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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

The Church

June 5, 2022 testadmin

Merely to mark time in missionary work during the war is a fatal blunder.
We must go forward. Let the call of Christ be heard and heeded through
the din of the world’s conflict, and let the Church rise to a worthy
endeavor to accomplish speedily the work entrusted to her.

Rowland Bingham (1872-1942)

Great Pressure

May 29, 2022 testadmin

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers,
about the hardships we suffered in the province
of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond
our ability to endure,so that we despaired even
of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence
of death. But this happened that we might not rely on
ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

2 Corinthians 1:8,9

The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life
is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning,
and we learn better how much it is worth, and make more of it for God
and man. The pressure helps us to understand the trials of others, and
fits us to help and sympathize with them…

Trials and hard places are needed to press us forward, even as the furnace
fires in the hold of that mighty ship give force that moves the piston,drives
the engine, and propels that great vessel across the sea in the face of
the winds and waves.

-A.B. Simpson (1843-1919)

“Out of the presses of pain,
Cometh the soul’s best wine;
And the eyes that
have shed no rain,
Can shed but little shine.”

Streams in the Desert Volume One – May 18

by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman