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God’s Will For Us

August 29, 2022 testadmin

Jesus answered, “You would have no power
over me if it were not given you from above.”
John 19:11

One who was passing through deep waters of affliction
wrote to a friend: “ Is it not a glorious thing to
know that, no difference how unjust a thing may be,
or how absolutely it may seem to be from Satan, by
the time it reaches us it is God’s will for us, and
will work for good to us? For all things work together
for good to us who love God.

And even of the betrayal,
Christ said,
“The cup which my Father gave me, shall I not drink it?”

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center
of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan, through
others’ sin, can hurl against us are not only powerless
to harm us, but are turned into blessings on the way. -H.W.S.

from Streams in the Desert Volume 1 by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman – August 14th

Powerful Delusion

August 18, 2022 jakin7

They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:10b

For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion

so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
2 Thessalonians 2: 11, 12

” Their sin is this: They believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness: they did not love the truth, and therefore they did not believe it;

and, because they did not believe the truth, therefore they had pleasure in unrighteousness, or in wicked actions, and were pleased with false notions.

Note, An erroneous mind and vicious life often go together and help forward one another.

Their ruin is thus expressed: God shall send them strong delusions, to believe a lie.

Thus he will punish men for their unbelief, and for their dislike of the truth and love to sin and wickedness; not that God is the author of sin, but in righteousness he sometimes withdraws his grace from such sinners as are here mentioned; he gives them over to Satan, or leaves them to be deluded by his instruments;

he gives them up to their own hearts’ lusts, and leaves them to themselves, and then sin will follow of course, yea, the worst of wickedness, that shall end at last in eternal damnation. God is just when he inflicts spiritual judgments here, and eternal punishments hereafter, upon those who have no love to the truths of the gospel,

who will not believe them, nor live suitably to them, but indulge false doctrines in their minds, and wicked practices in their lives and conversation.”

from Matthew Henry’s Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 2:11,12

 

But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:13

” When we hear of the apostasy of many, it is a great comfort and joy, that there is a remnant according to the election of grace, which does and shall persevere; especially we should rejoice, if we have reason to hope that we are of that number. The preservation of the saints, is because God loved them with an everlasting love, from the beginning of the world.”

from Matthew Henry’s Commentary on  2 Thessalonians  2:13

 

This  blog was originally posted on November 23, 2020. It bares repeating.

 

 

 

 

Why Not My Little Small World?

August 1, 2022 testadmin

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image,
in our likeness, and let them rule over
the fish of the sea and the birds of the air,
over the livestock, over all the earth,
and over all the creatures that move along the
ground.”

So God created man in his own image, in the
image of God he created him; male and female
he created them.

Genesis 1:26-27

Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Job 11:7

Sing to God, sing praise to his name, extol him
who rides on the clouds-His name is the Lord-
and rejoice before him.
Psalm 68:4

The earth trembled and quaked, the foundations of
the heavens shook;
they trembled because he was angry. Smoke rose from
his nostrils; consuming fire came from his mouth,
burning coals blazed out of it.

He parted the heavens and came down; dark clouds
were under his feet. He mounted the cherubim and
flew; he soared on the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his canopy around him—the dark
rain clouds of the sky.

Out of the brightness of his presence bolts of lightning
blazed forth.

The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most
High resounded.

2 Samuel 22:8-14

The Spirit of God

July 30, 2022 testadmin

This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ
has come in the flesh is from God,

but every spirit that does not acknowledge
Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of
the antichrist, which you have heard is coming
and even now is already in the world.

1 John 4:2,3

Seek Me

July 29, 2022 testadmin

 

You will seek me and find me

when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

Great Work of God

July 19, 2022 testadmin

 

There are three stages in every great work of God:

 

first it is impossible,

then it is difficult,

then it is done.”

 

Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)

From Bad to Worse

June 30, 2022 testadmin

 

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in
Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and
impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and
being deceived.

But as for you, continue
in what you have learned and have become convinced of,

because you know those from whom you learned it, and
how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures,
which are able to make you wise for salvation through
faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:12-15

Just To Realize

June 27, 2022 testadmin

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”

“Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true,
but many other things are believed simply because they have
been asserted repeatedly.”
Thomas Sowell

 

 

O Death

June 22, 2022 testadmin

When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable,
and the mortal with immortality,
then the saying that is written will come true:

“Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is
your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is
the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves
fully to the work of the Lord,
because you know that your labor in the Lord
is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 15:54-58

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Psalm 42:1,2

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Psalm 116:15

 

Songs Across The Storm

June 18, 2022 testadmin

“A harp stood in the moveless air,

Where showers of sunshine washed a thousand fragrant blooms;

A traveler bowed with loads of care
Essayed from the morning till the dusk of evening glooms

To thrum sweet sounds from the songless strings;

The pilgrim strives in vain with each unanswering chord,
Until the tempest’s thunder sings,    
And, moving on the storm, the fingers of the Lord
A wondrous melody awakes;

 

And though the battling winds their soldier deeds perform,

 

Their trumpet-sound brave music makes

 

While God’s assuring voice sings love across the storm.”

                                    anonymous