Get together with other believers to praise God..

Psalm 34:3 (NIV). 

Glorify the LORD with me; let us exalt his name together....... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

Isn't it good that we can sing alone and know God loves our song! 

Isn't it even better that we can join others in songs of praise and lose ourselves in wonder, love, and praise! 

Let's spend today finding other believers 

and praising God together. 

All around the world, hundreds of thousands strong, let's reach out to other believers and ask them to join us in glorifying the Lord! 

"Whom he justified, them he also glorified."

"Whom he justified, them he also glorified."Romans 8:30

Here is a precious truth for thee, believer. Thou mayest be poor, or in suffering, or unknown, but for thine encouragement take a review of thy "calling" and the consequences that flow from it, and especially that blessed result here spoken of. 

As surely as thou art God's child today, so surely shall all thy trials soon be at an end, and thou shalt be rich to all the intents of bliss. Wait awhile, and that weary head shall wear the crown of glory, and that hand of labour shall grasp the palm-branch of victory. Lament not thy troubles, but rather rejoice that ere long thou wilt be where "there shall be neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." 

The chariots of fire are at thy door, and a moment will suffice to bear thee to the glorified. The everlasting song is almost on thy lip. The portals of heaven stand open for thee. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If he hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from his love. 

Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain. Thou art secure; that voice which called thee at first, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours. Rest assured, the heart of him who has justified thee beats with infinite love towards thee. 

Thou shalt soon be with the glorified, where thy portion is; thou art only waiting here to be made meet for the inheritance, and that done, the wings of angels shall waft thee far away, to the mount of peace, and joy, and blessedness, where,

"Far from a world of grief and sin,

With God eternally shut in,"

thou shalt rest forever and ever.

Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

MEMORIAL DAY!

LET'S KEEP U. S, A, SOLDIERS IN OUR PRAYERS !!!

Jesus our way to heaven !!!

Wow!!! it is marvelous the way Jesus open the way for us to have access to heaven, He is the stairway to heaven, praise to the King of Glory no one can do that, just our wonderful SAVIOR JESUS, that join heaven and  earth through his resurrection.

HE IS THE ONLY WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE !!!

Thoughts !!!

1 John 4:12 (NIV). 

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us....... 

Thoughts on This Verse...

What an incredible thought!

 God can be seen in my home. 

The Father of the universe lives in my church. 

The Almighty God's love is recognizable in my life. How so? When I love those around me, when they love me back, when we choose to be loving instead of petty, unforgiving, critical, and harsh, God's presence, power, and perfection are revealed in us!

The king's table !!!

"So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet."

2 Samuel 9:13

Mephibosheth was no great ornament to a royal table, yet he had a continual place at David's board, because the king could see in his face the features of the beloved Jonathan. 

Like Mephibosheth, we may cry unto the King of Glory, "What is thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?" but still the Lord indulges us with most familiar intercourse with himself, because he sees in our countenances the remembrance of his dearly-beloved Jesus. 

The Lord's people are dear for another's sake. Such is the love which the Father bears to his only begotten, that for his sake he raises his lowly brethren from poverty and banishment, to courtly companionship, noble rank, and royal provision. Their deformity shall not rob them of their privileges. Lameness is no bar to sonship; the cripple is as much the heir as if he could run like Asahel.

 Our right does not limp, though our might may. A king's table is a noble hiding-place for lame legs, and at the gospel feast we learn to glory in infirmities, because the power of Christ resteth upon us. Yet grievous disability may mar the persons of the best-loved saints. 

Here is one feasted by David, and yet so lame in both his feet that he could not go up with the king when he fled from the city, and was therefore maligned and injured by his servant Ziba. Saints whose faith is weak, and whose knowledge is slender, are great losers; they are exposed to many enemies, and cannot follow the king whithersoever he goeth. 

This disease frequently arises from falls. Bad nursing in their spiritual infancy often causes converts to fall into a despondency from which they never recover, and sin in other cases brings broken bones. 

Lord, help the lame to leap like an hart, and satisfy all thy people with the bread of thy table!

Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

Eagles !!!

Christian Comments

So open your heart and raise your voice to praise your God !!!

Psalm 9:2 (NIV). 

I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High....... 

Thoughts on This Verse...

When was the last time you made up a song? 

The last time you made up a song of praise to God? Worried that you can't do it? 

Don't think it will be good? 

Don't worry! your only audience is your Abba Father who longs to hear your heart sing regardless of your voice's perfection or your melody's tune. 

He wants to rejoice and be glad with you. 

So open your heart and raise your voice to praise your God.

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee."

Psalm 55:22

Care, even though exercised upon legitimate objects, if carried to excess, has in it the nature of sin. The precept to avoid anxious care is earnestly inculcated by our Saviour, again and again; it is reiterated by the apostles; and it is one which cannot be neglected without involving transgression: for the very essence of anxious care is the imagining that we are wiser than God, and the thrusting ourselves into his place to do for him that which he has undertaken to do for us. 

We attempt to think of that which we fancy he will forget; we labour to take upon ourselves our weary burden, as if he were unable or unwilling to take it for us. Now this disobedience to his plain precept, this unbelief in his Word, this presumption in intruding upon his province, is all sinful. Yet more than this, anxious care often leads to acts of sin. 

He who cannot calmly leave his affairs in God's hand, but will carry his own burden, is very likely to be tempted to use wrong means to help himself. This sin leads to a forsaking of God as our counsellor, and resorting instead to human wisdom. This is going to the "broken cistern" instead of to the "fountain;" a sin which was laid against Israel of old. 

Anxiety makes us doubt God's lovingkindness, and thus our love to him grows cold; we feel mistrust, and thus grieve the Spirit of God, so that our prayers become hindered, our consistent example marred, and our life one of self-seeking. Thus want of confidence in God leads us to wander far from him; but if through simple faith in his promise, we cast each burden as it comes upon him, and are "careful for nothing" because he undertakes to care for us, it will keep us close to him, and strengthen us against much temptation. 

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee."

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Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

Taste and see !!!

Psalm 34:8 (NIV). 

Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him....... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

Some aspects of faith are indescribable: they can only be experienced and known by doing them. Taste the Lord. 

Sample his goodness. Lean on his grace. Take refuge in his care. 

We are blessed to find him near and take our refuge from life's greatest dangers and death's greatest fears.

 

"Forsake me not, O Lord."

"Forsake me not, O Lord."

Psalm 38:21

Frequently we pray that God would not forsake us in the hour of trial and temptation, but we too much forget that we have need to use this prayer at all times. 

There is no moment of our life, however holy, in which we can do without his constant upholding. Whether in light or in darkness, in communion or in temptation, we alike need the prayer, "Forsake me not, O Lord." 

"Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe." A little child, while learning to walk, always needs the nurse's aid. The ship left by the pilot drifts at once from her course. We cannot do without continued aid from above; let it then be your prayer today, "Forsake me not. Father, forsake not thy child, lest he fall by the hand of the enemy. 

Shepherd, forsake not thy lamb, lest he wander from the safety of the fold. Great Husbandman, forsake not thy plant, lest it wither and die. Forsake me not, O Lord,' now; and forsake me not at any moment of my life. Forsake me not in my joys, lest they absorb my heart. Forsake me not in my sorrows, lest I murmur against thee. 

Forsake me not in the day of my repentance, lest I lose the hope of pardon, and fall into despair; and forsake me not in the day of my strongest faith, lest faith degenerate into presumption. 

Forsake me not, for without thee I am weak, but with thee I am strong. Forsake me not, for my path is dangerous, and full of snares, and I cannot do without thy guidance. The hen forsakes not her brood; do thou then evermore cover me with thy feathers, and permit me under thy wings to find my refuge. 

Be not far from me, O Lord, for trouble is near, for there is none to help.' Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation!'"

"O ever in our cleansed breast,

Bid thine Eternal Spirit rest;

And make our secret soul to be

A temple pure and worthy thee."

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Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

"Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer."

"Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer."

Psalm 66:20

In looking back upon the character of our prayers, if we do it honestly, we shall be filled with wonder that God has ever answered them. There may be some who think their prayers worthy of acceptance--as the Pharisee did; but the true Christian, in a more enlightened retrospect, weeps over his prayers, and if he could retrace his steps he would desire to pray more earnestly. 

Remember, Christian, how cold thy prayers have been. When in thy closet thou shouldst have wrestled as Jacob did; 

but instead thereof, thy petitions have been faint and few--far removed from that humble, believing, persevering faith, which cries, "I will not let thee go except thou bless me." Yet, wonderful to say, God has heard these cold prayers of thine, and not only heard, but answered them. 

Reflect also, how infrequent have been thy prayers, unless thou hast been in trouble, and then thou hast gone often to the mercy-seat: but when deliverance has come, where has been thy constant supplication? Yet, notwithstanding thou hast ceased to pray as once thou didst, God has not ceased to bless. 

When thou hast neglected the mercy-seat, God has not deserted it, but the bright light of the Shekinah has always been visible between the wings of the cherubim. Oh! it is marvellous that the Lord should regard those intermittent spasms of importunity which come and go with our necessities. What a God is he thus to hear the prayers of those who come to him when they have pressing wants, but neglect him when they have received a mercy; who approach him when they are forced to come, but who almost forget to address him when mercies are plentiful and sorrows are few. 

Let his gracious kindness in hearing such prayers touch our hearts, so that we may henceforth be found "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit."

Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

HOPE OF GLORY !!!

Ephesians 1:11-13 (GOD’S WORD Translation)

God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends. He planned all of this so that we who had already focused our hope on Christ would praise him and give him glory.

You heard and believed the message of truth, the Good News that he has saved you. In him you were sealed with the Holy Spirit whom he promised.

Colossians 1:26-28 (GOD’S WORD Translation)

In the past God hid this mystery, but now he has revealed it to his people. God wanted his people throughout the world to know the glorious riches of this mystery—which is Christ living in you, giving you the hope of glory.
We spread the message about Christ as we instruct and teach everyone with all the wisdom there is. We want to present everyone as mature Christian people.

Titus 2:12-14 (GOD’S WORD Translation)

It trains us to avoid ungodly lives filled with worldly desires so that we can live self-controlled, moral, and godly lives in this present world. At the same time we can expect what we hope for—the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave himself for us to set us free from every sin and to cleanse us so that we can be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good things.

Verse of the Day !!!

Luke 2:14 (NIV). 
''Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.''......

Thoughts on This Verse... 


There is only one proper response 
for God's gift of Jesus -- 
our praise and adoration. 
God's love, grace, favor, blessing, forgiveness, mercy, and salvation come to us through the incredible gift of Jesus. 
How can we not praise him? 
How can our hearts remain still and voices remain silent before such an incredible God? 
They can't and won't! Let's see any present-day refusal of hearts and voices to respond as a reminder that we need to reach as many as possible before every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father! 

"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me."

"The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me."

Psalm 138:8

Most manifestly the confidence which the Psalmist here expressed was a divine confidence. He did not say, "I have grace enough to perfect that which concerneth me--my faith is so steady that it will not stagger--my love is so warm that it will never grow cold--my resolution is so firm that nothing can move it"; no, his dependence was on the Lord alone. 

If we indulge in any confidence which is not grounded on the Rock of Ages, our confidence is worse than a dream, it will fall upon us, and cover us with its ruins, to our sorrow and confusion. All that Nature spins time will unravel, to the eternal confusion of all who are clothed therein. 

The Psalmist was wise, he rested upon nothing short of the Lord's work. It is the Lord who has begun the good work within us; it is he who has carried it on; and if he does not finish it, it never will be complete. If there be one stitch in the celestial garment of our righteousness which we are to insert ourselves, then we are lost; but this is our confidence, the Lord who began will perfect. 

He has done it all, must do it all, and will do it all. Our confidence must not be in what we have done, nor in what we have resolved to do, but entirely in what the Lord will do. Unbelief insinuates--"You will never be able to stand. Look at the evil of your heart, you can never conquer sin; remember the sinful pleasures and temptations of the world that beset you, you will be certainly allured by them and led astray." 

Ah! yes, we should indeed perish if left to our own strength. If we had alone to navigate our frail vessels over so rough a sea, we might well give up the voyage in despair; but, thanks be to God, he will perfect that which concerneth us, and bring us to the desired haven. 

We can never be too confident when we confide in him alone, and never too much concerned to have such a trust.

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Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."

Our life in Christ is such a blessing!

Romans 14:1 (NIV). Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.......

Thoughts on This Verse... 

Our life in Christ is such a blessing! 

We welcome new Christians into our fellowship to share that blessing. 

We don't bring them in to scrutinize their past failures or the current struggles, but to bring them into the love of God's family. 

God has welcomed us graciously and compassionately. Let's do the same with new Christians. 

"He led them forth by the right way."

"He led them forth by the right way."

Psalm 107:7

Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to inquire "Why is it thus with me?" I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold, trouble. 

I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm; I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; today my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday, I could climb to Pisgah's top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; today, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. 

Is this part of God's plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. 

These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith--they are waves that wash you further upon the rock--they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven. 

According to David's words, so it might be said of you, "So he bringeth them to their desired haven." 

By honour and dishonour, 

by evil report and by good report, 

by plenty and by poverty, 

by joy and by distress, 

by persecution and by peace, 

by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way. 

Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God's plan; they are necessary parts of it. "We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom." 

Learn, then, even to "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."

"O let my trembling soul be still,

And wait thy wise, thy holy will!

I cannot, Lord, thy purpose see,

Yet all is well since ruled by thee."

Today's reading taken from Charles Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening."