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It Is Never Too Late – Part I
As children of God, we are prone to want to please God. As humans, we are prone to satisfy the flesh. The Spirit and the flesh are constantly at war. As we continue our walk with God, the Spirit becomes more victorious but sometimes the flesh gets the best of us. The flesh is very deceptive through the power of the devil. It may not lead us into deliberate sin, but it has us slowly drift away. The saying is true: “If we are not moving forward, we are automatically moving backwards.”
When we first entered into our relationship with God, More >
Thought for the morning of Sun March 13, 2011
Dear reader, this little book was mainly intended for the edification of believers, but if you are yet unsaved, our heart yearns over you: and we would fain say a word which may be blessed to you. Open your Bible, and read the story of the lepers, and mark their position, which was much the same as yours. If you remain where you are you must perish; if you go to Jesus you can but die. “Nothing venture, nothing win,” is the old proverb, and in your case the venture is no great one. If you sit still in sullen More >
Thought for the morning of Sun May 20, 2012
When we give our hearts with our alms, we give well, but we must often plead to a failure in this respect. Not so our Master and our Lord. His favours are always performed with the love of his heart. He does not send to us the cold meat and the broken pieces from the table of his luxury, but he dips our morsel in his own dish, and seasons our provisions with the spices of his fragrant affections. When he puts the golden tokens of his grace into our palms, he accompanies the gift with such a warm pressure More >
Day 72 | Read the Bible in a Year
read the bible in a year: day 72 Matthew 14:22-36
22 And straight away he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, till he had sent the people away. 23 And after he had sent the people away, he went up into the mountain by himself for prayer: and when evening was come, he was there by himself. 24 But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, and was troubled by the waves: for the wind was against them. 25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the More >
Thought for the morning of Sat March 12, 2011
“Love thy neighbour.” Perhaps he rolls in riches, and thou art poor, and living in thy little cot side-by-side with his lordly mansion; thou seest every day his estates, his fine linen, and his sumptuous banquets; God has given him these gifts, covet not his wealth, and think no hard thoughts concerning him. Be content with thine own lot, if thou canst not better it, but do not look upon thy neighbour, and wish that he were as thyself. Love him, and then thou wilt not envy him.
Perhaps, on the other hand, thou art rich, and near thee reside More >
Thought for the morning of Sat May 19, 2012
Upstarts frequently usurp the highest places, while the truly great pine in obscurity. This is a riddle in providence whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot. When our Lord was upon earth, although he is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yet he walked the footpath of weariness and service as the Servant of servants: what wonder is it if his followers, who are princes of the blood, should also be looked down More >
Day 71 | Read the Bible in a Year
read the bible in a year: day 71 Matthew 14:1-21
1 At that time news of Jesus came to Herod the king; 2 And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him. 3 For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. 4 Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her. 5 And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet. More >
God, Save Us From Religion!
In Matthew 27:44, the robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.
It is amazing to see how far the news of Jesus reached. Even the criminals who were being crucified with Jesus heard His claims that He was the Son of God. Now we have the religious leaders, the government, the Gentiles, and the criminals against God. It doesn’t seem much different from today. All of God’s enemies had the opportunity to unleash their wrath on Him. It is easy to see why God is against religion. In fact, God is against man-made More >
Boasting: James 4: 13
James 4: 13 – 17Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.” Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. Anyone, the, who know the right thing to do and fails More >
Life Source – Week 8
As Jesus finishes the final conversation with His disciples … He turns His eyes to heaven and to the Father in prayer. This prayer – which seems so intimate and personal that we feel we are eavesdropping – was meant to be heard. It was meant to be heard by Jesus’ disciples at the time and by us this many generations removed from the moment. I want to spend quiet, reflective time in this “high priestly prayer”. Let’s move slowly … carefully … thoughtfully … as we read these verses. And, let’s turn Jesus’ words and heart into our own. More >
