Archive for September, 2007
Humility
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is for me to have no trouble; never to be fretted or vexed or irritated or sore or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord where I can go in and shut the door and kneel to my Father in secret and be at peace as in a deep sea of calmness when all around is trouble. It is the fruit of the Lord Jesus Christ’s redemptive work on Calvary’s cross, manifested in those of His own who are definitely subject to the Holy Spirit. - andrew murray, Humility
Add comment September 30, 2007
day of the year
Today is the 272nd day of this year. Only 93 more days to go. Life goes by fast. Enjoy every minute of it.
Add comment September 29, 2007
God’s power
God does not ask you to give the perfect surrender in your strength, or by the power of your will; God is willing to work it in you. Do we not read: “It is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). …learn to believe… - andrew murray, Abolute Surrender
Add comment September 28, 2007
the Word for today
Bible in a Year
1 John 3
2 Chronicles 36
Psalms 90
Add comment September 27, 2007
spiritual power
If we will let Him, Christ will do in us and through us that which He did in and through the committed believers after Pentecost.The potential is ours. Do we dare believe that the faithful Christian believers may yet experience a great new wave of spiritual power?
- a.w. tozer
Add comment September 26, 2007
personal deliverance
This morning I read this devotional and, although it does not correspond to today’s date, it was in God’s perfect timing for me to read it. I hope it ministers to you as it did me. It comes out of O.C. Chamber’s “Utmost for His Highest” dated June 27.
The Overshadowing of God’s Personal Deliverance
. . . I am with you to deliver you,’ says the Lord — Jeremiah 1:8
God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally— “. . . your life shall be as a prize to you . . .” (Jeremiah 39:18). That is all God promises His children. Wherever God sends us, He will guard our lives. Our personal property and possessions are to be a matter of indifference to us, and our hold on these things should be very loose. If this is not the case, we will have panic, heartache, and distress. Having the proper outlook is evidence of the deeply rooted belief in the overshadowing of God’s personal deliverance.
The Sermon on the Mount indicates that when we are on a mission for Jesus Christ, there is no time to stand up for ourselves. Jesus says, in effect, “Don’t worry about whether or not you are being treated justly.” Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, “Why should I be treated like this?” If we are devoted to Jesus Christ, we have nothing to do with what we encounter, whether it is just or unjust. In essence, Jesus says, “Continue steadily on with what I have told you to do, and I will guard your life. If you try to guard it yourself, you remove yourself from My deliverance.” Even the most devout among us become atheistic in this regard— we do not believe Him. We put our common sense on the throne and then attach God’s name to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts (see Proverbs 3:5-6).
Add comment September 26, 2007
the Word for today
Bible in a Year
1 John 2
2 Chronicles 35
Psalms 89:38-52
Add comment September 26, 2007
