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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Those Far From God


For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Psalms 73:27 (ESV)

How does this apply in your life? ...in the life of family members?
How can you draw near to God and encourage others to do so?
 

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Are you Near to God?

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.
Psalms 73:28 (ESV)

Monday, September 28, 2015

Do your Work for God's Glory

Work as Unto God
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men
Col 3:23 (KJV)

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Hold your Tongue

Guard your Tongue
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalms 34:12-13 (KJV)

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Take Dominion--God has commanded you to

Take Dominion
 
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 1:28 (KJV)

Friday, September 25, 2015

Get away from People and Gathered to People


Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house
Gen 12:1 (KJV)
Abraham gave up the ghost…and was gathered to his people.
Gen 25:8 (KJV)

    After all communion we dwell upon islands, dotted over a great archipelago, each upon his little rock with the sea dashing between us; but the time comes when, if our hearts are set upon that great Lord whose presence makes us one, there shall be no more sea and all the isolated rocks shall be parts of a great continent . . . If we cultivate that sense of detachment from the present and of having our true affinities in the unseen, if we dwell here as strangers because our citizenship is in heaven, then death will not drag us away from our associates nor hunt us into a lonely land, but will bring us where closer bonds shall knit the “sweet societies” together, and the sheep shall couch close by one another because all gathered round the one Shepherd. Then many a tie shall be re-woven, and the solitary wanderer meet again the dear one whom he had “loved long singe and lost awhile.” –Alex. McLaren

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Improving upon the Present for the Future

  Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord
Hosea 6:3 (KJV)

    The Lord has brought us into the pathway of the knowledge of Him, and bids us pursue that path through all its strange meanderings until it opens out upon the plain where God’s throne is. Our life is a following on to know the Lord. We marvel at some of the experiences through which we are called to pass, but afterwards we see they afforded us some new knowledge of our Lord….We have not to wait for some brighter opportunity; but by improvement of the present are to build ourselves a bridge to that future. –G Bowen

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Gospel must be Preached through our Talk AND our Walk


He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
1 John 2:6 (KJV)

   The preaching that this world needs most is the
sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
#ThoughtsfortheQuietHour

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Love that Demands our All


Love not the world
1 John 2:15 (KJV)

    Love it not, and yet love it. Love it with the love of Him who gave His Son to die for it. Love it with the love of Him who shed His blood for it. Love it with the love of angels, who rejoice in its conversion. Love it to do it good, giving  your tears to its sufferings, your pity to its sorrows, your wealth to its wants, your prayers to its miseries, and to its fields of charity, and philanthropy, and Christian piety, your powers and hours of labor. You cannot live without affecting it, or being affected by it. You will make the world better, or it will make you worse.
     God help you by His grace and Holy Spirit so to live in the world as to live above it, and look beyond it; and so to love it that when you leave it, you may leave it better than you found it. –Guthrie

Monday, September 21, 2015

Friendly with the World or Friend of Sinners?


 
     If you are a friend of the World God says you are His enemy (read James). We are not to be “friendly with the World” but we are to share the Gospel out of love. Love that people are heading for Hell and need Jesus! Christians, we are no longer citizens of this earth but set apart unto God and citizens of Heaven!

Sunday, September 20, 2015

We are Called to Live a New Life


Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:4 (KJV)

   That is the life we are called upon to live, and that is the life it is our privilege, for God never gives us a call without its being a privilege, and He never gives us the privilege to come up higher and higher into the realities and glories of the resurrection life, knowing that your life is hid with Christ in God. Shake yourself loss of every incumbrance, turn your back on every defilement, give yourself over like clay to the hands of the potter, that He may stamp upon you the fullness of His own resurrection glory, that you, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, may be changed from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. –W. Hay Aitken

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Beware of False Prophets


 
There are evil “religious, Christian” people out there --2 Peter 2:14-15,19
 
 

Friday, September 18, 2015

If You Can't do the Greatest Work


 
If we cannot do the greatest work, we may do the least. Our heaven will come out of the realization of the fact that…under God’s blessing that we working. –Joseph Parker
 
 

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Don't you Want Anything?


Continue in prayer
Col 4:2 (KJV)

   Dost thou want nothing? Then I fear thou dost not know thy poverty. Hast thou no mercy to ask of God? Then may the Lord’s mercy show thee they misery. A prayerless soul is a Christless soul. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. –Spurgeon

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

What is Christ?


Christ is all, and in all.
Col 3:11 (KJV)

The service of Christ is the business of my life.
The will of Christ is the law of my life.
The presence of Christ is the joy of my life.
The glory of Christ is the crown of my life.
#ThoughtsfortheQuietHour

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

The Living God


the living God
Dan 6:20 (KJV)

   How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know it is written “the living God”; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much we lose sight of as the fact that God is The Living God; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never sight of the fact the He is still and ever will be The Living God! –George Muller

Monday, September 14, 2015

The Will of God


not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Matt 26:39 (KJV)

   There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. –Faber
 
 

Sunday, September 13, 2015

If you're here, you have work to do


 
The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in heaven,
is a proof that some work awaits him.
–William Arnot
 

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Ascend the Mountain and Look


 
  Go up the mountain, and the things in the plain will look very small; the higher you rise the more insignificant they will seem. Hold fellowship with God, and the threatening foes here will seem very, very unformidable. Another way is, pull of the curtain and gaze on what is behind it. …So the world’s hindrances and the world’s difficulties look very lofty till the cloud lifts. But when we see the great white summits, everything lower does not seem so very high after all. Look to Jesus, and that will dwarf the difficulties. –Alex. McLaren
 
 

Friday, September 11, 2015

My God shall Be my Strength


my God shall be my strength.
Isaiah 49:5 (KJV)

  Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come in you by the grace of God. –Phillip Brooks

 

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Finding Rest


There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:9 (KJV)

   How sweet the music of this first heavenly chime floating across the waters of death from the towers of the New Jerusalem. Pilgrim, faint under thy long and arduous pilgrimage, hear it! It is rest. Soldier, carrying still upon thee blood and dust of battle, heart it! It is rest. Voyager, tossed on the waves of sin and sorrow, driven hither and thither on the world’s heaving ocean of vicissitude, hear it! The haven is in sight; the very waves that are breaking on the seem to murmur—“So He giveth His beloved rest.” It is the long-drawn sigh of existence at last answered. The toil and travail of earth’s protracted week is at an end. The calm of its unbroken Sabbath is begun. Man, weary man, has found at last the long-sought-for rest in the bosom of his God! –Macduff

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Walking the God's Path


Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
Psalms 25:4 (KJV)

   There is a path in which every child of God is to walk, and in which God alone can accompany him. –Denham Smith

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Why people are so confused


People are so confused because the try to combine their beliefs with God instead of letting God determining their beliefs and social systems. Repent

Monday, September 7, 2015

You, Stand Firm in your Faith!


Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Tim 3:12 (KJV)
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived 2 Tim 3:13 (KJV)
continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them 2 Tim 3:14 (KJV)

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Why the Early Church was Hated--a wake up call for American Christians


The Early Church was hated by the Romans b/c “Christians….serv[ed] only the true and living God, despised their false gods, spake against their idolatrous worshipping’s, and many times stopped the power of Satan working in their idols” –Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

Friday, September 4, 2015

Response to an Athiest

I don’t know of any atheist hospitals. Hospitals were largely started by Christians 

Thursday, September 3, 2015

How to Forgive


 
Forgive in light of What Christ forgave you of
 

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

What an Econmic Downturn does


“an economic downturn doesn’t so much cause problems as it reveals them.” Andy Stanley

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Why these Emotions!


“Every big decision will have an emotional component” Andy Stanley

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