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September 18 - December 24, 2024
Dare to contend without being contentious. Dare to preserve truth without hurting people. Dare to love and to be charitable.
Let us be courageous but tender; severe but kind. And let us pray in the Holy Spirit and keep ourselves in the love of God, building up ourselves in the most holy faith, and win all those we can till the day of the glory and the song. Faith of Our Fathers Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) Faith of our fathers, living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword; O how our hearts beat high with joy Whenever we hear that glorious Word! Faith of our fathers, we will strive To win all nations unto Thee; And through the truth that comes from God, We all shall then be truly free. Faith of our
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If you have been reared in a Christian home where the Bible, the Gospel, the Sunday School and the presence of Christian people have become a routine thing, and you’re not affected by them at all; if even prayer does not affect you, that is a proof that you are morally asleep and need to wake up.
I believe that Christians ought to be careful that they are awake and stay awake; that they are alert to what is going on in the world. Most Christians are not alert to what is going on around them. They know it historically and in current events, but they do not know what the current events mean.
If there is anything I have asked God for, it is spiritual discernment.
Almighty God! Turn off their eyes From these alluring vanities; And let the thunder of Thy Word Awake their souls to fear the Lord.
It says, “Shake thyself from the dust and put on the beautiful garments” and in the Bible, garments, of course, are righteousness and true holiness; basic goodness, moral soundness.
A Christian ought to be, above all other things, a good man. If he is not basically a good man, I cannot see how he can be a Christian.
If God never answered another prayer for me as long as I live, I still want God to know that I want to serve Him until I die.
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean” (Isa. 52:1).
I pray that all of us who are awake now will do our duty and our privilege, and our right under grace, to be filled with the Holy Spirit so that we might rise, shine and let our light shine forth to the world. It is time we wake up.
Ye Sons of Adam, Vain and Young Isaac Watts (1674–1748) Ye sons of Adam, vain and young, Indulge your eyes, indulge your tongue, Taste the delights your souls desire, And give a loose to all your fire; Pursue the pleasures you design, And cheer your hearts with songs and wine; Enjoy the day of mirth, but know There is a day of judgment, too. God from on high records your thoughts, His book records your secret faults; The works of darkness you have done Must all appear before the sun. The vengeance to your follies due Should strike your hearts with terror through: How will you stand before His
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Our ability to change our mind is our hope.
The call of God in repentance is a call to change from the worst state to a better state.
Backsliding always begins with the heart.
Whenever talk of God and His Word and His work in the world bores us, be sure that we are wrong inside.
I pray that God will do us the inestimable favor of going from heart to heart, mind to mind and soul to soul—that He will test us with His spiritual Geiger counter. And if there is a cooling off in there, He will find it and cure it.
“Jesus, I give Thee my heart today! Jesus, I’ll follow Thee all the way, Gladly obeying Thee!” will you say: “This I will do with Jesus!”
What will you do with Jesus? Neutral you cannot be; Some day your heart will be asking, “What will He do with me?”
A voice is speaking to us in the Word and out of heaven, saying, “Consider your ways”—look closely and consider seriously.
“Consider your ways,” it means consider your moral ways. Notice that it is your own ways you are to consider, which is contrary to our common habit. And it is the work of the Holy Spirit to focus our attention there.
Everything has a consequence.
Everything you are, say, do or think is a result of some choice you made in the past and will result in some future saying, doing, being or thinking.
I think it would make a wonderful difference in our lives if we were to remember, and believe, that we are going to give an account to God for every deed and every word.
For what we are will determine our destiny. Our moral fabric will determine heaven or hell for us.
Our choices have consequences in our moral structure, either to strengthen virtue or to rot the nerve center of virtue.
Everything we are is a result of choices we have made.
We can make our choices wise, unselfish, far-seeing, courageous, humble, faith-inspired, God-obeying choices.
A person’s choices distinguish him as either wise or foolish. The wise man knows he must give account of the deeds done in the body, but the fool does not.
A fool is a man who acts without regard t...
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“Choose you this day,” says the Holy Spirit.
Free choice is as necessary to holiness as it is to sin. Holiness is moral freedom of choice resulting in a right choice of holiness and righteousness. Nobody ever deliberately chooses death.
No man can stand up and say, “I choose life” in that sense. He says, “I choose the one who gives life; I choose the way to life. I choose life by repudiating death.”
We make the right choice by starting with repentance.
casual Christian life, to consider your ways and start living a Christian life that will shame the devil and please God and start you on the way to victorious living and fruitful service and holy character.
You must make the choice. That choice will result in deeds, and those deeds will result in destiny. God has bestowed this honor upon you that you can choose. Have you chosen the one who gives life?
For every deed there is a corresponding consequence.
A scriptural principle that is often misconstrued is found in Galatians 6:7: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” This is the irrepressible law of consequence.
Make no mistake: Today you face the consequences of yesterday’s choices. Tomorrow you will face the consequences of today’s choices.
Conquering now and still to conquer, rideth a King in His might; Leading the host of all the faithful into the midst of the fight; See them with courage advancing, clad in their brilliant array, Shouting the Name of their Leader, hear them exultingly say: Not to the strong is the battle, not to the swift is the race, Yet to the true and the faithful vict’ry is promised through grace. Conquering now and still to conquer, who is this wonderful King? Whence are the armies which He leadeth, while of His glory they sing? He is our Lord and Redeemer, Savior and Monarch divine; They are the stars
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I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. PSALM 18:1-2
First, we need spiritual discernment. We need Christians whose eyes have been opened to see the treacherous condition the Church faces today and to show the way out.
Along with discernment, we need courage to speak out against those dangers and call the Church back to her Rock, Jesus Christ.
The book of Psalms is a mirror of spiritual life.
Danger approaches the Christian life from three directions: the world through which we journey, the god of this world and our unmortified flesh. That’s why we need a rock, a fortress, a deliverer, a buckler, a high tower to run to—all names for God.
Real dangers are dangers that get through to the soul and the spirit of a man.
The apostle said, “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing” (2 Tim. 4:8).
That is why the Bible is so stern and insistent about the world. Many Christian leaders will apologize and compromise and smooth things over with the world. But you will find nothing but stern insistence in the Bible that we ought to forsake the world and not in any way be influenced by its sin or unbelief or diversions or ambitions or worldly spirit. The dangers that come to the Christian come through this world.
Wherever you find the work of God going on, you will find the devil there, counterpunching, hitting back.
The flesh is with us always, and unless conquered on a daily basis, it will bring nothing but trouble.
