Category: comfort

The Enchanter

May 8, 2023 testadmin

Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence
on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they
are wayward and speak lies.

Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed
the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.

Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O Lord, the fangs
of the lions!

Let them vanish like water that flows away…

Then men will say, “Surely the righteous still are
rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”

Psalm 58:1-7; 11

Step By Step

February 25, 2023 testadmin
                                                                                                                                                                                                Sarah Moon

There is a guide that never falters,
And when He leads I cannot stray,
For step by step He goes before me,
And marks my path, He knows the way.

 

Oft-times the path grows dim and dreary,
The darkness hides the cheering ray,
Still I will trust, tho’ worn and weary,
My Saviour leads, He knows the way.

                                                                                                                                          Joel Robison

He knows the evils that surround me,
The turnings that would lead astray,
No foes of night can ere confound me,
For Jesus leads, He knows the way.

                                                                                                                          A.B. Ackley

 

                 Streams in the Desert Volume 2 by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman  February 7th

 

Life of the Soul

October 8, 2022 testadmin

My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise renews my life.

Psalm 119: 50

“Thy word hath quickened me.”

It is a reviving comfort which quickeneth the soul.
Many times we seem to be dead to all spiritual operations,
our affections are damped and discouraged; but the word of
God puts life into the dead, and relieveth us in our greatest distresses.

Sorrow worketh death, but joy is the life of the
soul. Now, when dead in all sense and feeling, ” the just shall
live by faith” (Hab.ii:4), and the hope wrought in us by the
Scriptures is “a lively hope” (1Peter.i:3). Other things skin
the wound, but our sore breaketh out again, and runneth;

faith penetrateth into the inwards of a man,
doth good for the heart; and the soul reviveth
by waiting upon God, and gets life and strength.

-Thomas Manton (1620-1677)

The Treasury of David Classic Reflections of the Wisdom of the Psalms

by Charles H. Spurgeon p.245