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Saturday, June 30, 2012

"And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them."




"And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them."
—John 17:22.


EHOLD the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His all. Although a tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all thought, yet was He not content until He had given us all that He had.

It would have been surprising grace if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of His bounty beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves, He makes us sit with Him and share the feast. Had He given us some small pension from His royal coffers, we should have had cause to love Him eternally; but no, He will have His bride as rich as Himself, and He will not have a glory or a grace in which she shall not share.

He has not been content with less than making us joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has emptied all His estate into the coffers of the Church, and hath all things common with His redeemed. There is not one room in His house the key of which He will withhold from His people.

He gives them full liberty to take all that He hath to be their own; He loves them to make free with His treasure, and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fulness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes.

Christ hath put the flagon of His love and grace to the believer's lip, and bidden him drink on for ever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do so, and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is all his own.

What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford?


"When I stand before the throne
Dressed in beauty not my own;
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know—
Not till then—how much I owe."


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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

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Friday, June 29, 2012

"Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."



"Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."
—1 Thessalonians 4:14.


LET us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. 
"Today shalt thou be with me in paradise," 
is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. 

They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising Him day and night in His temple, singing hallelujahs to Him who washed them from their sins in His blood. 

The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. 
But what is this sleep? 
The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. 


Sleep makes each night a Sabbath for the day.
 Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother's breast. 


Oh! happy they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the heritors of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of redemption. 


What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They went to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but they wake up in beauty and glory. 


The shrivelled seed, so destitute of form and comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. 

Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. 
Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."

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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way ..( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ...

 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

"Looking unto Jesus."


"Looking unto Jesus."
—Hebrews 12:2.



T is ever the Holy Spirit's work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan's work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ.

 He insinuates, "Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus."

 All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that "Christ is all in all."

 Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument—it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus."

Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at night look to Him.

Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.



"My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesu's blood and righteousness:
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesu's name."


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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way ..( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ...

 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

"Only ye shall not go very far away."



"Only ye shall not go very far away."—Exodus 8:28.


HIS is a crafty word from the lip of the arch-tyrant Pharaoh. If the poor bondaged Israelites must needs go out of Egypt, then he bargains with them that it shall not be very far away; not too far for them to escape the terror of his arms, and the observation of his spies.

After the same fashion, the world loves not the non-conformity of nonconformity, or the dissidence of dissent, it would have us be more charitable and not carry matters with too severe a hand. Death to the world, and burial with Christ, are experiences which carnal minds treat with ridicule, and hence the ordinance which sets them forth is almost universally neglected, and even contemned. 

Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise, and talks of "moderation." According to this carnal policy, purity is admitted to be very desirable, but we are warned against being too precise; truth is of course to be followed, but error is not to be severely denounced. 

"Yes," says the world, "be spiritually minded by all means, but do not deny yourself a little gay society, an occasional ball, and a Christmas visit to a theatre. What's the good of crying down a thing when it is so fashionable, and everybody does it?" Multitudes of professors yield to this cunning advice, to their own eternal ruin.

 If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us. We must leave its maxims, its pleasures, and its religion too, and go far away to the place where the Lord calls His sanctified ones. 

When the town is on fire, our house cannot be too far from the flames. When the plague is abroad, a man cannot be too far from its haunts. The further from a viper the better, and the further from worldly conformity the better. 

To all true believers let the trumpet-call be sounded, "Come ye out from among them, be ye separate."

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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way ..( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ...

 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

"Art thou become like unto us?"



"Art thou become like unto us?"
—Isaiah 14:10.



HAT must be the apostate professor's doom when his naked soul appears before God? How will he bear that voice, "Depart, ye cursed; thou hast rejected me, and I reject thee; thou hast played the harlot, and departed from Me: I also have banished thee for ever from my presence, and will not have mercy upon thee."

What will be this wretch's shame at the last great day when, before assembled multitudes, the apostate shall be unmasked? See the profane, and sinners who never professed religion, lifting themselves up from their beds of fire to point at him.

"There he is," says one, "will he preach the gospel in hell?" "There he is," says another, "he rebuked me for cursing, and was a hypocrite himself!" "Aha!" says another, "here comes a psalm-singing Methodist—one who was always at his meeting; he is the man who boasted of his being sure of everlasting life; and here he is!" No greater eagerness will ever be seen among Satanic tormentors, than in that day when devils drag the hypocrite's soul down to perdition.

 Bunyan pictures this with massive but awful grandeur of poetry when he speaks of the back-way to hell. Seven devils bound the wretch with nine cords, and dragged him from the road to heaven, in which he had professed to walk, and thrust him through the back-door into hell.

Mind that back-way to hell, professors! "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith." Look well to your state; see whether you be in Christ or not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict when oneself is to be tried; but O, be just and true here.

Be just to all, but be rigorous to yourself. Remember if it be not a rock on which you build, when the house shall fall, great will be the fall of it.

O may the Lord give you sincerity, constancy, and firmness; and in no day, however evil, may you be led to turn aside.

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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way ..( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ...

 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Psalm 32 The Message



Psalm 32
The Message (MSG)

Psalm 32
A David Psalm


1 Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be— you get a fresh start,
your slate's wiped clean.

2 Count yourself lucky—
God holds nothing against you
and you're holding nothing back from him.

3 When I kept it all inside,
my bones turned to powder, 
my words became daylong groans.

4 The pressure never let up;
all the juices of my life dried up.

5 Then I let it all out;
I said, "I'll make a clean breast of my failures to God."
Suddenly the pressure was gone—my guilt dissolved,
my sin disappeared.

6 These things add up. Every one of us needs to pray;
when all hell breaks loose and the dam bursts
we'll be on high ground, untouched.

7 God's my island hideaway,
keeps danger far from the shore,
throws garlands of hosannas around my neck.

8 Let me give you some good advice;
I'm looking you in the eye
and giving it to you straight:

9 "Don't be ornery like a horse or mule
that needs bit and bridle to stay on track."

10 God-defiers are always in trouble;
God-affirmers find themselves loved
every time they turn around.

11 Celebrate God.
Sing together—everyone!
All you honest hearts, raise the roof!




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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 
 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, 
This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore 
is considered in the "Public Domain".
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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God, without acquiring any monetary reward. God gave me the salvation for free, so I share the gospel of his word the same way ..( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ...

 ♥♥♥ Blessings to all of You,
 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God ♥♥♥ 

 PRAYER
 Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, 
who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. 
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 
 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy..
 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.
 Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 
 Amen.

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS" 

 You can see only one post at the time, please go to the bottom and look for the "Blog Archive", there is many more, sometimes I do many during the day as the time permits. 
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