCTU_FR/w493-h320/SATAN'S%20WHISPER.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. <br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">It is one mark of practical genius to choose the right instruments to do its work.<br /><br />A born administrator is a man who not only works hard himself, but has the skill of choosing the right men to be his assistants. <br /><br />That is always a mark of practical capacity. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">And a true general shows his genius to command by the way in which he uses each branch of the service-cavalry, artillery, and infantry- for its proper work. <br /><br />Every administrator must make use of agents; and he displays the greatest genius for administration who picks his agents with the greatest skill.<br /><br />What a magnificent administrative genius that power must be that plots our ruin if we judge it by a test like that. <br /><br />Could you conceive a finer choice of instruments than Satan makes when he is seeking to overthrow a human soul? <br /><br />Out of a hundred gates into your hearts and mine, he passes by those that are barred and chooses one that will open at a touch. <br /><br />His is the plan and his the whole device...</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">But he gets other hands and other hearts to do the work...</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">And the whole history of the tempted world, and the whole story of your tempted heart, tells the skillful genius of the choice.<br /><br />Think of our Lord's experience...</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">First, in the wilderness Satan tempted Him. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">He came himself that time: he sent no messenger and used no agent. <br /><br />It was a personal conflict between the Prince of Darkness and the Prince of Life. <br /><br />But the next time the baffled tempter fell back upon this old device. <br /><br />Next time he does not come in person: he comes in Simon Peter. <br /><br />What, was it not a master-stroke of genius to reach at the heart of Jesus through the loyal heart of that disciple? <br /><br />And when Jesus turns and detects Satan's voice in Peter's tongue and cries, "Get thee behind me, Satan, thou savourest not the things of God," He was not ignorant of his devices.<br /><br />And do you think that device is disused today? <br /><br />Has Satan's brain grown blunted in these latter times? <br /><br />It is not the men who hate us and it is not the men and women we strongly dislike who tempt us most. <br /><br />It is those we trust and those who love us best who often prove hell's aptest messengers. <br /><br />If we but hated those who tempt us, life would become a very easy thing. <br /><br />It is because we love and respect them so that for a thousand men and women life is hard. <br /><br />Come, tempter, in thine own cursed shape, and any coward shall beat thee off. <br /><br />But come through the loving heart of Simon Peter, and look through the loving eyes of Simon Peter, and speak through the loving lips of Simon Peter-and only Christ can make us strong to say, "Get thee behind me, Satan."<br /><br />~George H. Morrison </span><br /></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><p></p><br />Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-33570285742664765102022-09-25T06:14:00.009-05:002022-09-25T06:47:46.975-05:00When The Spirit Shuts A Door<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-yDvAOpayyFdrnvp0q4F0da4IKfYDYMc-HIYWmGu-tag04T8AioPd5PWu8g56jXD88bIJRk2tPPTumw_6hi-4EWFn6-TlXr_Jdsdic12U5sfVB-rZgH2QHnHie0TrOa097zq9eyQAVLQKXwOpq-q4dxZKwSfBc__sL2Mgq3CUqUIZRYsL84RyKSI/s880/closed%20door.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="880" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-yDvAOpayyFdrnvp0q4F0da4IKfYDYMc-HIYWmGu-tag04T8AioPd5PWu8g56jXD88bIJRk2tPPTumw_6hi-4EWFn6-TlXr_Jdsdic12U5sfVB-rZgH2QHnHie0TrOa097zq9eyQAVLQKXwOpq-q4dxZKwSfBc__sL2Mgq3CUqUIZRYsL84RyKSI/w561-h259/closed%20door.jpg" width="561" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Act 16:7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. <br /></span></b><p></p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
What a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to
do Christ's work, and the door is shut against them by Christ's own
Spirit.</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
I, too, have experienced this in certain moments. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have sometimes
found myself interrupted in what seemed to me a career of usefulness. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Opposition came and forced me to go back, or sickness came and compelled
me to retire into a desert apart.</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
It was hard at such times to leave my work undone when I believed that
work to be the service of the Spirit. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">But I came to remember that the
Spirit has not only a service of work, but a service of waiting. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I came
to see that in the Kingdom of Christ there are not only times for
action, but times in which to forbear acting. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I came to learn that the
desert place apart is often the most useful spot in the varied life of
man-more rich in harvest than the seasons in which the corn and wine
abounded. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have been taught to thank the blessed Spirit that many a
darling Bithynia had to be left unvisited by me.</span></b></p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">
And so, Thou Divine Spirit, would I still be led by Thee. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Still there
come to me disappointed prospects of usefulness. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Today the door seems to
open into life and work for Thee; tomorrow it closes before me just as I
am about to enter. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Teach me to see another door in the very inaction of
the hour. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Help me to find in the very prohibition thus to serve Thee, a
new opening into Thy service. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Inspire me with the knowledge that a man
may at times be called to do his duty by doing nothing...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">To work by
keeping still... </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">To serve by waiting. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">When I remember the Power of the
"still small voice," I shall not murmur that sometimes the Spirit
suffers me not to go.<i> </i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>~George Matheson</i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate...</i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>I Still hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful, ONLY WAIT. <br /></i></span></b></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-75757526431459965982022-08-07T15:48:00.000-05:002022-08-07T15:48:01.269-05:00"Submit" Yourselves Unto GOD!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYohi7AE_-wpOsBAfExwpYGPprp5bFvqrfM4t6Ir6ax_9F0gIy93cs_6uPce6LPt65-9_4xfpSzoa3ybGS39C_ANJUJ8vfV592XvF4V5XYmdlpJ2bqGkWYmHzXMb9ObTwXgPMas3S3aEyu1Fiy0HtGCcidpUYCxK30AeeCq0pB4k8kszxKcKhiLmLz/s300/Submit%20to%20god.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="300" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYohi7AE_-wpOsBAfExwpYGPprp5bFvqrfM4t6Ir6ax_9F0gIy93cs_6uPce6LPt65-9_4xfpSzoa3ybGS39C_ANJUJ8vfV592XvF4V5XYmdlpJ2bqGkWYmHzXMb9ObTwXgPMas3S3aEyu1Fiy0HtGCcidpUYCxK30AeeCq0pB4k8kszxKcKhiLmLz/w509-h356/Submit%20to%20god.jpg" width="509" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Submit Yourselves Unto GOD...</span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">You Must Do It whether you are willing to do so or not. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Who Can Stand Out Against The Almighty? </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">For puny man to Oppose the LORD is for the chaff to set itself in battle array with the wind...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Or for the tow to make war with the flame. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">As well might man attempt to turn back the tide of ocean...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Or check the march of the hosts of heaven as dream of overcoming the Omnipotent. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Eternal God is irresistible...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And ANY rebellion against his government must soon end in total defeat. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">By the mouth of his servant Isaiah the LORD challenges His enemies, saying, "Who would set the briars and thorns against me in battle?" <br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I would Go Through Them, I would Burn Them Together.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>GOD Will Be Sure To Overthrow His Adversaries...</b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">He may in his Infinite Patience permit the rebel to continue for a while in his revolt...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">But as surely as the Lord liveth He Will Compel Every Knee To Bow Before Him...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And Every tongue to Confess that He Is The LIVING GOD.</span></b> </p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Submit Yourselves Unto GOD. </span></b> </p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who would do otherwise, since not to submit is Injurious now, and will be Fatal in the end? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">If we Oppose the Most High, our Opposition must lead on to Defeat and Destruction...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">For the adversaries of the LORD shall be as the fat of rams, into smoke shall they Consume Away. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">For the man who Strives with his Maker there remains a Fearful Looking For Of Judgment...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And the Dread Reward of Everlasting Punishment. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who will be so Foolhardy as to Provoke such a Result?</b></span></p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc dati1w0a e5nlhep0" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ta"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="font-size: large;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">~Charles Spurgeon~</div></div></span></b></div></div></div></div></div>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-23086004360186855552022-06-25T19:11:00.001-05:002022-06-25T19:11:57.529-05:00There Is No Darker Sin Than Ingratitude!<p align="justify"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW7Ut33-4YvmrWKTaa3i8SRv_vOJdptCWT4x2NtlztDqF3YZ8_bGV-U-xt6pOnV2UBtVnpvsteXQX9_M2HMp1FLgxPZGcoWJbNmUh4uzHjPQUMKQ9-24v4O6lNrh3KS1H-K4nJ5mRkYvihcapgxxk0YK0KihLc7JuoNJrEwLEYKMkfK3YgyStrM7q/s259/SIN%20OF%20INGRATITUDE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW7Ut33-4YvmrWKTaa3i8SRv_vOJdptCWT4x2NtlztDqF3YZ8_bGV-U-xt6pOnV2UBtVnpvsteXQX9_M2HMp1FLgxPZGcoWJbNmUh4uzHjPQUMKQ9-24v4O6lNrh3KS1H-K4nJ5mRkYvihcapgxxk0YK0KihLc7JuoNJrEwLEYKMkfK3YgyStrM7q/w502-h302/SIN%20OF%20INGRATITUDE.jpg" width="502" /></a></div><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Luke 17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? <br /></b></span></span><p></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Only <i>one </i>leper returned to give God
thanks...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Nine </i>continued
on their way unmindful, ungrateful. <i> </i></b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>And why was that?</i> </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perhaps they knew the<i> danger of committing themselves to Jesus</i>...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Knew that He was narrowly watched and suspected...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Knew that even to
receive a cure from Him was in itself an offence to many. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Lord,
I seek grace not to be so <i>cowardly!</i> </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perhaps they were afraid that now<i> the Master would have a claim
upon them</i> and would begin to press that claim. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He who had
given them their health, might demand their loyalty; and they were
not ready to yield it. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Lord, that I would be more <i>consecrated </i>than
they!</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perhaps they were seized with <i>the wish to mix with the world</i>...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To go back to its affairs...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To play their part in its business.</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They were impatient of delays which detained them from the
promotion of their own interests. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Lord, I would learn to hate
such <i>selfishness!</i></b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perhaps they thought that <i>they had only got what was their due</i>. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They thought that the loathsome disease was an injustice and a
grievance, and health was their right--and they need not be
profoundly grateful. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ah my Lord, teach me to watch against this <i>self-conceit
and pride!</i> </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Perhaps they told themselves that their Benefactor was no longer
<i>necessary
</i>to them. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The<i> pressure of urgent </i>need was past, and
its disappearance makes a vast difference. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>My lord, let me never
forget <i>Your</i> <i>untold benefits!</i><span> </span></b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>There is no darker sin than ingratitude!</span> </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>I entreat You Lord Jesus, to save me from it!</i></b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><i><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Alexander Smellie </b></span></span><br /></i></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-47050389137334566612022-05-08T20:39:00.008-05:002022-05-08T20:43:35.098-05:00Has The Warring Spirit Gone Out From "The Church"?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqn87Kg7nPryRI0FIBawsXLO5c6NErX03ylw9Gv22_tn52Bto8XWUFgqdPdoE7o7cWUbU_xKrxp-6F7_huNxN5a8oDsuQYW-0qdSTRCshX8IuFqhXmzszpYIMPz4OrqIYzta_SEkruC4s2rf_YlcWJj1tayEmZJqO3K6DQN7QmBOXUkEAJNpCq9a3/s750/spiritual%20warfare333.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="750" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaqn87Kg7nPryRI0FIBawsXLO5c6NErX03ylw9Gv22_tn52Bto8XWUFgqdPdoE7o7cWUbU_xKrxp-6F7_huNxN5a8oDsuQYW-0qdSTRCshX8IuFqhXmzszpYIMPz4OrqIYzta_SEkruC4s2rf_YlcWJj1tayEmZJqO3K6DQN7QmBOXUkEAJNpCq9a3/w514-h325/spiritual%20warfare333.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Warring spirit has gone out from so much of "The Church". </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>That is a Clever Strategy of the devil! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Lose the spirit of Spiritual Battle and you will Stop Short of Finishing The Work.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The next thing that caused these people to settle down too soon was the spirit of the world Getting In amongst them. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is the spirit of the world? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is the spirit of: Have a good time! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us have a good time! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And these people of Israel looked at the world around them and, if I understand it rightly, they said...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>These people do not have all the hard time that we do.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our life is a life of Continual Battle. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They do not know so much about that, but they believe in having a good time.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I think that is how it was at this particular time.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Of course, up to this time Israel had given the people round about a bad time! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But Israel had Lost The Fighting Spirit now, and the world was having a good time because the Church was No Longer fighting it. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Instead of fighting the world they Made Friends With The World. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They Made The World Their Friends, And So They Did Not Finish The Work. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Compromise is a Dangerous thing to the ..inheritance! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Trying to be on Good Terms with the world and having an Easy Time will result in our Losing a large part of the inheritance.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~T. Austin Sparks~</b></span></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-86243208684378735762022-04-23T20:45:00.000-05:002022-04-23T20:45:37.042-05:00Instruments To Deal With Corruption<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNkxkuZYWDaE35ZTDjFgjhQmNQmrZp1Sark6t0xA-I0-xQDvP5doAQBokDJ3jLxBaES0oBIwynOlH7t5R93y7zvc6CM6cJu-0XP3Vk_8yeAx6zPqCS8GU6x_C7l3yOEA1J_zVKQ52dNY5lZ3NsOHU_lC-OE32S34GqOUmcdk_6F0GgnDSKe_eEUs0/s611/nehemiah222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="611" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNkxkuZYWDaE35ZTDjFgjhQmNQmrZp1Sark6t0xA-I0-xQDvP5doAQBokDJ3jLxBaES0oBIwynOlH7t5R93y7zvc6CM6cJu-0XP3Vk_8yeAx6zPqCS8GU6x_C7l3yOEA1J_zVKQ52dNY5lZ3NsOHU_lC-OE32S34GqOUmcdk_6F0GgnDSKe_eEUs0/w486-h336/nehemiah222.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Take Nehemiah. Nehemiah seems to have had a
great deal of his time occupied with dealing with the other false and foreign
elements seeking to insinuate themselves into the recovery of this testimony, as
represented by the wall: </span></b><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><p>The clear line of demarcation between what is of God
and what is not of God. </p><p>He found these things had got right into the House of
God itself and had established themselves there. </p><p>And he Rooted and Routed them
out, but he was constantly being drawn out to deal with these encroachments and
these intrusions. </p><p>On the Sabbath day the traders came round the gates of
Jerusalem trying to get in, and if they could not get in on the Sabbath day they
waited there to get in immediately the doors were opened. </p><p>Nehemiah saw that this
was a corrupting thing, it had gained the upper hand and would pollute what he
was doing, and he recorded it of himself: "<i>I testified against them</i>". </p><p>Here is a man who is Alive to the Danger of these Foreign elements coming in,...</p><p>And he is all the time dealing with that which he knows if once it gets in, will Undo all that he is doing, which will Destroy the testimony.</p></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">
<p>So it was with Ezra. </p><p>And what business these
two men had in the matter of the foreign wives even of the priests! </p><p>These Foreign relationships had to be Disentangled and Cut Off...</p><p>And there had to be a
breaking in between what was of God and what was not of God in order to
establish the testimony in life. </p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">It had to be done.</span></p>
<p>In many other illustrations and instances in
the Old Testament we have this same thing, that whenever a testimony has to be
brought back into fullness of life, Everything that is of darkness, that is Foreign to light, that is Not of God, has got to be Put Out. </p><p>Otherwise our labor is in vain and the Testimony will be Nullified. </p><p>The enemy's persistent
activity is to get something in that is Not God. </p><p>If He gets in, it can carry
that to the final issue.</p>
<p>That is why the Lord Jesus Himself, as the
personification of the testimony of God, said: "<i>for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me."</i></p><p>The enemy had tried all through His life to Get Something In. </p><p>In the wilderness,
in the temptations, the enemy tried to get something in that was of himself and
insinuate himself in some way. </p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">All along he was trying to do that. </span></p><p>The enemy knew quite
well that if he could get a lodgement for something of his own kingdom that was
not of the Father, of God, he was sure of triumph in the long run. </p><p>The testimony
of life triumphing over death would be nullified. </p><p>So the enemy Concentrated Upon the
chief and the inclusive vessel of that testimony...</p><p>But the Lord was able to say
at length, when the enemy had tried all his resources: "<i>the </i><i>prince</i> <i>of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me</i>". </p><p>That is
the secret of The Lord's power and His victory; the full triumph of God over death in
Him.</p>
<p>This is something which may not be new to us,
but to have our attention drawn afresh to it is very important if we really are
to be vessels of the testimony of God concerning His Son. </p><p>This applies to us as
individuals, as individual believers, as children of God, but oh, how it applies
to us and concerns us if we are responsible in any larger way than that of
personal Christian life. </p><p>How important it is for us to be alive to this fact,
and to always bear it in mind, that as believers and as servants of God the
maintenance of the testimony in life with all that that means of the impact of
an indestructible all-conquering power over Satan, has to be upheld and
maintained.</p><p>We Must have a Very Clear Perception as to Corrupting Elements, Defiling Elements and Mixture. </p><p>Mixture is One Of the devil's Master Strokes to Nullify what is of God. </p><p>This letter of John touches upon quite a number of
things by which the enemy pursues this course of nullifying of the testimony.</p>
<p>In the first place it speaks of Inconsistency
and Contradiction in the life of the believer. </p><p>Take note of one little clause
only which is very revealing in that matter: <i>1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:</i> </p><p>1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. <br /></p><p>1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.</p><p>1Jn 2:9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. <br /></p><p>Here are contradictions in believers saying
one thing, but in the background contradicting the thing we say. </p><p>We<i> </i>need
not dwell with that very much. </p><p>It is perfectly clear that here you have two
things at work, contradicting one another. </p><p>That is the devil's work.</p><p>~T. Austin Sparks <br /></p></span></b></span><p></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-73514666395176183582022-03-03T10:36:00.001-06:002022-03-03T10:36:08.034-06:00I AM Come To Send Fire On The Earth!<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></span></b></span></p><p align="justify"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7Xf1APap7kQL2bm5cezMn1kqycAUrkasbk-LvIuU3TAbWL8Hlctz9clPUGLFPXIqs3bQ77TB3uN7OSIAIPDinTrIjp3QNOdNoQ4Klhy6nBV6ek_H2WOkNjBqUv_j6DQkOE0ZJ35rErKaGIL2DbP4MwxTywOI-97WySUpcAUKI3soeMay36zmLZyx4=s367" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="367" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7Xf1APap7kQL2bm5cezMn1kqycAUrkasbk-LvIuU3TAbWL8Hlctz9clPUGLFPXIqs3bQ77TB3uN7OSIAIPDinTrIjp3QNOdNoQ4Klhy6nBV6ek_H2WOkNjBqUv_j6DQkOE0ZJ35rErKaGIL2DbP4MwxTywOI-97WySUpcAUKI3soeMay36zmLZyx4=w524-h369" width="524" /></a></span></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Luke 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? <br /></span><p></p></span></span></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Fire always finds things out. </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>As it creeps and
encroaches and overtakes, it makes one Discrimination between things
that it can devour and things over which it has No power. </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It puts them
into those categories; the finding out, the classifying, the deciding. </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Look at the context, Luke 12:51 – “<i>Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division</i>.” </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He goes on – “<i>There
shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two,
and two against three. </i></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>They shall be divided, father against son, and
son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her
mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law
against her mother in law</i>...”</b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Discriminating, setting things in the category to which they belong.</b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Luke 12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. </b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Luke 12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. <br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span></span><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One category is that which can go on and abide and
endure because it is of God. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The other will be licked up by the fire,
and simply pass out of existence. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The fire of unavoidable and unerring
discrimination. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That has ever been the effect of a work of the Holy
Spirit; to put us into the place to which we belong. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>It is a kind of
dividing thing all the time. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are you for, or are you against? </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are you
with, or are you not with the Lord? </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are you going on with the Lord, or
are you not going on with the Lord? </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Holy Spirit is pursuing that
course all the time to find us out and to just classify us like this,
so that when the Holy Spirit has worked we are in definite categories. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Division has come, and it is unavoidable.</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~T. Austin Sparks </b></span></span><br /></p>
</span></span></span><p></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-22667433630340700142022-02-16T14:09:00.000-06:002022-02-16T14:09:50.943-06:00There Is A Limit To Affliction<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVeULhBNKrmHc1OcX34feLl8HLFXnT_JmSNtP8L36YcldnbTFFBcgcHy_qiKXFzLzORhmqJSZrtGPf_bpRNqi_Cydc7_6Lsfg3udZljZkVGhB1pBgaUTsFCjE-xjOWeu9rJWDoB6H2MoV9XuYHgWqb7XTEs3_6rsDk2qRuDNQxdH9nV2gupUQXryn1=s598" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="598" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVeULhBNKrmHc1OcX34feLl8HLFXnT_JmSNtP8L36YcldnbTFFBcgcHy_qiKXFzLzORhmqJSZrtGPf_bpRNqi_Cydc7_6Lsfg3udZljZkVGhB1pBgaUTsFCjE-xjOWeu9rJWDoB6H2MoV9XuYHgWqb7XTEs3_6rsDk2qRuDNQxdH9nV2gupUQXryn1=w496-h375" width="496" /></a></div><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nahum 1:12 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>There is a limit to affliction. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>God sends it, and removes it. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do you sigh and say, "When will the end be?" </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us quietly wait and patiently endure the will of the Lord till He cometh. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our Father takes away the rod when His design in using it is fully served.<br /><br />If the affliction is sent for testing us, that our graces may glorify God, it will end when the Lord has made us bear witness to His praise.<br /><br />We would not wish the affliction to depart until God has gotten out of us all the honor which we can possibly yield Him. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There may be today " a great calm." </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Who knows how soon those raging billows will give place to a sea of glass and the sea birds sit on the gentle waves?<br /><br />After long tribulation, the flail is hung up, and the wheat rests in the garner. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We may, before many hours are past, be just as happy as now we are sorrowful.<br /><br />It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~C.H. Spurgeon</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The great Husbandman is not always threshing. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Trial is only for a season. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The showers soon pass. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Weeping may tarry only for the few hours of the short summer night; it must be gone at day break. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our light affliction is but for a moment. Trial is for a purpose, "If needs be."</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The very fact of trial proves that there is something in us very precious to our Lord; else He would not spend so much pains and time on us. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Christ would not test us if He did not see the precious ore of faith mingled in the rocky matrix of our nature...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And it is to bring this out into purity and beauty that He forces us through the fiery ordeal.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Be patient, O sufferer! </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The result will more than compensate for all our trials, when we see how they wrought out the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To have one word of God's commendation; to be honored before the holy angels; to be glorified in Christ, so as to be better able to flash His glory on Himself-ah! that will more than repay for all.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Tried by Fire<br /><br />As the weights of the clock, or the ballast in the vessel, are necessary for their right orderings, so is trouble in the soul-life.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The fairest flowers grow amid Alpine snow-solitudes...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary's wheel...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>All, however, are under law. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Daily Devotional Commentary-</b></span></span></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-56395898757905556642022-01-20T18:53:00.000-06:002022-01-20T18:53:07.041-06:00Sapping Of Vitality<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguqLqRi9DPCBc_IpYwPANCRRwg4fmg2uO_-HrnP98XnEeEd95OSrS5A6E4oPr-0UIMtUTXclB9Ju75m-5jQbKSLt7CW8Wx-PcH8NibJ98hHRLnxddkPdQVykJEjNrOBrAEEFvL-yB0jaRsF8o5g-Ci3QULeAPtxjZdmD0xlK-vegye_8YmApVu9LoR=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguqLqRi9DPCBc_IpYwPANCRRwg4fmg2uO_-HrnP98XnEeEd95OSrS5A6E4oPr-0UIMtUTXclB9Ju75m-5jQbKSLt7CW8Wx-PcH8NibJ98hHRLnxddkPdQVykJEjNrOBrAEEFvL-yB0jaRsF8o5g-Ci3QULeAPtxjZdmD0xlK-vegye_8YmApVu9LoR=w520-h269" width="520" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">I have not the slightest shadow of a doubt but that the issue of our day, of this hour in the Church's history is...</span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">More than ever, the issue of life and death in a spiritual sense. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Are you not more and more experiencing that awful sapping of your very vitality?</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">That draining of your life, that exhausting of your energy, perhaps especially in relation to prayer? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Is it not true that it often requires a supreme effort to pray, and to get through when you have started to pray? </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">You need energizing from a source other than that of your own natural energies in this matter, and that increasingly so. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">There is a strange, deep, terrible sapping of vitality, mental and physical vitality as well as spiritual. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Spiritual people, at least, know something of that. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And lying at the back of it is the final conflict of this age. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">It is the spiritual issue of life and death.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Lord would say to us something about that at this time...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And we have to direct our eyes in the the way of the Lord's thought to the great issue which is at stake for His people. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">I trust that we shall know that He is not only making us aware of it...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">And not only warning us about the perils of it...</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">But that He comes mightily to our aid and shows us what is on our side in the battle.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">~T. Austin Sparks~ </span></b><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-7855040736617826442022-01-01T06:25:00.002-06:002022-01-01T06:26:53.236-06:00We Stand On The Verge Of The Unknown<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSr5ZcVOZWZbks2TvGOxdufdgsWknEiJgAUM_6JFWz5f-BToyuEyxGPjjlRIi89W8ncnxQ74XnOTz5jkp3ft5ReS_nW84Dh6Jj8ekvoHHRGL4QLrczUge8Ta8MctV_xZYeipVZimUoEgGjwAcScs07KgFg8u8Y0-RHbmGfHCNyhdyLNr7xq8r5b9ro=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="800" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSr5ZcVOZWZbks2TvGOxdufdgsWknEiJgAUM_6JFWz5f-BToyuEyxGPjjlRIi89W8ncnxQ74XnOTz5jkp3ft5ReS_nW84Dh6Jj8ekvoHHRGL4QLrczUge8Ta8MctV_xZYeipVZimUoEgGjwAcScs07KgFg8u8Y0-RHbmGfHCNyhdyLNr7xq8r5b9ro=w501-h304" width="501" /></a></div><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Deu 11:11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:</i></b></span></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Deu 11:12 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. </i></b></span><br /></span></span></p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
Today, dear friends, we stand upon the verge of the unknown.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">There lies
before us the new year and we are going forth to possess it.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Who can
tell what we shall find?</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">What new experiences, what changes shall come,
what new needs shall arise?</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">But here is the cheering, comforting,
gladdening message from our Heavenly Father, "The Lord thy God careth
for it."</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
All our supply is to come from the Lord.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here are springs that shall
never dry; here are fountains and streams that shall never be cut off. </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here anxious one, is the gracious pledge of the Heavenly Father.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">If He
be the Source of our mercies they can never fail us.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">No heat, no drought
can parch that river, "the streams whereof make glad the city of God."</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
The land is a land of hills and valleys.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">It is not all smooth nor all
down hill.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">If life were all one dead level the dull sameness would
oppress us; we want the hills and the valleys.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The hills collect the
rain for a hundred fruitful valleys.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ah, so it is grace and brings down
the shower of blessing...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The hills, the bleak hills of life that we
wonder at and perhaps grumble at, bring down showers.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">How many have
perished in the wilderness, buried under its golden sands, who would
have lived and thrived in the hill-country...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">How many would have been
killed by the frost, blighted with winds, swept desolate of tree and
fruit but for the hill- stern, hard, rugged, so steep to climb. </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">God's
hills are a gracious protection for His people against their foes!</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
We cannot tell what loss and sorrow and trial are doing. </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Trust only. </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">The Father comes near to take our hand and lead us on our way today.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">It
shall be a good, a Blessed New Year!</span></b></span></span></p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></b></span></span><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">
He leads us on by paths we did not know; Upward He leads us, though our steps be slow...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Yet when the clouds are gone, We know He leads us on.</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">He leads us on through all the unquiet years; Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts and fears...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">He guides our steps, through all the tangled maze Of losses, sorrows, and o’er clouded days...</span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;">We know His will is done; And still He leads us on.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #45818e;"><span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>~Nicholaus Ludwig Zinzendorf</i></span></b></span></span></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-29410967124611642682021-12-26T18:50:00.002-06:002021-12-26T18:50:57.426-06:00Stand Still <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguE3tGbg12yNXalx1tLhHZ_9invJBjBCw22Hc13KEaN2O6MRS8ToHfa9Oxl9SC_BSjxRbu4LkDem-FO4wYQAan2lF14Gda8ilAgO1CcXgCMMkh6cV0aQzGXhgreP5YZsnOUMMmqPRhIcuS_m35x125t2ObQpK-jc_qn2HF9t675iP1b2RRxsmkQWRy=s692" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="692" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguE3tGbg12yNXalx1tLhHZ_9invJBjBCw22Hc13KEaN2O6MRS8ToHfa9Oxl9SC_BSjxRbu4LkDem-FO4wYQAan2lF14Gda8ilAgO1CcXgCMMkh6cV0aQzGXhgreP5YZsnOUMMmqPRhIcuS_m35x125t2ObQpK-jc_qn2HF9t675iP1b2RRxsmkQWRy=w515-h340" width="515" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> <br /></b></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Exo 14:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.</i></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>These
words contain God's command to the believer when he is reduced to great
straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He cannot retreat;
he cannot go forward; he is shut upon the right hand and on the left. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is he now to do?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Master's word to him is
"stand still." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It will be well for him if, at such times, he listens
only to his Master's word, for other and evil advisers come with their
suggestions. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Despair whispers, "Lie down and die; give it all up." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But
God would have us put on a cheerful courage, and even in our worst
times, rejoice in His love and faithfulness.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cowardice
says, "Retreat; go back to the worldling's way of action; you cannot
play the Christian's part; it is too difficult. Relinquish your
principles."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But, however much Satan may urge this
course upon you, you cannot follow it, if you are a child of God. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>His
Divine command has bid thee go from strength to strength, and so thou
shalt, and neither death nor hell shall turn thee from thy course. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What
if for a while thou art called to stand still; yet this is but to renew
thy strength for some greater advance in due time.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Haste cries, "Do something; stir yourself; to stand still and wait is sheer
idleness." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We must be doing something at once--we must do it, so we
think-instead of looking to the Lord, who will not only do something,
but will do everything.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Presumption boasts, "If the
sea be before you, march into it, and expect a miracle." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But faith
listens neither to Presumption, nor to Despair, nor to Cowardice, nor to Haste, but it hears God say, "Stand still," and immovable as a
rock it stands.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Stand still"-keep the posture of an
upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and
patiently awaiting the directing voice...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And it will not be long ere God
shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of
Israel, "Go forward."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Be quiet! why this anxious heed About thy tangled ways?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>God knows them all. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He giveth speed And He allows delays.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tis good for thee to walk by faith And not by sight.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Take it on trust a little while.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Soon shalt thou read the mystery aright In the full sunshine of His smile.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In
times of uncertainty, wait. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Always, if you have any doubt, wait. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do not
force yourself to any action. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you have a restraint in your spirit,
wait until all is clear, and do not go against it. </b></span><br /></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-24676924161986005912021-12-06T14:13:00.000-06:002021-12-06T14:13:00.820-06:00GOD Has Closed The Door To The "Old Creation"!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeWrms_LEaU0vtUhtfCQHf7ihQ80elAWdt6C6eSPbqPwoM8ffhokrbR5gcQpScUCpkdYMuAAgfPIjlQ6QcJQINeKURWgNzY7S2r8f_D55bXrPgoBCci14fAFrJQ33SL8aS_iysOY-7b4/s289/closed+door-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="289" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHeWrms_LEaU0vtUhtfCQHf7ihQ80elAWdt6C6eSPbqPwoM8ffhokrbR5gcQpScUCpkdYMuAAgfPIjlQ6QcJQINeKURWgNzY7S2r8f_D55bXrPgoBCci14fAFrJQ33SL8aS_iysOY-7b4/w524-h295/closed+door-001.jpg" width="524" /></a></div> <p></p><hr /><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Heb 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. </i></b></span></p></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We talk about our motives, and we say, "Our motive
was right!" </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We talk about our conscientiousness, we talk about our
intentions...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But you and I do not know what lies behind what we call our
good motives. </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There is a deceitfulness about this human heart that
defies our greatest attempt at tracking it down, and we shall never do
it.... </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here is where the church has become such a confused thing, and
such a tragedy...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For the Prevailing Idea is that if you give yourself
over to God He will take you up and use you... <br /></b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Bring over your humanity
and consecrate it to the Lord...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Consecrate your old man to the Lord, and
go out and serve the Lord, with a consecrated old man...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: white;">It is Utterly Contrary to the Teaching of God’s Word! </span><br /></b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The result is that in the work
of God all the world over you have people serving the Lord in the
energy of the flesh...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the reasoning of the flesh...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the emotions of
the flesh... <br /></b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Meet them, counter them, frustrate them, and you meet
something evil...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>You meet with a fight, a division, a schism, a
scattering, and wholesale resignations.</b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do you see what a havoc the enemy can make in that
which is called the church?...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Because people with best intentions and
purest motives have come to serve the Lord with all their own
intelligence, their own strength, and their own emotion... <br /></b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>They have not
seen that God has closed the door to the old creation...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And that God’s
attitude is this: "The only thing that can satisfy Me, that can serve Me
is My Son...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And if you are going to come into My service, He has to be
the energy of everything, the Life of everything, the Wisdom of
everything!</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He has to be the governing, ruling reality in everything. </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is not to be a matter of your impulses, but of His urgings and
leadings by the Holy Spirit...</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Not your sitting down to reason out what
it would be good to do for the Lord...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What ought to be done...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What needs
to be done...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But what He shows you, nothing more.... </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>You and I must not
bring over our old creation and give it to God, expecting God to use
it. </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>God begins with birth. </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The church of the firstborn is something
quite new, and it comes out of a death. </b></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That death is the death of an
old creation... </b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And the resurrection is of something that is not the
resuscitation of an old creation...</b></span></p><p align="justify"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But the resurrection of something
wholly of God.</b></span></span></p><p align="justify"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~T. Austin Sparks <br /></b></span></p>
</span></span></span></span><br />Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-66912355034951173992021-11-14T09:09:00.003-06:002021-11-14T10:58:15.627-06:00The NAME To Use<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7L-16mJ3-AlD-Fxhpdg6U800gZkCvlAPyhHD7zXQ0MhljmjnAmmOlsdBKZTsSdadZz5qKXYbbSa0Fl2icWJPEZ7Fbb_WB6rOx3qqrkljroGzTi7inlo77nZEHqgfIn4GXfV9mbqI4ra0/s570/0000000000000000JESUS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="570" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7L-16mJ3-AlD-Fxhpdg6U800gZkCvlAPyhHD7zXQ0MhljmjnAmmOlsdBKZTsSdadZz5qKXYbbSa0Fl2icWJPEZ7Fbb_WB6rOx3qqrkljroGzTi7inlo77nZEHqgfIn4GXfV9mbqI4ra0/w520-h327/0000000000000000JESUS.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><i> <br /> <span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. <br /></b></span></span></i><p></p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>
</b></span></span><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>What a wide promise! Anything! </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Whether large or small, All my needs
are covered by that word Anything. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come, my soul, be free at the mercy
seat, and hear thy LORD saying to thee, "Open thy mouth wide, and I will
fill it." </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>What a wise promise! </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>We are always to ask in the Name of
Jesus. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>While this encourages us, it also honors Him. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is a constant
plea. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Occasionally every other plea is darkened, especially such as we
could draw from our own relation to God or our experience of His grace;...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But at such times the name of Jesus is as Mighty at the throne as ever,
and we may plead it with Full Assurance. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What an instructive prayer! </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I may not ask for anything to which I cannot put Christ's Hand and Seal.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I dare not use my LORD's name to a Selfish or Willful petition. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I
may only use my LORD's name to prayers which He would Himself pray if He
were in my case. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is a high privilege to be authorized to ask in the Name of Jesus as if Jesus Himself asked...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But our love to Him will never
allow us to set that name where He would not have set it. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Am I asking
for that which Jesus Approves? </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Dare I put His seal to my prayer? </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Then I Have that which I Seek of the Father.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Charles Spurgeon <br /></b></span></span></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1370834039450567856.post-2420064198222120092021-10-06T12:45:00.000-05:002021-10-06T12:45:39.285-05:00Don't Rush!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpJqwKf5WafmPHSlE9k_fl_tSW70KCjeD3DFRU9nV1VWuf0YrjGhQ_wLXOoI-GNoNDpMlWkhmZyCsBQCIiGGK17uVR2AEAW2b7HyoYR-6b4-l5hA62SSI4t6qILe7W1o8enE8hvOftlg/s281/isiah-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="281" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpJqwKf5WafmPHSlE9k_fl_tSW70KCjeD3DFRU9nV1VWuf0YrjGhQ_wLXOoI-GNoNDpMlWkhmZyCsBQCIiGGK17uVR2AEAW2b7HyoYR-6b4-l5hA62SSI4t6qILe7W1o8enE8hvOftlg/w508-h350/isiah-001.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i> <br /></i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">What shall
the believer do in times of darkness - the darkness of perplexity and
confusion, not of heart but of mind? </span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Times of darkness come to the
faithful and believing disciple who is walking obediently in the will of
God; seasons when he does not know what to do, nor which way to turn.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The sky is overcast with clouds. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The clear light of Heaven does not
shine upon his pathway. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One feels as if he were groping his way in
darkness.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Beloved, is this you? </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What shall the
believer do in times of darkness?</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b>Listen! </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let him trust in the name of
the Lord, and rely upon his God.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The first thing to
do is do nothing. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>This is hard for poor human nature to do. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the West
there is a saying that runs thus, "When you're rattled, don't rush"...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>In
other words, "When you don't know what to do, don't do it."</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>When
you run into a spiritual fog bank, don't tear ahead...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Slow down the
machinery of your life. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If necessary, anchor your bark or let it swing
at its moorings. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b>We are to simply trust God. </b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>While we trust, God can
work. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Worry prevents Him from doing anything for us. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If our minds. are
distracted and our hearts distressed; if the darkness that overshadows
us strikes terror to us; if we run hither and yon in a vain effort to
find some way of escape out of a dark place of trial, where Divine
providence has put us, the Lord can do nothing for us.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The
peace of God must quiet our minds and rest our hearts. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We must put our
hand in the hand of God like a little child, and let Him lead us out
into the bright sunshine of His love.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He knows the
way out of the woods. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Let us climb up into His arms, and trust Him to
take us out by the shortest and surest road.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>~Dr. Pardington</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Remember we are never without a pilot when we know not how to steer.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hold on, my heart, in thy believing-The steadfast only wins the crown...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>He who, when stormy winds are heaving, Parts with its anchor, shall go down...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But he who Jesus holds through all, Shall stand, though Heaven and earth should fall.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b>Hold out! There comes an end to sorrow...</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span><b>Hope from the dust shall conquering rise...</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The storm foretells a summer's morrow...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Cross points on to Paradise...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Father Reigneth! Cease All Doubt;</b></span></span></p>Witness And Testimonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11437186249122291184noreply@blogger.com0