God is in the daily details A.B Simpson

We can bring Christ into common things as fully as into what we call religious services. It would seem that the highest application of divine grace is to bring it down to the ordinary matters of life. God is, therefore, far more honored in this than even in things that are more especially sacred. In Romans 12, which is the manual of practical consecration, just after the apostle speaks of ministering in sacred things, he begins to discuss the common, social and secular affairs into which we are to bring our consecration principles. We read: Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord (vv. 10-11). God wanted the Levites scattered all over the cities of Israel. He wants our workshops, factories, kitchens, nurseries, editors' rooms and printing offices as much as our pulpits and prayer closets. He wants us to be just as holy at high noon on Monday or Wednesday as in the sanctuary on Sunday morning. Call not thou common-Acts 10:15. There is nothing unclean of itself -Romans 14:14

 

HIM 2 Tim 1:12 by Gene Kissinger

2 Timothy 1:12, where it says, "For the which cause I also suffer these things. Nevertheless, I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed it And I'm persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day." 

    There was a pastor that said he had a grandma that was mighty in the word she had memorized chapters and chapters of the Word of God. As time went on, she developed dementia, probably we would call it Alzheimers today, and she started slipping in her ability to remember really anything or anyone. And even the chapters of the Bible begin to slip away. But this verse was one that stayed with her for longer than any other verse.  Eventually she got where she could only remember the latter part of it says, "For I know whom I have believed  and am persuaded the that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day". Then she even forgot more as time went on. And she kept saying,  "have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against that day". And then she just kept remembering... "unto him against that day," until finally, the only thing that she could remember at the end of her life before she passed on to be with Jesus was "him."  She kept repeating that, him, him, him, her life was all about Jesus and the last thing that she could remember, and the only thing that she could remember was Jesus.

    

    Whenever you come to the end of yourself and the end of everything that you know, always remember him. Whenever the waves are over your head, always remember that those waves are under his feet because he can walk on water. When the circumstances are out of your control. Remember that he holds the stars in the palm of his hand, and he's got this. When things are worrying you and distressing, you understand that you've got a God that stays up all night long and he takes the nightwatch so that you can lay down and sleep at night and rest because he gives it his beloved sleep. When you feel all alone because everybody in the world has left you and has betrayed you.  They've done their own thing at your expense. Remember that Jesus Christ died on the cross to cover your expense. He died on the cross for your sins.  Then he offers you the gift of eternal life as a result of his death on the cross. 

    We serve a wet water walking, blind man healing, never dying, sanctifying, prayer hearing, spirit filling, sky splitting, soon coming, King, and we need to never forget him. He's done everything for you. What are you willing to do for him today? Can you remember him? I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed onto him against that day.

    Let's pray.

     Dear Lord God, I thank you for this day. I pray that you would be with these under the sound of my voice I I thank you for them and I thank you for their love for you. I pray that they would never allow that to fade and never allow their focus to get off of you, never allow their memory of you to fade. Let us learn, "For this. We have Jesus" for the trials of life. We have Jesus for the good times in life we have Jesus. Help us to remember him and all that we do. Thank you for your goodness to us God in Jesus name, amen. God bless you have a great night.

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This Man Receivs sinners Lk15:2 Spurgeon

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This man receiveth sinners.”

Luke 15:2

Observe the condescension of this fact. This Man, who towers above all other men, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners—this Man receiveth sinners. This Man, who is no other than the eternal God, before whom angels veil their faces—this Man receiveth sinners. It needs an angel’s tongue to describe such a mighty stoop of love. That any of us should be willing to seek after the lost is nothing wonderful—they are of our own race; but that he, the offended God, against whom the transgression has been committed, should take upon himself the form of a servant, and bear the sin of many, and should then be willing to receive the vilest of the vile, this is marvellous.

“This Man receiveth sinners”; not, however, that they may remain sinners, but he receives them that he may pardon their sins, justify their persons, cleanse their hearts by his purifying word, preserve their souls by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, and enable them to serve him, to show forth his praise, and to have communion with him. Into his heart’s love he receives sinners, takes them from the dunghill, and wears them as jewels in his crown; plucks them as brands from the burning, and preserves them as costly monuments of his mercy. None are so precious in Jesus’ sight as the sinners for whom he died. When Jesus receives sinners, he has not some out-of-doors reception place, no casual ward where he charitably entertains them as men do passing beggars, but he opens the golden gates of his royal heart, and receives the sinner right into himself—yea, he admits the humble penitent into personal union and makes him a member of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. There was never such a reception as this! This fact is still most sure this evening, he is still receiving sinners: would to God sinners would receive him.

 

With Us. A.B Simpson

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We often ask the question, "Why didn't God help me sooner?" It is not His order. He must first adjust us to the situation and cause us to learn our lesson from it. His promise is, I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. He first must be with us in the trouble until we grow quiet. Then He will take us out of it. This will not come until we have stopped being restless and fretful about it and have become calm and trustful. Then He will say, "It is enough." God uses trouble to teach His children precious lessons. They are intended to educate us. When their good work is done, a glorious recompense will come to us through them. He does not regard them as difficulties but as opportunities. They have come to give God a greater interest in us and to show how he can deliver us from them. Without difficulties we cannot have a mercy worth praising God for. God is as deep, and long, and high as our little world of circumstances. I will be with him in trouble -Psalm 91:15

sweeter days by Adrian Rogers

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Love Worth Finding
Every Day Can Be Sweeter Than the Day Before

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts…” (Hebrews 3:15)
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
We hear people say, "Well, get right with God—you may die." Let me change that: "Get right with God—you may live." And if you live, you can live with Jesus.

Don't get the idea that being a Christian is paying some sort of penalty to get into Heaven…like taking bad medicine to get well. You don't like the way it tastes, but you choke it down.

I would be a Christian even if there were no Heaven or Hell, just to be able to serve the Lord Jesus Christ in this life. Now, there is a Heaven and there is a Hell, but serving Jesus is so wonderful, I’d do it even if there weren’t. Jesus said, “I have come that you might have life, and… have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

Oh, there are sorrows. We have troubles. Persecutions, certainly. Unsaved people have them too. But God’s child has Someone to bring his sorrows to. A Christian has a hope and a strength and looks forward to the day when there'll be no more sorrows, no more suffering when Jesus takes every tear and turns it to a pearl; the day He takes every hurt and turns it to a hallelujah.

ACTION POINT:
We have a loving Savior. How wonderful to know the Lord Jesus Christ in this life. Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before. Get right with God now, because you may live.

sincere by Gene Kissinger

God's design and desire is that we build Sterling reputations and character,  by being exactly who we say we are. That means that we live with integrity. Integrity comes from the word integer. And it means one, not duplicitous, not double, not hypocritical. The word hypocritical. Is comes from the the Greek masks of drama and comedy, one smiling and one frowning or crying. And it means one who wears a mask. So integrity is the opposite of hypocrisy. And what God wants from us as BORN AGAIN believers is that we be individuals who have a sterling integrity, where we mean what we say we say what we mean. We are to live where we are the same no matter who we're around, no matter what the crowd is doing. We live with integrity. 

 Another of the words that we use to describe integrity is also sincerity. Sincerity, the English word comes from two Latin words sin, cera, "without wax." And what it goes back to is back in the day, when the Greeks would sell a statue that they'd carved in marble, the unscrupulous sculptor, if he'd made a mistake and cracked the marble,  would fill the crack in the marble with wax, which was "cera".  In order for the reputable Carver's,  to sell their works, they would put it out into the sunshine, were any cracks, any wax would melt away, and they had a sign that said, "sin cera" without wax, that there was no fraudulent stuff going on. It was exactly as you see it, there wasn't cover up or putty or bondo, or you know, carpenters filler. It was exactly as it said it was.  

 Are you "sin Cera"

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Rejoicing in trouble by Dr. Paul Chappell

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Rejoicing in Trouble

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"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you."

Matthew 5:10-12

John Bunyan, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, was repeatedly jailed for refusing to take a license to preach from the Church of England. He insisted on the truth that his authority came from God and not from man. From jail, Bunyan began his famous book as a way to convey truth to his children while he was separated from them by his stand for what was right. He was falsely accused of many things, but it did not shake his resolve.

Bunyan said, “Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.”

It is normal for us to want to be liked and accepted, but our commitment to Christ should supersede all other desires. If and when we are persecuted or criticized for doing right, we should count it an honor, rather than assuming it is a sign that we should change our position or our stand. In fact, we should celebrate the opposition we receive for doing right.

Suffering places us in the long line of heroes of the faith who have endured abuse, ridicule, and persecution for the sake of Christ and the Gospel. John Bunyan’s jailers left a license to preach by the door of his cell, telling him he had only to take it to be free. Bunyan refused and left the license there until the rats ate it. May we be that faithful.

Today's Growth Principle:
If you are suffering for doing right, rejoice and give thanks.

Rythum Of Rest Gene Kissinger

If you're one of those people that has a bias towards activity, this is for you. It certainly is for me, it's out of the gospel of Mark and it's chapter six in verse 31, it says, and he said, unto them come yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while. God wants you to rest. He designed rhythms of rest into your life. He said there were many coming and going and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 

They didn't even have time to eat. So here in Mark chapter six and verse 31, Jesus is calling the disciples apart into a desert place to rest a little bit. He was concerned that they were becoming incredibly exhausted. They were worn out by the demands of the schedule and by the people that were draining them. It's very easy in life to find yourself at that place where you're drained. I experienced that myself a number of years ago, I hit a brick wall. I'm one of those guys that I've gotta be active. 

I've got to be moving. I need to be doing something. I've got a bias towards action. Probably you're that way. There's been periods of time in my life. When I've worked two full time jobs and done ministry. For the bulk of my ministry, I was preaching over 200 times a year. I was counseling almost on a daily basis. I was making between 30 and 50 contacts a week. I mean, I was studying all the time. I was, I was visiting all the time. 

I was doing work around the house all the time. I was just never still. And God had to bring me to a place where he shut that stuff down. I mean, I hit a brick wall and I don't want you to hit that brick wall. So I want you to learn the lesson that I didn't learn. You need to build rhythms of rest into your life. Pastor Jesse sort of kidnapped me the other day and took me up cat fishing. And we had a great time. And boy, I gotta tell you, I didn't know how much I needed it until I got it. Just getting away from all of the activity. 

It wasn't for a long period of time, less than 48 hours. But boy, that was something that was restorative to my soul, getting beside some water and yanking some great, big old catfish, that just blessed my soul. You need to get quiet. You need to get away from the hassle. You need to get away from the hustle and come apart. Vance Havner, who graduated out of the same class as Billy Graham did out of Columbia Bible Institute. He was less famous, but maybe even a better preacher, he was dynamic. one of the things that he said, commenting on this passage, “come ye apart before you come apart,”. Don't, don't get a break down before you get a breakthrough of learning how to have the rhythms of rest in your life. So how do you do that in a practical way? Let me give, insight that I gained from an older preacher, 

Divert daily. That means every day, find some time to do something that you love to do that recharges you,for me, that's usually reading. 

Reading is something that recharges me. If I could live in the ideal place on the planet, I'd live inside a library. Books are something that feeds me. I love listening to stories, reading stories that recharge me. I can't always sit down and read, but I do always have audio books that I listen to, and that is restorative to me. So sometimes even when I'm doing dishes or doing some light cleanup around the house, I can listen to something that recharges me. 

Often just going down to a park, sitting and getting quiet and resting that may be restorative to your soul. That's something that maybe you need to start doing. So definitely we need to restore our souls, divert daily and then withdraw weekly for a significant period of time on the weekend. Or sometime when you can get away, get away for a few hours, maybe go catch a movie or go out on a date night with your mate, do just go. 

And what Vance Havner did is he was a birdwatcher. And so he kept a book where he journaled and kept the track of the birds that he saw. And whenever he would go to preach someplace, he would always take some time away to do birdwatching in that new place. Wade Jernigan who built the Free Will Baptist church here in Jerome and about 20 other churches across the United States of America. For him, it was fishing no matter where he would go, he would spend some time fishing. And that was one of the primary places that God fed his soul. 

And he did a mighty work for God. They're literally churches across the United States that happened because this man understood how to build rhythms of rest, into a very busy life, abandon annually, divert daily, withdraw weekly, abandon annually every year, get a vacation. I violated this in ministry. There, there were years that I didn't go anywhere. I didn't do anything. And it was a mistake and I've confessed, and repented of. 

And I believe that God wants me to build a rhythm, a pace of grace that I can keep until I die. And that's my intention. Now I, God has allowed me to do this ministry where I'm doing devotions daily and I've been able to do some pulpit preaching, but I need to find a pace of grace that I can keep until I die. One that won't wear me out or burn me out. I don't believe God wants that. Well, anyway, that's the nightlight for tonight coming apart and rest, take some time to rest, take some time every day to breathe. 

And to be in that moment, don't try to think about the future. Don't fret over the past. Try to be in that moment. So I'm in this beautiful park. The sun is filtering down through the trees and it's just dropped dead gorgeous. I need to take a little bit of time before I go home to kind of breathe deep and listen to a little canal. That's flowing over here to the side of me and listening to that water and feeling that sunshine on my face and just let rest,come to my soul. I think maybe you need that to maybe go down to a little park, get some rest, but somehow divert daily, withdraw weekly and abandon annual let's pray. 

Dear Lord, God, I thank you for this day. And I thank you for these dear ones that are listening to my voice right now. And I pray that they would not make the same life mistakes that I made God, I Lord, you know, that I was having panic attacks and I thought I was having a heart attack. I thought I was dying in God. And you had to do that to slow me down. I just pray that you would help them to learn this lesson now that they might be effective for you over a lifetime. And that they would really enjoy each moment of each day and not just live at the next appointment or the next counseling session or the next sermon. 

But instead let them be rested and refreshed and ready to communicate your word to a tense world, help us to get relaxed so that we can speak to the tense around us. Give us your strength in Jesus name. Amen. 

faint yet perusing A.B Simlson

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It is a good thing to learn to depend upon God to work through our feeble resources and yet, while so depending, to be absolutely faithful and diligent and not allow our trust to deteriorate into indolence. We find no sloth or negligence in Gideon or his three hundred; though they were weak and few, they were completely loyal, and everything in them-down to their last breath-was ready for God to use. Faint, yet pursuing was their watchword as they followed and finished their glorious victory. They did not rest until the last of their enemies was destroyed, and even their false friends were punished for their treachery and unfaithfulness. God still calls the weakest instruments. When, however, he chooses and enables them, they are no longer weak but mighty through God (2 Corinthians 10:4) and faithful through His grace to every trust and opportunity. "They trust," as Dr. Chalmers used to say, "as though all depended upon God, and work as though all depended upon themselves." Teach me, my blessed Master, to trust and obey. Faint, yet pursuing -Judges 8:4

The Sword Of The Lord and Of Gideon C.H Spurgeon

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The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.”

Judges 7:20

Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon! the sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” This is precisely what all Christians must do. First, you must shine; break the pitcher which conceals your light; throw aside the bushel which has been hiding your candle, and shine. Let your light shine before men; let your good works be such, that when men look upon you, they shall know that you have been with Jesus. Then there must be the sound, the blowing of the trumpet. There must be active exertions for the ingathering of sinners by proclaiming Christ crucified. Take the gospel to them; carry it to their door; put it in their way; do not suffer them to escape it; blow the trumpet right against their ears. Remember that the true war-cry of the Church is Gideon’s watchword, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” God must do it, it is his own work. But we are not to be idle; instrumentality is to be used—“The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” If we only cry, “The sword of the Lord!” we shall be guilty of an idle presumption; and if we shout, “The sword of Gideon!” alone, we shall manifest idolatrous reliance on an arm of flesh: we must blend the two in practical harmony, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” We can do nothing of ourselves, but we can do everything by the help of our God; let us, therefore, in his name determine to go out personally and serve with our flaming torch of holy example, and with our trumpet tones of earnest declaration and testimony, and God shall be with us, and Midian shall be put to confusion, and the Lord of hosts shall reign forever and ever.

 

Quarter Prov 17:22 Gene Kissinger

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The Quarter story. redeeming the time brothers podcast a podcast by Gene Kissinger and Norman Kissinger, two brothers who spent their lives in ministry and raising large families our desire is to provide a digital place for those who long to belong and as always, we want to leave a nightlight on for you.

that nightlight is at a Proverbs chapter 17 and verse 22, where it talks about the the benefits of a happy spirit, a merry heart doeth good like medicine but a broken spirit dries the bones, a merry heart doeth good like medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

He's talking here about the benefits of joy and having happiness as a hallmark of your life. Being a winsome witness for Christ. By having a light heart instead of being dreary toward everybody that's around you. Some people are just like a continual drip, drip, drip. They're full of sadness and despair and depression and God wants us to have joy Now that doesn't mean there are not sad moments or difficult issues in life, but they're also always good things that are going on around us
blessed things,
hopeful things,
wonderful things.
I remember listening to Norman Cousins. He wrote a book called headfirst he had he had received two different incurable diagnoses from doctors. He used humor as one of the medicine protocols to bring himself to the place of wellness. The doctors said there was nothing they could do for him. He rented Three Stooges videos and various other things that he thought was funny. This was back in the time when they had reel to reel kind of film, and he would watch that and  laughter he found allowed him to be pain free. And and ultimately he got cured from these two terminal diagnoses. And he wrote a book called headfirst abiut it. In it he talks about being asked by a group of physicians to come and talk to some cancer patients that they wanted to give these patients at least Some hope and to lighten their day and cousins was a pretty funny guy.  So he's up in front of these cancer patients,  And he's talking about going up to a payphone. Now, you guys that are younger, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. But those of you that have got a few years behind, those with a few miles on your odometer,  know what a payphone was. It was the way we used to communicate when we were out and about and we needed to call home or call a store or whatever, we didn't have a cell phone in our pocket. And so we had to go plug a quarter  into the payphone and then make a phone call.  You needed a quarter, It was kind of a survival tool, so that you could make an emergency call if you needed to. Well, cousins put his only quarter in this payphone and it didn't connect him to the number and so he needed the quarter back and so he called the operator and the operator gave him the runaround, you know, like they do at a company, there's always a procedure for how to do the thing at the company, if you feel like you've been taken advantage of, they'll take your name and your address and they'll send you the refund. And he explained to her the stamp and the envelope would cost more than a quarter. He just wanted her to make the pay phone give the quarterback  so he can make his phone call.  He then said, you add the price of the person that licked the envelope and the stamp and  and so on. When he explained to her it would cost the company far more money than for her to just make the machine give him back his quarter so he can make his next phone call. And she's finally reiterating how we can't do that. This is how it's done. And then she said have you pushed the plunger, the coin return plunger? And he said no that he hadn't, he reached up and he pulled it down and $4 worth of quarter's fell out of the machine. I mean, it's raining quarters. It's like a slot machine paid off. Quarters pourung down on the on the floor of the phone booth.

The operator says, sir, I'm gonna need you to put those coins back in, return those coins into the phones coin slot. He said give me your name and address and I'll send the quarters to you.  When the cancer patients heard  the funny line, the payoff to it, they roared with laughter and cheered and, and then after he was done, the doctors, the physicians got up and asked them how many of you really enjoyed this and really laughed when Norman was telling you about the quarter story and they raised their hand then he said, How many of you experienced little pain or no pain while he was telling the story and they raised their hands almost unanimously. That laughter gave them pain relief, a little bit of laughter can give you 15 minutes pain free.  I don't know if it's endorphins or what,  I don't know the biological process of it, But laughter is indeed medicine to your soul,  medicine to your body. You and I need to learn To have joy again.

l I'm in the last quarter of my life, the last half that for sure.  I'm going to be holy, I'm determined that I'm going to live a life that's well pleasing to God. And I want to live well,  I want to finish Well, I don't just want to have started well, I want to finish well, but beyond that, I want to be happy. I want to be ridiculously, joyfully, full of the Spirit of God. You know the word enthusiasm. It's "en theos," it means to be filled with God. There should be nobody more filled with joy and filled with God than you and I who are born again. Blood bought, spirit filled, believers who've had our eternal destiny settled forever by Jesus Christ and His work on the cross.  All we had to do to enter into it was give him the mess that was our sins, and received from him the gift of eternal life.

The joy of the Lord is our strength. You and I, we've got lost, unsaved friends and family members, we're probably not going to win them, by browbeating them, you know we're going to win them is by demonstrating what the joy the Lord looks like and inviting them to come into that relationship so that they too can have the joy of the Lord in their life.  So that they can have their eternal destiny settled forever. Well, guys, we need to close our time together and prayer. Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I thank you for this day and I thank you for the truth that indeed a merry heart doeth good like
Medicine. It is a medicine to our soul, our distressed soul, because of our sin God, we need to know that we can get forgiveness and we can have cleansing and we can have joy that flows from your throne, restore unto us, The joy of our salvation as King David said.  Allow us God, to have a happy heart as we enter into these last days, help us to be a winsome witness to those that are around about what the benefits are of being a blood bought Born Again, spirit filled believer in Jesus. We ask this in the most holy, precious and powerful name, of Jesus amen. 

Reaching The Lost Paul Chappell

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A Motive for Reaching the Lost

by Dr. Paul Chappell

"Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences."

2 Corinthians 5:9-11

We have the certain knowledge that one day we will give an account of our lives to the Lord. That should motivate us to be faithful in obeying His commands, including the final instruction He left to, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). But in addition to obedience, there is another motive for sharing the Gospel—the knowledge that each person must stand before God either saved or lost.

Charles Spurgeon described that day this way: “If you haven’t looked at Christ on the cross, you’ll have to look at Him on the throne—with great trembling. The sacrificial death of Christ will be brought before the eyes of all who refuse to accept His free gift of forgiveness and eternal life. In Bethlehem He came in mercy to forgive sin. In the future He will come on the clouds in glory to establish justice. What will we do without a Saviour? On the day of judgment there is nothing we can do if we have not trusted Christ.”

The only hope of salvation is found though faith in Jesus Christ. There is no other way to Heaven. And God’s plan for people to hear the Good News and be saved is for His children to tell them. This is a wonderful privilege, but it is also a heavy responsibility. Remembering that judgment is coming, we should do all we can to reach the lost.

Today's Growth Principle:
Each person you meet today will one day stand before God. Have you warned them of the judgment to come

faith is the victory HEB 12:2 A.B Simpson

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HEB 12:2

Faith is the Victory
Here is the language of trust and victory. It was through this faith, as we are told in Hebrews, that in His last agony Jesus for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame (12:2). His life was a life of faith, His death was a victory of faith, His resurrection was a triumph of faith, His mediatorial reign is one long victory of faith, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool (10:13). And so, for us He has become the pattern of faith. In every situation of difficulty, temptation and distress He has gone before us, waving the banner of trust and triumph and bidding us to follow in His victorious footsteps. He is the great Pattern Believer. While we must claim our salvation by faith, the great Forerunner also claimed the world's salvation by the same faith. Let us therefore consider this glorious Leader perfect example, and as we follow close behind Him, let us remember that where He has triumphed we may triumph, too. For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and know that I shall not be ashamed. -Isaiah 50:7

Repentance. my prayer for our nation

Father please forgive our sin and heal our land. We are a people of unclean lips we have uttered vanities day after day. Our hearts have been arrogant and proud. We have exalted your creation above you and we are profoundly sorry. Lord we repent of taking innocent life in abortions. We repent of our greed and selfishness. Lord our shallow commitments to you shame us. We have made lust a new god and we have worshiped this false idol for far too long.  We cast down these high places that were raised in dishonor to you. We destroy the idol worship that has moved you off of the throne of our hearts. Lord your word says that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. God we have called good evil and evil, good just as you warned us not to do. Our God is out belly or our pleasure.  Forgive your wicked and wayward children. We are a mess God we can't even turn to you without you drawing us. Please draw us to you please heal our corrupt souls with your Holy Spirit. 

Please heal our land. Banish this pandemic, send rain down from your treasury. Put out these fires, clear our air.

Father we will declare your deliverance loud and long to this lost world. Please send revival and rain in that order God. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen

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Death is no stranger to me. 

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 the nightlight that I have for you tonight is out of Isaiah chapter 46, 

 

 hearken unto me, O house of Jacob at all you remnant of the house of Israel, which were born by me from the belly which are carried from the womb, and even to your old age I am He even to the foreheads or the gray heads, will I carry you I have made and I will bear and I will carry and we'll deliver you.

 

What a good God to offer to take us from the place of birth. To birth us, to carry us until they bury us. That's a good God. 

     I want you to know that death is a part of life, inextricably linked to life. When I was a pastor, as a pastor in the same community for nearly 30 years, I can't I can't ride down a road without looking at a house and thinking that there is somebody in that house that I either preformed a marriage or was there when they were celebrating the birth of a child, or when somebody in their family was buried. In other words, I was there. Sometimes I was there before The mortician was. When the family went through the trauma. They gave me a call and I came in and I cried with them and prayed with them. Remember a little Tevin. Tevin only lived to be about four years old. He was an amazing little man. His little mama She was the best little mama you could ever imagine. I mean that God couldn't have made a better mama than her. She loved her little baby. He had a he had a disorder that caused a hardening around his heart. And it was constricting his heart. Eventually, that's what took him.  His Mom fought for his life. I mean, fought for his life. I remember getting the call that he passed, and I drove over, came to the house in the middle of the night.  I just held him. She had not yet called  the mortician.  I just held his little body and rocked him he had passed already, He was an arms of Jesus, already in heaven. 

     

     I've helped carry people's loved ones to the hearse.  I'm no stranger to death. I've seen it. I've been Been in the room when people have passed have held their hands and cried with the family when the line went flat and There was no more breath. I'm not trying to be morbid about it but death for the believer is a doorway to heaven.  When I did little Tevin's service, I used the quote that Ronald Reagan gave when the challenger exploded. Just a matter of seconds after it lifted off.  He said "seven brave souls have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God". 

   Tevin slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God.  May Scarrow slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God. So many of my friends, they've slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God. Death is a friend for the believer. Death comes into the room and and he's one to escort you to a better place, he escorts you to heaven to be with God. That's only true if you have a saving relationship with Jesus. It is only true if you know Him as Lord and Savior. It's only true if your heart is right already. I'm afraid too many of us we live not ready. We live unprepared for that most important trip of all. If you knew you're going to make a trip and it was going to be sudden, you didn't  know exactly when it was going to happen. You would live with your bags packed.  You'd live you live with your stuff in boxes, because you'd be ready to make the trip. because it was important, and the trip is going to be an exciting trip. But the most important trip of all most people are not ready for, they've not yet trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I'd like to encourage you to do that because you never know when death will come knocking on your door and you'll be ready for that hour.

The Completion Phil 2:12-13 Gene Kissinger

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 Philippians chapter two verses 12 and 13 says 

were for my beloved as you've always obeyed not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God which works in you both to will and to do His good pleasure. 

I listened to Chuck Swindoll a lot when I was younger back when he had "insight for living" out of Fullerton California he was a pastor of a massive E.V. Free Church down there. He is great preacher he still pastors.  He's a part of a seminary now though and he's got a church, I think it's called "stone briar".

He used to tell this story about  ignacy paderewski who had a piano concert that was in a concert hall, and a mother had her young son who was learning to play the piano and she wanted to inspire him by seeing paderewski play. She wanted her son to hear a classical pianist play and put on a concert while thrilling a massive audience.

 S he took her son to see the concert and while they're waiting this spotlight is shining down on this massive beautiful grand piano. the  boy became fascinated by the piano and snuck up onto the stage while his mother was talking to the people next to her, she didn't notice until all of a sudden she heard Twinkle, twinkle little star being played up on the piano. To her horror It was her son, playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star she was chagrined, she got up and wanted to bring him down from the stage but paderewski  came out, and reached around the boy and told him keep playing, and not to stop, with his left hand he started playing out the bass  part and then with his right arm he reached around the child and started playing a running obbligato.  This child, had his "Twinkle twinkle little star"  turned into a beautiful concert piece as the master and the novice worked together. I'm so glad that even though this passage says to work out my salvation with fear and trembling, it says  in the verse immediately following, for it is God who causes us to will and to do His good pleasure, and Jesus is able to bring to completion the work that he started within you, the master composer of your life can take the feeble efforts that you and I give every day, and somehow turn it into a masterpiece by improvisation, and by the beauty of His Majesty he can do things beyond what we would ever imagined. So if you're a little frustrated with your feeble Twinkle Twinkle Little Star just know that a concert pianist better than  ignacy paderewski can make something beautiful and complete out of your life.

 Let's pray God I thank you for this day, I thank you for these are under the sound of my voice. I pray you would be with them allow them to rest well tonight. Let them know that even though they have a part and in fleshing out what the gospel looks like in their lives, that ultimately you're the one who wills and brings it about within them, as they yield to you and listen to you, moment by moment. You've been so good to us God, watch out over us in this hour, be with us as we rest tonight.

  In Jesus name, amen. God bless you.

Jesus Joy. Neh. 8:10

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That nightlight is out of the book of Nehemiah chapter eight in verse 10. It says,

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions to them. For whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto the Lord. Neither be sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

I gotta tell you in the midst of all the chaos and drama and trauma that's out there, I need a little Jesus joy. I'm talking about the kind of joy that just lifts your soul up no matter what's going on around you. I got to tell you, my eternal destiny is settled and secured because I'm smart enough to believe in the one who died on the cross, for me. I'm trusting in his merritorious work on the cross to take me straight to heaven when I die,
through no merit of my own,
through no human worth of my own through no human work of my own, through no religious, religious song and dance of my own.
I have a Jesus joy.

Handle when he was writing the Messiah, the now famous,classic, music composition. The Messiah that you hear so often, in popular media, it is a powerful piece that has spanned centuries, bringing joy to the multitudes. In writing it, a lot of people don't know that he wrote it in a three week span of time, and he wrote it almost as though God were whispering the notes in his ears. He scribbled the musical notes down furiously. Many people also don't know is that he was in the midst of losing his eyesight, experiencing a severe physical handicap at. People also don't know that he was under severe financial stress, he was on the verge of bankruptcy while composing this masterpiece. In the middle of that mess God gave him 'Handel's Messiah" that has transformed lives, and caused souls to soar. He lived to see it spread around the world and become a powerful tradition, In classical music. It is probably one of the greatest compositions that's ever been written. He said the secret to the writing was his heart was filled with joy. It was almost to the place of bursting, with joy, while he was thinking about the concept of Jesus, as messiah, and that's what translated into this powerful music. So when you hear "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth hallelujah," that was written with a Jesus joy.

Do you have a Jesus joy? You can have it just turn to him and trust in him. Let him save you from your sins. Let him wash him make it clean. He can change everything. Let's pray.

Dear Lord God, I thank you for this day and I thank you for these dear ones. Lord, so many are Looking at every where, in all the wrong places, and all the wrong faces to find joy. No matter how hard they look, no matter how long they look, they won't find it till they find a Jesus joy. There's a Jesus shaped vacuum in their life and they need to turn to you to find it. Help fill them to the place of fullness, God, wash them make them wider than snow. In Jesus name, amen.
God bless you have all.

Remembering 9/11 What mean these stones?

What mean these stones?

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I want to take a moment today to think about 911. I want to remember the lives that were lost on that tragic day, those faces are etched in my memory, as I saw the newscast. The first res-ponders those coming out of the ash carrying children and walking with people who were injured and taking out remains dead bodies. And these first res-ponders were so brave and so courageous. Remember, "it's beautiful day in the neighborhood", Mr. Rogers, he said during that same era, "whenever you have a crisis look for the people that are helping." I was just so encouraged by the people that were helping, that were throwing themselves into taking care of and helping other people. What an amazing self sacrificing thing and those of you that are first res-ponders, Thank you. Also we want to remember those who lost their lives so suddenly so tragically. In just a few minutes I'll be doing a memorial service of a young lady that passed away far too young, and those that passed away on 911, they didn't know that morning, when they got up and they went to work in those Twin Towers, or got on those airplanes, they had no idea that this would be their last day.

Their passing can remind us of multiple things, one is the brevity of life. It is a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. It's like a tale that is told, it's like a watch in the night, it's like a weaver shuttle moving back and forth, we would say today like a singer sewing machine, the needle going up and down, it passes by with such rapidity. It's a vapor that appears, and then it's gone, it's like a cloud in your coffee.

Honor life, thank God for each day that you have. Don't just sort of slog through it and just, grin and bear it. life is a gift. Don't take it for granted. Live in a way that is well pleasing to God. Milk the joy out of each day, live with integrity every day. I believe that's a message they would want you to have. One of the things that their passing teaches us is to be ever vigilant for the freedoms that we have. We are going to have a chance to vote in November. I want to encourage you to get out and vote cast your ballot, I want to encourage you to be praying for our nation. We've seen a series of disasters that have taken place in 2020. And man, it's time for us to come before God and pray a prayer of repentance as a nation. To to call on God to grant us His mercy and to turn things around for us. We need to be a people that are repenting of our sins and experiencing God's freedom and forgiveness so he can cleanse and restore our land, we desperately need that. I mean, our problems are so much deeper than just the political. We've got a sin problem. We need help. Let's pray.

Dear Lord God, I just thank you Father for the first res-ponders, those that gave their lives willingly, to go in and help those that were in this tragedy, these many years ago. What a good God you are to put that calling on that oh we thank you for them the police the firemen the paramedics God and we thank you for what they do their courage and bravery every day God. Lord, I just pray that you'd be with the families of those that lost loved ones in September 11 God, their children, their grandchildren, and others that have an empty place at a table because of what happened that day, when wicked and nefarious people took innPray,Rememberocent life. God I pray that we'd always cherish life, that we'd remember that you have given it to us, it's a gift and we should never waste it. Help us to live with integrity every day, help us to live in a close personal relationship with you. Help us to be ready for that day that you call us home God, because there's going to come a time, when it's our time to leave this planet and to stand before you. help us to be ready for that day God. I pray that you'd be with these under the sound of my voice, give them your supernatural strength in Jesus name, amen. God bless you.

God Standing With Us Paul Chappell

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"At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion."

2 Timothy 4:16-17

In the 1840s, John Geddie left the pastorate of a church in Canada to take his wife and two small children to the South Sea Islands to begin a mission work there. After a voyage of more than 20,000 miles, they arrived in the New Hebrides Islands at Aneityum. The island chain was filled with cannibals, and more than twenty crew members of a British ship had been killed and eaten just months before the Geddies arrived on the mission field.

They faced the difficulty of learning a language that had no written form and the constant threat of being killed. Slowly at first, a few converts came, and then soon many more received the Gospel. Geddie continued his ministry faithfully, including translating the entire Bible into the native language and planting twenty-five churches. For many of those years, Geddie labored with little help and little word from home, but God was faithful to His servant. In the pulpit of the church Geddie pastored for so many years stands a plaque in his honor which says: “When he landed in 1848, there were no Christians here, and when he left in 1872 there were no heathen.”

You may find yourself needing to take a stand for God without anyone else to help you, but as you stand, you will find that God is there standing with you. You are never truly alone as a child of God. Whatever He has called you to do can be accomplished through His Spirit and His power.

Today's Growth Principle:
God is always faithful to you, and you will see a harvest from your life if you are faithful to Him.

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The Center of Heaven C.H. Spurgeon

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And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.”

Revelation 4:4 

These representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne. In the passage in Canticles, where Solomon sings of the King sitting at his table, some render it “a round table.” From this, some expositors, I think, without straining the text, have said, “There is an equality among the saints.” That idea is conveyed by the equal nearness of the four and twenty elders. The condition of glorified spirits in heaven is that of nearness to Christ, clear vision of his glory, constant access to his court, and familiar fellowship with his person: nor is there any difference in this respect between one saint and another, but all the people of God, apostles, martyrs, ministers, or private and obscure Christians, shall all be seated near the throne, where they shall forever gaze upon their exalted Lord, and be satisfied with his love. They shall all be near to Christ, all ravished with his love, all eating and drinking at the same table with him, all equally beloved as his favourites and friends even if not all equally rewarded as servants. 

Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ. Let us on earth be as the elders are in heaven, sitting around the throne. May Christ be the object of our thoughts, the centre of our lives. How can we endure to live at such a distance from our Beloved? Lord Jesus, draw us nearer to thyself. Say unto us, “Abide in me, and I in you”; and permit us to sing, “His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.” 

O lift me higher, nearer thee,

And as I rise more pure and meet,

O let my soul’s humility

Make me lie lower at thy feet;

Less trusting self, the more I prove

The blessed comfort of thy love

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And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.”

Revelation 4:4 

These representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne. In the passage in Canticles, where Solomon sings of the King sitting at his table, some render it “a round table.” From this, some expositors, I think, without straining the text, have said, “There is an equality among the saints.” That idea is conveyed by the equal nearness of the four and twenty elders. The condition of glorified spirits in heaven is that of nearness to Christ, clear vision of his glory, constant access to his court, and familiar fellowship with his person: nor is there any difference in this respect between one saint and another, but all the people of God, apostles, martyrs, ministers, or private and obscure Christians, shall all be seated near the throne, where they shall forever gaze upon their exalted Lord, and be satisfied with his love. They shall all be near to Christ, all ravished with his love, all eating and drinking at the same table with him, all equally beloved as his favourites and friends even if not all equally rewarded as servants. 

Let believers on earth imitate the saints in heaven in their nearness to Christ. Let us on earth be as the elders are in heaven, sitting around the throne. May Christ be the object of our thoughts, the centre of our lives. How can we endure to live at such a distance from our Beloved? Lord Jesus, draw us nearer to thyself. Say unto us, “Abide in me, and I in you”; and permit us to sing, “His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.” 

O lift me higher, nearer thee,

And as I rise more pure and meet,

O let my soul’s humility

Make me lie lower at thy feet;

Less trusting self, the more I prove

The blessed comfort of thy love

Strong Enough by Adrian Rogers

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Stop Agonizing Over if You Are Strong Enough

BIBLE MEDITATION:
“Then they remembered that God was their rock and the Most High God their Redeemer.” (Psalm 78:35)
DEVOTIONAL THOUGHT:
It’s amazing—the things the devil will try just to get you to examine yourself and start doubting. You say, "Well, I know I'm saved.” The devil replies, "No, you're not." "Why? Why am I not saved? I believe in Jesus." "Oh, yeah, a person’s saved by faith in Jesus,” the devil says, “but YOUR faith isn’t good enough."

Has that devil ever pulled that on you? "You don't believe enough. Your faith isn’t strong enough. Your faith is such a low-class faith, if it's faith at all, it's not going to get you there because you're not a true believer."

Now, how are you going to argue with the devil over that?

Here's how I do it: When the devil tells me, "Adrian Rogers, your faith is no good," you know what I say? "That's right, but isn't Jesus wonderful?"

See? "Isn't Jesus wonderful!" I'm not putting faith in faith; I'm putting faith in Jesus.

ACTION POINT:
Sometimes we hear sermons on "saving faith." There's no such thing. Faith doesn't save you; Jesus does. It’s “by grace, through faith” (See Ephesians 2:8). Faith is necessary for salvation, but you’re saved by Jesus! How much faith does it take? Just enough to say, "Lord, I trust You.” Stop agonizing over whether your faith is strong enough. Instead, when doubts arise say, “Lord, I trust You

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The secret of joy is not to wait until you feel happy, but to rise, by an act of faith, out of the depression which is dragging you down and begin to praise God as an act of choice. This is the meaning of such passages as these: Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice (Philippians 4:4). I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice (Philippians 1:18). Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations (James 1:2). In all these cases there is an evident struggle with sadness and then the triumphs of faith and praise. This is what is meant-at least in part-by the sacrifice of praise. A sacrifice is that which costs us something. And when a man or woman has some cherished grudge or wrong and is harboring it, nursing it, dwelling on it, and quite determined to enjoy a miserable time in selfish grumbling, it costs us no little sacrifice to throw off the morbid spell, to rise out of the mood of self-commiseration in wholesome and holy determination and say, I will rejoice in the Lord (Habakkuk 3:18); I will count it all joy (James 1:2). I will joy in the God of my salvation -Habakkuk 3:18

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In the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.”

Philippians 2:15

We use lights to make manifest. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. His conversation should be such that all who are about him should clearly perceive whose he is, and whom he serves; and should see the image of Jesus reflected in his daily actions. Lights are intended for guidance. We are to help those around us who are in the dark. We are to hold forth to them the Word of life. We are to point sinners to the Saviour, and the weary to a divine resting-place. Men sometimes read their Bibles, and fail to understand them; we should be ready, like Philip, to instruct the inquirer in the meaning of God’s Word, the way of salvation, and the life of godliness. Lights are also used for warning. On our rocks and shoals a light-house is sure to be erected. Christian men should know that there are many false lights shown everywhere in the world, and therefore the right light is needed. The wreckers of Satan are always abroad, tempting the ungodly to sin under the name of pleasure; they hoist the wrong light, be it ours to put up the true light upon every dangerous rock, to point out every sin, and tell what it leads to, that so we may be clear of the blood of all men, shining as lights in the world. Lights also have a very cheering influence, and so have Christians. A Christian ought to be a comforter, with kind words on his lips, and sympathy in his heart; he should carry sunshine wherever he goes, and diffuse happiness around him.

Gracious Spirit dwell with me;

I myself would gracious be,

And with words that help and heal

Would thy life in mine reveal,

And with actions bold and meek

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Debt Of Gratitude Paul Chappell

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The Debt of Gratitude
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"But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle."

2 Thessalonians 2:13-15

In 2006, the United States government received a payment of $83,250,000 from the British government. It was the final installment to pay off the loan for the military equipment and supplies furnished by America to our allies through the Lend Lease program to help them in the war against the Germans. England’s Treasury Secretary expressed his appreciation for the help so many years before and said, “It was vital support which helped Britain defeat Nazi Germany and secure peace and prosperity in the post-war period. We honor our commitments to them now as they honored their commitments to us all those years ago.”

The Apostle Paul said he was “bound to give thanks”—that he owed an obligation to be grateful—and this is true of us as well. God has done so many wonderful things for us, and none of them are deserved. Gratitude guards our hearts against pride and selfishness, for if we remember that the good things we enjoy are blessings from God rather than something we are owed, we will remain humble before Him.

It is also important for us to express our gratitude to those who have made investments in our lives. There is an old saying that applies here: “If you see a turtle sitting on a fence post, it’s pretty safe to assume he didn’t get there by himself.” Recognizing that others have helped us get to where we are, it is only right to thank them.

Today's Growth Principle:
Express your gratitude today, both to God and to those who have helped you in your life.
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