The Initiative Against Dreaming

Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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     "Arise. let us go hence." John 14:31 Dreaming about something in order to correct is only right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong. You must be willing to put the dream to action. After our Lord had said those wonderful things to His disciples, we might have expected the He would tell them to go away and meditate over them all; but our Lord never allowed "mooning." When we are getting into contact with God in order to find out what He wants, dreaming is right, but when we are inclined to spend our time in dreaming over what have been told to do, it's a bad thing and God's blessing is never on it. God's initiative is always in the nature of a stab against this kind of dreaming, the stab that bids us "neither sit nor stand but go."
     If we are quietly waiting before God and He has said , "Come ye yourselves apart, then that is meditation before God in order to get at the line He wants; but always beware of giving over to mere dreaming when once God has spoken. Leave Him to be the source of all your dreams and joys and delights, and go out and obey what He has said. If you are in love, you do not sit down and dream about the one you love all the time, you go and do something for him; and that is what Jesus Christ expects us to do. Dreaming after God has spoken is an indication that we do not trust Him.

Recall What God Remembers

Sunday, February 9, 2014
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      Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "I remember...the kindness of thy youth." Jeremiah 2:2 Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes. It is a great thing to think that Jesus Christ has need of me. "Give Me to drink." How much kindness have I shown Him this past week? Have I been kind to His reputation in my life?
     God is saying to His people, You are not in love with Me now, but I remember the rime when you were, I remember the love of thine equals. Am I as full of the extravagance of love to Jesus Christ as I was in the beginning, when I went out of my way to prove my devotion? Does He find me recalling the time when I didn't care for anything but Him? Am I there now, or have I become wise over loving Him? Am I so in love with Him that take no account of where I go? or am I watching for the respect due to me; weighing how much service I ought to give?
     If, as I recall what God remembers about me, I find He is not what He used to be to me, let it produce shame and humiliation, because the shame will bring the godly sorrow that works repentance.

The Recognized Ban Of Relationship

Friday, January 31, 2014
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We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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      Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. Today's reading is from the book "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. "We are made as the filth of the world." I Corinthians 4:13 Those words are not an exaggeration. The reason they are not true of us who call ourselves ministers of the gospel is not that Paul forgot the exact truth in using them, but that we have too many discreet affinities to allow ourselves to be made refuse. "Filling up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ" is not an evidence of sanctification, but of being "separated unto the gospel."
     "Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you," says Peter. If we do think it strange concerning the things we meet with, it is because we are craven-hearted. We have discreet affinities that keep us out of the mire, I won't stoop, I won't bend. You do not need to, you can be saved by the skin of your teeth if you like; you can refuse to let God count you as one separated unto the gospel. Or you may say, "I do not care if I am treated as the offscouring of the earth as long as the gospel is proclaimed." A servant of Jesus Christ is one who is willing to go to martyrdom for the reality of the gospel of God. When a merely moral man or woman comes in contact with baseness and immorality and treachery, the recoil is so desperately offensive to human goodness that the heart of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but "to reveal His Son in me."

The Time Of Relapse

Thursday, January 30, 2014
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      Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Will ye also go away?" John 6:67 A penetrating question. Our Lord's words come home most when He talks in the most simple way. We know Who Jesus is, but in spite of that He says, "Will ye also go away?" We have to maintain a venturing attitude toward Him all the time.
     "From the time many of His disciples went back, and walked no more with Him." They went back from walking with Jesus, not into sin, but they relapsed. Many today are spending and being spent in work for Jesus Christ, but they do not walk with Him. The one thing God keeps us steadily is that we may be one with Jesus Christ. After sanctification the discipline of our spiritual life is along this line. If God gives a clear and emphatic realization to your soul of what He wants, do not try to keep yourself in that relationship by any particular method, but live a natural life of absolute dependence on Jesus Christ. Never try to live the life with God on any other line than God's line, and that line is absolute devotion to Him. The certainty that I do not know, that is the secret of going with Jesus.
     Peter only saw in Jesus Someone to minister salvation to him and to the world. Our Lord wants us to be yoke fellows with Him.
     Jesus answers the great lack in Peter. We cannot answer for others.

The Condition Of Discipleship

Wednesday, January 29, 2014
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We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "If any man come to Me, and hate not...he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:26 If the closest relationships of life clash with the claims of Jesus Christ, He says it must be instant obedience to Himself. Discipleship means personal, passionate devotion to a Person, our Lord Jesus Christ. There is a difference between devotion to a Person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause; He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted love slave of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of us who call ourselves Christians are not devoted to Jesus Christ. No man on earth has this passionate love to the Lord Jesus unless the Holy Ghost has imparted it to him. We may admire Him, we may respect Him and reverence Him, but we cannot love Him. The only Lover of the Lord Jesus is the Holy Ghost, and He sheds abroad the very love of God in our hearts. Whenever the Holy Ghost sees a chance of glorifying Jesus, He will take your heart, your nerves, your whole personality, and simply make you blaze and glow with devotion to Jesus Christ.
     The Christian life is stamped by "moral spontaneous originality," consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

Could This Be True of Me?

Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "But none of these things move me, neither count i my life dear unto myself." Acts 20:24 It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will bemore prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God. But if once you receive a commission from Jesus Christ, the memory of what God wants will always come like a goad; you will no longer be able to work for Him on the common-sense basis.
     What do I really count dear? If I have not been gripped by Jesus Christ, I will count service dear, time given to God dear, my life dear unto myself. Paul says he counted his life dear only in order that he might fulfill the ministry he had received; he refused to use his energy for any other thing. Acts 20:24 states Paul's almost sublime annoyance at being asked to consider himself; he was absolutely indifferent to any consideration other than that of fulfilling the ministry he had received. Practical work may be a competitor against abandonment to God, because practical work is based on this argument- Remember how useful you are here, or- Think how much value you would be in that particular type of work. That attitude does not put Jesus Christ a the Guide as to where we should go, but our judgement as to where we are of most use. Never consider whether you are use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.

Do You See Your Calling?

Monday, January 27, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Separated unto the gospel." Romans 1:1 Our calling is not primarily to be holy men and women, but to proclaim the gospel of God. The one thing that is all important is that the gospel of God should be realized as the abiding reality. Reality is not human goodness, nor holiness, nor heaven, nor hell; but redemption; and the need to perceive this is the most vital need of the Christian worker today. As workers we have to get used to the revelation that redemption is the only reality. Personal holiness is an effect, not a cause, and if we place our faith in human goodness, in the effect of redemption, we shall go under when the test comes.
     Paul did not say he separated himself, but "when it pleased God who separated me..." Paul didn't have a hypersensitive interest in his own character. As long as our eyes are upon our own personal whiteness we shall never get near the reality of redemption.Workers break down because their desire is for their own whiteness, and not for God. "Don't ask me to come into contact with the rugged reality of redemption on behalf of the filth of human life as it is; what I want is anything God can do for me to make me more desirable in my own eyes." To talk in that way is a sign that the reality of the gospel of God hasn't begun to touch me; there is no reckless abandon to God. God can't deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul is unconscious of himself, he is recklessly abandoned, separated by God for one purpose, to proclaim the gospel of God.

Does My Sacrifice Live?

Sunday, January 26, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "And Abraham built an altar...and bound Issac his son." Genesis 22:9 This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to do what Jesus did, sacrifice our lives. Not I am willing to go to death with Thee, but I am willing to be identified with Thy death so that I may sacrifice my life to God. We seem to think that God wants us to give up things! God purified Abraham from this blunder, and the same discipline goes on in our lives. God nowhere tells us to give them up for the sale of the only thing worth having, life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bands that hinder the life, and immediately those bands are loosened by identification with the death of Jesus, we enter into a relationship with God whereby we can sacrifice our lives to Him.
     It is of no value to God to give Him your life for death. He wants us to be a "living sacrifice," to let Him have all your powers that have been saved and sanctified through Jesus. This is the thing that is acceptable to God.

The Worker's Ruling Passion

Saturday, January 25, 2014
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We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Wherefore we labor that... we may be accepted of Him." II Corinthians 5:9 "Wherefore we labor..." It is arduous to keep the master ambition in front. It means holding one's self to the high ideal year in and year out, not being ambitious to win souls or to establish churches or to have revivals, but being ambitious only to be "accepted of Him." It is not lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but lack of laboring to keep the ideal right. Once a week at least take stock before God and see whether you are keeping your life up to the standard He wishes. Paul is like a musician who doesn't need the approval of the audience if he can catch the look of approval from his Master.
     Any ambition which is in the tiniest degree away from this central one of being "approved unto God" may end in our being castaways. Learn to discern where the ambition leads, and you will see why it is so necessary to live facing the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul says, "Lest my body should make me take another line, I am constantly watching so that I may bring it into subjection and keep it under."
     I have to learn to relate everything to the master ambition, and to maintain it without any cessation. My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?

The Discipline Of Dejection

Friday, January 24, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "But we trusted...and beside all this...today is the third day..." Luke 24:21 Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savors of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me, I am to blame; God is not, nor is anyone else. Dejection springs from one of two sources, I have either satisfied a lust or I have not. Lust means I must have it at once. Spiritual lust makes me demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Who gives the answer. What have I been trusting God would do? And today, the immediate present, is the third day, and He has not done it; therefore I imagine I am justified in being dejected and in blaming God. Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer. It is impossible to be well physically and to be dejected. Dejection is a sign of sickness, and the same thing is true spiritually. Dejection spiritually is wrong, and we are always to blame for it.
     We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power (the fact that we are dejected proves that we do), and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. One of the most amazing revelations of God comes when we learn that it is in the commonplace things that the Deity of Jesus Christ is realized.

Is He Really Lord?

Thursday, January 23, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "...so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus." Acts 20:24 Joy means the perfect fulfillment of that for which I was created and regenerated, not the successful doing of a thing. The joy of our Lord had lay in doing what the Father sent Him to do, and He says, "As My Father hath sent Me, even so I am sending you." Have I received a ministry from the Lord? If so, I have to be loyal to it, to count my life precious only for the fulfilling of that ministry. Think of the satisfaction it will be to hear Jesus say, "Well done, good and faithful servant"; to know that you have done what He sent you to do. We have all to find our niche in life, and spiritually we find it when we receive our ministry from the Lord. In order to do this we must have accompanied with Jesus; we must know Him as more than a personal Savior. "I will show him how great things he must suffer for My sake."
     "Lovest thou Me?" Then, "Feed My sheep." There is no choice of service, only absolute loyalty to our Lord's commission; loyalty to what you discern when you are in closest contact with God. If you have received a ministry from the Lord Jesus, you will know that the need is never the call; the need is opportunity. The call is loyalty to the ministry you received when you were in real touch with Him. This does not imply that there is a campaign of service marked out for you, but it does mean that you will have to ignore the demands for service along other lines.

The Voice Of The Nature Of God

Wednesday, January 22, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send?" Isaiah 6:8 When we speak of the call of God, we are apt to forget the most important feature, the nature of the One who calls. There is the call of the sea, the call of the mountains, the call of the great ice barriers, but these calls are only heard by the few. The call is the expression of the nature from which it comes, and we can only record the call if the same nature is in us. The call of God is the expression of God's nature, not of our nature. There are strands of the call of God providentially at work for us which we recognize and no one else does. It is the threading of God's voice to us in some particular matter, and it is no use consulting anyone else about it. We have to keep that profound relationship between our souls and God.
     The call of God is not the echo of my nature; my affinities and personal temperament are not considered. As long as I consider my personal temperament and think about what I am fitted for, I shall never hear the call of God. But when I am brought into relationship with God, I am in the condition Isaiah was in. Isaiah's soul was so attuned to God by the tremendous crisis he had gone through that he recorded the call of God to his amazed soul. The majority of us have no ear for anything but ourselves, we can't hear a thing that God says. To be brought into the zone of the call of God is to be profoundly altered.

The Constraint Of The Call

Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Woe is unto me, If I preach not the gospel." I Corinthians 9:16 Beware of stopping your ears to the call of God. Everyone who is saved is called to testify to the fact; but that is not the call to preach, it is merely an illustration in preaching, Paul is referring to the pangs produced in him by the constraint to preach the gospel. Never apply what Paul says in this connection to souls coming in contact with God for salvation. There is nothing easier than getting saved because it is God's sovereign work- Come unto Me and I will save you. Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation. We are condemned to salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ. Discipleship has an option with it - "If any man..."
 Paul's words have to do with being made a servant of Jesus Christ, and our permission is never asked as to what we will do or where we will go. God makes us broken bread and poured-out wine to please Himself. To be "separated unto the gospel" means to hear the call of God; and when a man begins to overhear that call, then begins agony that is worthy of the name. Every ambition is nipped in the bud, every desire of life quenched, every outlook completely extinguished and blotted out, saving one thing only- "separated unto the gospel." Woe be to the soul who tries to put his foot in any other direction when once that call has come to him. You have to care about proclaiming His gospel, and let God grip you, and beware of competitors when God does grip you.

Do You Walk In White?

Saturday, January 18, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Buried with Him..that..even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4 No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a "white funeral"- the burial of the old life. If there has never been a crisis of death, sanctification is nothing more than a vision. There must be a "white funeral," a death that has only one resurrection, a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can upset such a life, it is one with God for one purpose, to be a witness to Him.
     Have you come to your last days really? You have come to them often in sentiment, but have you come to them really? You can't go to your funeral in excitement, or die in excitement. Death means you stop being. Do you agree with God that you stop being the striving, earnest kind of Christian you have been? we skirt the cemetery and all the time refuse to go to death. It is not striving to go to death, it is dying, "baptized into His death."
     Have you had your "white funeral," or are you sacredly playing the fool with your soul? Is there a place in your life marked as the last day, a place to which the memory goes back with a chastened and extraordinarily grateful remembrance, "Yes, it was then, at the 'white funeral,' that I made an agreement with God."
     This is the will of God, even your sanctification." When you realize what the will of God is, you will enter into sanctification as naturally as can be. Are you willing to go through the "white funeral" now? Do you agree with Him that this is your last day on earth? The moment of agreement depends on you. 

Called Of God

Friday, January 17, 2014
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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." Isaiah 6:8 God did not address the call to Isaiah; Isaiah overheard God saying, "Who will go for us?" The call of God is not for the special few, it is for everyone. Whether or not I hear God's call depends upon the state of my ears; and what I hear depends upon my disposition. "Many are called but few are chosen," that is, few prove themselves the chosen ones. The chosen ones are those who have come into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ whereby their disposition has been altered and their ears unstopped, and they hear the still small voice questioning all the time, "Who will go for us?" It is not a question of God singling out a man and saying," Now, you go." God did not lay a strong compulsion on Isaiah; Isaiah was in the presence of God and he overheard the call, and realized that there was nothing else for him but to say, in conscious freedom, "Here am I, send me." Get out of your mind the idea of expecting God to come with compulsions and pleadings. When our Lord called His disciples there was no irresistible compulsion from outside. The quiet passionate insistence of His "Follow Me" was spoken to men with every power wide awake. If we let the Spirit of God bring us face to face with God, we too shall hear something akin to what Isaiah heard, the still small voice of God; and in perfect freedom will say, "Here am I; send me."

Moral Divinity

Thursday, January 16, 2014
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "For if we have planned together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection." Romans 6:5 The proof that I have been through crucifixion with Jesus is that I have a decided likeness to Him. The incoming of the Spirit of Jesus into me readjusts my personal life to God. The resurrection of Jesus has given Him authority to impart the life of God to me, and my experimental life must be constructed on the basis of His life. I can have the resurrection life of Jesus now, and it will show itself in holiness.
     The idea all through the apostle Paul's writings is that after the moral decision to be identified with Jesus in His death has been made, the resurrection life of Jesus invades every bit of my human nature. It takes omnipotence to live the life of the Son of God in mortal flesh. The Holy Spirit can't be located as a Guest in a house, He invades everything. When once I decide that my "old man" should be identified with the death of Jesus, then the Holy Spirit invades me. He takes charge of everything; my part is to walk in the light and to obey all that He reveals. When I have made the moral decision about sin, it is easy to reckon actually that I am dead unto sin, because I find the life of Jesus there all the time. Just as there is only one stamp o humanity, so there is only one stamp of holiness, the holiness of Jesus, and it is His holiness that is gifted to me. God puts the holiness of His Son into me, and I belong to a new order spiritually.

Have You Ever Been Alone With God?

Wednesday, January 15, 2014
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "When He was alone...the twelve asked of Him..." Mark 4:10 When God gets us alone by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new friendship, when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are dumbfounded, and can't ask one question, the He begins to expound. Watch Jesus Christ's training of the twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside, who were perplexed. They constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly expounded things to them; but they only understood after they had received the Holy Spirit.
     If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul. Your brother's sorrows and perplexities are an absolute confusion to us. We imagine we understand where the other person is, until God gives us a dose of the plague of our own hearts. There are whole tracts of stubbornness and ignorance to be revealed by the Holy Spirit in each one of us, and it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now, or are we taken up with little fussy notions, funny comradeship in God's service, fussy ideas about our bodies? Jesus can expound nothing until we get through all the noisy questions of the head and are alone with Him.

What To Do Under The Conditions

Tuesday, January 14, 2014
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Psalm 55:22 We must distinguish between the burden-bearing that is right and the burden-bearing that is wrong. We ought never to bear the burden of sin or of doubt, but there are burdens placed on us by God which He does not intend to lift off. He wants us to roll them back on Him. "Cast that He hath given thee upon the Lord." If we undertake work for God and get out of touch with Him, the sense of responsibility will be overwhelmingly crushing; but if we roll back on God that which He has put upon us, He takes away the sense of responsibility by bringing in the realization of Himself.
     Many workers have gone out with high courage and fine impulses, but with no intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ, and before long they are crushed. They do not know what to do with the burden, it produces weariness, and people say, "What an embittered end to such a beginning!"
     "Roll thy burden upon the Lord," you have been bearing it all deliberately put one end on the shoulders of God. "The government shall be upon His shoulder." Commit to God "that He hath given thee"; not fling it off, but put it over onto Him and yourself with it, and the burden is lightened by the sense of companionship. Never disassociate yourself from the burden.

Have You Ever Felt The Hurt Of The Lord?

Friday, January 10, 2014
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Word of the Day

Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. Jesus said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me?" John 21:17 Have you ever felt the hurt of the Lord to the uncovered quick, the place where the real sensitiveness of your life is lodged? The devil never hurts there, neither sin nor human affection hurts there, nothing goes through to that place but the word of God. "Peter was grieved because Jesus said unto him the third time..." He was awakening to the fact that in the real true center of his personal life he was devoted to Jesus, and he began to see what the patient questioning meant. There was not the slightest strand of delusion left in Peter's mind, he never could be deluded again. There was no room for passionate utterance, no room for exhilaration or sentiment. It was a revelation to him to realize how much he did love the Lord, and with amazement he said, "Lord, Thou knowest all things." Peter began to see how much he did love Jesus; but he didn't say, "Look at this or that to confirm it." Peter was beginning to discover to himself how much he did love the Lord, that there was no one in heaven above or upon earth beneath beside Jesus Christ; but he didn't know it until the probing, hurting questions of the Lord came. The Lord's questions always reveal me to myself.
     The patient directness and skill of Jesus Christ with Peter! Our Lord never asks questions until the right time. Rarely, but probably at least once, He will get us into a corner where He will hurt us with his undeviating questions, and we will realize that we do love Him far more deeply than any profession can ever show.   

The Afterwards Of The Life Of Power

Thursday, January 9, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards." John 13:36 And when He had spoken this, He saith unto him, "Follow Me." Three years before, Jesus had said, "Follow Me," and Peter had followed easily, the fascination of Jesus was upon him, he did not need the Holy Spirit to help him to do it. Then he came to the place where he denied Jesus, and his heart broke. Then he received the Holy Spirit, and now Jesus says again, "Follow Me." There is no figure in front now saying the Lord Jesus Christ. The first "Follow Me" had nothing mystical in it, it was and external following; now it is a following in internal martyrdom.
     Between these times Peter had denied Jesus with oaths and curses, he had come to the end of himself and all his self-sufficiency, there was not one strand of himself he would ever rely upon again, and in his destination he was in a fit condition to receive an impartation from the risen Lord. "He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." No matter what changes God has wrought in you, never rely upon them, build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
      All our vows and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to carry them out. When we have come to the end of ourselves, not in imagination but really, we are able to receive the Holy Spirit. "Receive ye the Holy Ghost", the idea is that of invasion. There is only one lodestar in the life now, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Unbelievable Quest

Wednesday, January 8, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Feed My sheep." John 21:17 This is love in the making. The love of God is un-made, it is God's nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit He unites is with God so that His love is manifested in us. When the soul is united to God by the indwelling Holy Spirit, that is not the end: the end is that we may be one with the Father as Jesus was. What kind of oneness had Jesus Christ with the Father? Such a oneness that the Father sent Him down here to be spent for us, and He says, " As the Father hath sent Me, even so send I you."
     Peter realizes now with the revelation of the Lord's hurting question that he does love Him; then comes the point, "Spend it out." Don't testify how much you love Me, don't profess about the marvelous revelation you have had, but, "Feed My sheep." And Jesus has some extraordinarily funny sheep, some bedraggled, dirty sheep, some awkward, butting sheep, some sheep that have gone astray. It is impossible to weary God's love, and it is impossible to weary that love in me if it springs from the one center. The love of God pays no attention to the distinction made by natural individuality. If I love my Lord I have no business to be guided by natural temperament; I have to feed His sheep. There is no relief and no release from this commission. Beware of counterfeiting the love of God by working along the line of natural human sympathy, because that will end in blaspheming the love of God.

Inspired Invincibility

Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me." Matthew 11:29 "Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with HIm, and we groan and say, "O Lord, let me be like other people!" Jesus is asking us to take one end of the yoke, "My yoke is easy, get alongside Me and we will pull together."Are you identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God for the pressure of His hand.
     "To them that have no might He increaseth strength." God comes and takes us out of our sentimentality, and our complaining turns into a paean of praise. The only way to know the strength of God is to take the yoke of Jesus upon us and learn from Him.
     "The joy of the Lord is your strength." Where do the saints get that joy from? If we did not know some saints, we would say, "Oh, he, or she, has nothing to bear." Lift the veil. The fact that the peace and the light and the joy of God are there is proof that the burden is there too. The burden God places squeezes the grapes and out comes the wine; most of us see the wine only. No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.
     If you have the whine in you, kick it out ruthlessly. It is a positive crime to be weak in God's strength. 

The Relapse Of Concentration

Sunday, January 5, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days." II Chronicles 15:17 Asa was incomplete in his external obedience, he was right in the man but not entirely right. Beware of the thing of which you say, "Oh, that does not matter much." The fact that it does not matter much to you may mean that it matters a very great deal to God. Nothing is a light matter with a child of God. How much longer are some of us going to keep God trying to teach us one thing? He never loses patience.  You say, "I know I am right with God"; but still the "high places"  remain, there is something over which you have not obeyed. Are you protesting that your heart is right with God, and yet is there something in your life about which He has caused you to doubt? Whenever there is doubt, quit immediately, no matter what it is. Nothing is a mere detail.
     Are there some things in connection with your bodily life, your intellectual life, upon which you are not concentrating at all? You are all right in the main but you are slipshod; there is a relapse on the line of concentration. You no more need a holiday from spiritual concentration than your heart needs a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to "clear the numberless ascensions" in about two minutes.

Can A Saint Slander God?

Saturday, January 4, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen." II Corinthians 1:20 Jesus told the parable of the talents recorded in Matthew 25 as a warning that it is possible for us to misjudge our capacity. This parable has not to do with natural gifts, but with the Pentecostal gifts of the Holy Spirit. We must not measure our spiritual capacity by education or by intellect; our  capacity in spiritual things is measured by the promises of God. If we get less than God wants us to have, before long we will slander Him as the servant slandered his master: "You expect more than You give me power to do; You demand too much of me, I cannot stand true to You where I am placed." When it is a question of God's Almighty Spirit, never say, " I can't." Never let the limitation of natural ability come in. If we have received the Holy Spirit, God expects the work of the Holy Spirit to be manifested in us.
     The servant justified himself in everything he did and condemned his lord on every point- "Your demand is out of all proportion to what you give." Have we been slandering God daring to worry what He has said: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you?" Worrying means exactly what this servant implied - " I haven't had a decent chance," and the one who is lazy spiritually is captious with God. Lazy people always strike out on an independent line.
     Never forget that our capacity in spiritual matters is measured by the promises of God. Is God able to fulfill His promises? Our answer depends on whether we have received the Holy Spirit. 

The Initiative Against Despair

Friday, January 3, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Great I hope. "Rise, let us be going." Matthew 26:46 The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say, "It's all up now, it's no use trying any more." If we imagine that this kind of despair is exceptional, we are mistaken, it is a very ordinary human experience. Whenever we realize that we have not done that which we had a magnificent opportunity of doing, then we are apt to sink into despair, and Jesus Christ comes and says, "Sleep on now, that opportunity is lost forever, you cannot alter it, but arise and go to the next thing." Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ, and go into the irresistible future with Him.
     There are experiences like this in each of our lives. We are in despair, the despair that comes from actualities, and we can't lift ourselves out of it. The disciples in this instance had done a downright unforgivable thing; they had gone to sleep instead of watching with Jesus, but He came with a spiritual initiative against their despair and said, "Arise and do the next thing." If we are inspired of God, what is the next thing? To trust him absolutely ad to pray on the ground of His redemption. Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.

Don't Duck Your Destiny

Thursday, January 2, 2014
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 Think about what you wanted to be when you were a child. Did you ever want to be an astronaut or a baseball player? Instead you grew up, maybe got married, and now work a 9-5 job somewhere. Not what you anticipated is it? Sometimes we get stuck in a rut, and ask ourselves how we ended up where we are. It looks like things will never change for the betterment of our happiness. But the good news is that God has plan for your life. A plan of salvation, peace, love and joy. He wants all of His children to be happy and successful. In order to access this plan, we must ask ourselves are we spending time with the Lord? Are we praying everyday in songs and hymns and praising and worshiping Him? The first important thing we must do to tap into what God has in store for us is to go to Him earnestly and ask Him to reveal His plan for us. Ask the Holy Spirit to come and live in our lives and comfort us. Ask for the fruit of the Spirit. The second thing we must do is to wait patiently, expecting an answer. If you pray, believing with all your heart that you have received it, then it will come to pass. Now, look to everything, the Bible, another book, a t.v. show, the sky, another person, for the answer.
     Often times, when we are looking for an answer, it seems that God puts something else in our path, and we think, I can't handle much more, my plate is already full. What God is doing is not distracting you by giving you another problem to solve, because, let's face it, we can't solve anything without Him anyway. On the contrary, God has opened our eyes to the answer if we will but only look. God is not going to lead you astray, and He is not going to close one door without opening another. It has been said, that the best way to stop thinking about our problems is to focus our attention on one in need and pray for them. Then your heavenly Father will look down on you with a smile and reward you.
     God has a special plan for each of us. A future filled with smiles and laughter. If you don't like your current situation, go to God and ask Him what needs to be done to change what you don't like. Then keep praying. Don't give up. Rest your peace in the Lord, knowing that He works all things for the glory of His Father in the Kingdom of Heaven. And all things shall come to pass. Remember, the Lord does not give us more than we can handle, and the problem that you are facing will pass. 

     

Happy New Year!

Wednesday, January 1, 2013
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Thank you Jesus for all your blessings! Praise the Lord!

We give you all the glory! You are worthy to be praised!

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     Hi everyone! How are you? Wonderful I hope. Happy New Year! I hope everyone is enjoying their new year. "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come".  Matthew 24:14  Every year many people make a new years resolution to eat better, lose wight, stop smoking, go to church more, read the Bible or be a better person. But just being a better person will not get us into heaven. First, we must have Jesus in our heart as our Lord and Savior. Second, we must have a more intimate, personal relationship with Him on a daily basis. Third, His commandment is that as a Christian, we must go unto all the world and preach the Gospel. Now, I know that some of you may not be able to travel to Ethiopia. I'm not asking you to go to some poverty stricken world and feed the hungry if you couldn't afford it. No, instead I'm encouraging you to go to the grocery store, the park, your church, or your job and find someone that needs to be uplifted by the Word of God. This may be someone you know or a complete stranger. Always be led by the Holy Spirit, and go earnestly, knowing that you are serving your Lord by
spreading God's love. It may be someone that is going through a divorce, just lost a loved one, or maybe someone that needs to come back to Jesus. These people need encouragement and the love of God to get them through, and it is our right to make sure that they are fed spiritually. You don't have to be a preacher of a church; it just has to come from the heart. They are so many people that are hurting from all kinds of depression and sickness and disease and pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24) 

     Paul was jailed for his act of love towards others in preaching the Gospel. In these end times, things are not going to get any better, only worse. These things must happen before the Son of God returns. Many will be jailed and murdered for the sake of Jesus. So, we must make haste and not waste any time. We can't wait till things are better in our own life, before we decide to bring someone to the Lord. We must act now. If you want a happier, more healthier, productive life, one enriched and blessed with favor and grace, then we must remember what the Lord's greatest commandment is, to love one another. In order to love someone, you go out of your way to make that person feel wanted and needed and special. We might give them a gift, or buy them lunch. But, we must not forget that it is our job to tell others about Christ and how He died on the cross for our sins to be forgiven, our bodies to be healed and for salvation. 

      When all the world knows about Jesus Christ, and has the free-will to choose whether they accept Him as their Lord and Savior or not, then the world will see Him coming in the clouds to bring His people back home to the kingdom of heaven.