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For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 

As the heavens are higher than the

earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:8-9, New International Version

WE ARE GOD'S EXCELLENCY !!!

Ephesians 2:10 (NIV).

 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do....... 

Thoughts on This Verse...

 We are not just saved by grace from death; 

we are saved by grace for God's glory. 

He has remade us. 

We are his craftsmanship, his artistry, and he longs to display his goodness and grace through our actions and words as we help others.

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For he satisfies the thirsty

Psalm 107:9 (NIV). 

For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things....... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

The Bible cries out with one recurring truth: 

God quenches the thirst and satisfies the hunger of those who seek him. 

So often we try to soothe the ache in our soul and fill the emptiness in our heart with what is only a temporary satisfaction that only God's presence can fill.

 Let's refuse every false satisfaction and seek the LORD!

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"Brethren, pray for us."

"Brethren, pray for us."

1 Thessalonians 5:25

This one morning in the year we reserved

 to refresh the reader's memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by an apostle and now repeated by us. 

Brethren, our work is solemnly momentous,

 involving weal or woe to thousands; we treat with souls for God on eternal business, and our word is either a savour of life unto life, or of death unto death. 

A very heavy responsibility rests upon us, 

and it will be no small mercy if at the last we be found clear of the blood of all men.

 As officers in Christ's army, 

we are the especial mark of the enmity of men 

and devils; they watch for our halting, and labour to take us by the heels. 

Our sacred calling involves us in temptations from which you are exempt, above all it too often draws us away from our personal enjoyment of truth into a ministerial and official consideration of it.

 We meet with many knotty cases, and our wits are at a non plus; we observe very sad backslidings, 

and our hearts are wounded; 

we see millions perishing, and our spirits sink. 

We wish to profit you by our preaching; we desire to be blest to your children; we long to be useful both to saints and sinners; therefore, dear friends, intercede for us with our God. 

Miserable men are we if we miss the aid of your prayers, but happy are we if we live in your supplications. 

You do not look to us but to our Master for spiritual blessings, and yet how many times has He given those blessings through His ministers; ask then, again and again, that we may be the earthen vessels into which the Lord may put the treasure of the gospel. 

We, the whole company of missionaries, ministers, city missionaries, and students, do in the name of Jesus beseech you

"Brethren, pray for us."

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

MANDISA PLAYLIST FOR YOUR BLESSING !!!

PLEASE ENJOY THIS PLAYLIST FOR YOUR BLESSING ON THIS PRECIOUS FRIDAY,  

A DAY THAT  THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HAS GIVEN TO US  TO REJOICE IN HIM !!!

VICTORY IN JESUS !!!

1 Corinthians 15:57

New International Version (NIV)

 But thanks be to God! 

He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

BE MADE NEW !!!

Ephesians 4:23 (NIV). 

[B]e made new in the attitude of your minds; .......... 

Thoughts on This Verse... 

We cannot renew ourselves on our own. 

We can guard ourselves from corrupting influences. 

We can offer ourselves to God and come to better discern his will. 

Ultimately, however, God himself must do the renewing, not just when we are saved, but daily. 

Only God's grace can sustain, empower, and renew us. 

Let's offer ourselves to him. Then,

 let's confidently ask for his grace to empower, perfect, and renew us!

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dwell safely !!!

"Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."Proverbs 1:33
Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. 
Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. 


When the Israelites provoked the Most High by their continued idolatry, he punished them by withholding both dew and rain, so that their land was visited by a sore famine; but while he did this, he took care that his own chosen ones should be secure.


 If all other brooks are dry, yet shall there be one reserved for Elijah; and when that fails, God shall still preserve for him a place of sustenance; nay, not only so, the Lord had not simply one "Elijah," but he had a remnant according to the election of grace, who were hidden by fifties in a cave, and though the whole land was subject to famine, yet these fifties in the cave were fed, and fed from Ahab's table too by His faithful, God-fearing steward, Obadiah.


 Let us from this draw the inference, that come what may, God's people are safe. Let convulsions shake the solid earth, let the skies themselves be rent in twain, yet amid the wreck of worlds the believer shall be as secure as in the calmest hour of rest. If God cannot save his people under heaven, he will save them in heaven. If the world becomes too hot to hold them, then heaven shall be the place of their reception and their safety. 


Be ye then confident, when ye hear of wars, and rumours of wars. Let no agitation distress you, but be quiet from fear of evil. Whatsoever cometh upon the earth, you, beneath the broad wings of Jehovah, shall be secure. Stay yourself upon his promise; rest in his faithfulness, and bid defiance to the blackest future, for there is nothing in it direful for you. 


Your sole concern should be to show forth to the world the blessedness of hearkening to the voice of wisdom.

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

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GOD BLESS  YOU AND YOUR FAMILY !!!

"Called to be saints."

"Called to be saints."

Romans 1:7

We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were "saints" in a more especial manner than the other children of God. 

All are "saints" whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to the same weaknesses and temptations as ourselves. 

Yet in so doing we are forgetful of this truth, that the nearer a man lives to God the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart; and the more his Master honours him in his service, the more also doth the evil of the flesh vex and tease him day by day. 

The fact is, if we had seen the apostle Paul, we should have thought him remarkably like the rest of the chosen family: and if we had talked with him, we should have said, "We find that his experience and ours are much the same. He is more faithful, more holy, and more deeply taught than we are, but he has the selfsame trials to endure. 

Apostle Paul 

Nay, in some respects he is more sorely tried than ourselves." Do not, then, look upon the ancient saints as being exempt either from infirmities or sins; and do not regard them with that mystic reverence which will almost make us idolaters. 

Their holiness is attainable even by us. We are "called to be saints" by that same voice which constrained them to their high vocation. It is a Christian's duty to force his way into the inner circle of saintship; and if these saints were superior to us in their attainments, as they certainly were, let us follow them; let us emulate their ardour and holiness. 

We have the same light that they had, the same grace is accessible to us, and why should we rest satisfied until we have equalled them in heavenly character? They lived with Jesus, they lived for Jesus, therefore they grew like Jesus. 

Let us live by the same Spirit as they did, 

"looking unto Jesus," 

and our saintship will soon be apparent.

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

FORGIVENESS !!!

Romans 6:5-6 (NIV). If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin......... 
Thoughts on This Verse... 
Paul reminds us that our baptism was more than just a dunking in water. In baptism, we shared in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection. 
What he did to save us is now shared with us. We die to sin and are raised to be a new person, cleansed and made holy, empowered by the Holy Spirit. 
We have been set free from the power and the penalty of sin.

"Sanctify them through thy truth."

"Sanctify them through thy truth."

John 17:17

Sanctification begins in regeneration. 

The Spirit of God infuses into man that new living principle by which he becomes 

"a new creature" in Christ Jesus. 

This work, which begins in the new birth, 

is carried on in two ways--mortification, whereby the lusts of the flesh are subdued and kept under; and vivification, by which the life which God has put within us is made to be a well of water springing up unto everlasting life. 

This is carried on every day in what is called "perseverance," by which the Christian is preserved and continued in a gracious state, and is made to abound in good works unto the praise and glory of God; and it culminates or comes to perfection, in "glory," when the soul, being thoroughly purged, is caught up to dwell with holy beings at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

 But while the Spirit of God is thus the author of sanctification, yet there is a visible agency employed which must not be forgotten. "Sanctify them," said Jesus, "through thy truth: thy word is truth." 

The passages of Scripture which prove that the instrument of our sanctification is the Word of God are very many. 

The Spirit of God brings to our minds the precepts and doctrines of truth, and applies them with power. 

These are heard in the ear, and being received in the heart, they work in us to will and to do of God's good pleasure. The truth is the sanctifier, and if we do not hear or read the truth, we shall not grow in sanctification. 

We only progress in sound living as we progress in sound understanding. 

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet 

and a light unto my path." 

Do not say of any error, "It is a mere matter of opinion." No man indulges an error of judgment, without sooner or later tolerating an error in practice. Hold fast the truth, for by so holding the truth shall you be sanctified by the Spirit of God.

PLUG TO HIS WORD AND HE WOULD DO AMAZING THINGS IN YOUR LIFE !!!

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

If I neglect prayer !!!

"The ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine."

Genesis 41:4

Pharaoh's dream has too often been my waking experience. 

My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life. 

I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul. 

When the caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever. 

How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires I should soon reach it,

 but backsliding leaves me still far off from the prize of my high calling, and robs me of the advances which I had so laboriously made. 

The only way in which all my days can be as the "fat kine," is to feed them in the right meadow,

 to spend them with the Lord, 

in His service, 

in His company, 

in His fear, 

and in His way.

 Why should not every year be richer than the past, in love, and usefulness, and joy?--I am nearer the celestial hills,

 I have had more experience of my Lord, 

and should be more like Him. 

O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness of soul; let me not have to cry, "My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!" but may I be well-fed and nourished in thy house, that I may praise thy name.

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

"Our heart shall rejoice in Him."

"Our heart shall rejoice in Him."Psalm 33:21

Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. 

The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, "God is with me still."  Oh! to Jesus--it is all by Jesus. 

Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy. 

He is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him, and cries, 

"Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountain-head in heaven; they are not bitter, they are sweet as nectar, for they flow from the throne of God."

 As the departing saint wades through the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him, the same voice sounds in his ears, "Fear not; I am with thee; be not dismayed; I am thy God." As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown, and is almost affrighted to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says, "Fear not, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." 

Thus strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; nay, he is even willing to depart, for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star, he longs to gaze upon Him as the sun in his strength. 

Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire. He is at once

"The glory of our brightest days;

The comfort of our nights."

God Bless America !!!

Psalm 33:12

New International Version 

  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
   the people he chose for his inheritance.


FATHER PLEASE BLESS THE USA 
AND LET US BE A GOOD CITIZENS, KEEPING
 YOUR WORD ALIVE IN ALL AREAS OF THE NATION !!! 
AMEN... 

In your presence is there is fulness of JOY !!!