Preparatory grace

Preparatory grace

‘When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me.’ 

Galatians 1:15–16

Suggested Further Reading: 

2 Timothy 2:23–26

Dr Gifford once went to see a woman in prison who had been a very gross offender. She was such a hardened reprobate, that the doctor began by discoursing with her about the judgments of God, and the punishments of hell, but she only laughed him to scorn, and called him opprobrious names. 

The doctor burst into tears, and said, ‘And yet, poor soul, there is mercy for you, even for such as you are, though you have laughed in the face of him who would do you good. Christ is able to forgive you, bad though you are; and I hope that he will yet take you to dwell with him at his right hand.’ 

In a moment the woman stopped her laughing, sat down quietly, burst into tears, and said, ‘Don’t talk to me in that way: I have always been told that I should be damned, and I made up my mind to be; I knew there was no chance, and so I have gone on from one sin to another: but if there is a hope of mercy for me, that is another thing: if there is a possibility of my being forgiven, that is another thing.’

 The doctor at once opened his Bible, and began to read to her these words, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.’ 

The greatest brokenness of heart followed. In subsequent visits the doctor was gratified to find that she was brought to Christ; and though she had to undergo a sentence of transportation for many years at that time, yet in after days the godly man saw her walking honestly and uprightly as a believer in Jesus Christ. Sinner, I wish that thought would bring you to Christ!

For meditation:

 Those who win souls are wise (Proverbs 11:30) and must speak wisely to win souls. A soft answer is more likely to have the desired effect than harsh words (Proverbs 15:1). Jesus said ‘Come unto me … and I will give you rest …; I am meek and lowly in heart’ (Matthew 11:28–29). 

He died to enable sinners to come to God through him. 

Can you still harden your heart against him?

Sermon no. 656

21 August (Undated Sermon)

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If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ,

 you can be accepted in to his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted.

"PRAYER"

Marvelous God Almighty, I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, who died for me to make me free of sin, I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, I confess that He is the son of God.

I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, not only to live on this earth, but to be expectant of my life in heaven.

In the precious name of Jesus I ask.

Amen..
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“The true minister of Christ
 knows that the true value of a sermon must lie,  
not in its fashion and manner, 
but in the truth which it contains.” 

 C. H. Spurgeon ~ 

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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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"The sweet psalmist of Israel."

"The sweet psalmist of Israel."

2 Samuel 23:1.

Among all the saints whose lives are recorded in Holy Writ, David possesses an experience of the most striking, varied, and instructive character. 

In his history we meet with trials and temptations not to be discovered, as a whole, in other saints of ancient times, and hence he is all the more suggestive a type of our Lord. 

David knew the trials of all ranks and conditions of men. Kings have their troubles, and David wore a crown: the peasant has his cares, and David handled a shepherd's crook: the wanderer has many hardships, and David abode in the caves of Engedi: the captain has his difficulties, and David found the sons of Zeruiah too hard for him. 

The psalmist was also tried in his friends, his counsellor Ahithophel forsook him, "He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted up his heel against me." His worst foes were they of his own household: his children were his greatest affliction. 

The temptations of poverty and wealth, of honour and reproach, of health and weakness, all tried their power upon him. He had temptations from without to disturb his peace, and from within to mar his joy. 

David no sooner escaped from one trial than he fell into another; no sooner emerged from one season of despondency and alarm, than he was again brought into the lowest depths, and all God's waves and billows rolled over him.

 It is probably from this cause that David's psalms are so universally the delight of experienced Christians. Whatever our frame of mind, whether ecstasy or depression, David has exactly described our emotions. 

He was an able master of the human heart, because he had been tutored in the best of all schools—the school of heart-felt, personal experience. 

As we are instructed in the same school, as we grow matured in grace and in years, we increasingly appreciate David's psalms, and find them to be "green pastures."

 My soul, let David's experience cheer and counsel thee this day.

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If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ,

 you can be accepted in to his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted.

"PRAYER"

Marvelous God Almighty, I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, who died for me to make me free of sin, I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, I confess that He is the son of God.

I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, not only to live on this earth, but to be expectant of my life in heaven.

In the precious name of Jesus I ask.

Amen..
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♥ <(((>< † ♥ † ><)))> ♥ 

“The true minister of Christ
 knows that the true value of a sermon must lie,  
not in its fashion and manner, 
but in the truth which it contains.” 

 C. H. Spurgeon ~ 

 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

 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 two 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. 

 DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ? ..

If you like to visit my other blogs, please click at the link and If not clickable, please copy and paste the address to your browser.

Thanks...

 ENGLISH: 
http://ambassadorforjesus.blogspot.com/

 http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.com/
 http://elshaddaitheallsufficientone.blogspot.com/ 
http://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/

SPANISH:

 http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ 

 TRANSLATORS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY LANGUAGE..

 TRADUCTORES AL ESPAÑOL O CUALQUIER OTRO LENGUAJE... 

 Don't forget to spread The Word of GOD by sharing today's passage with friends...

 Please share with your family and friends using small envelope (E-mail) next to a pencil, under my name at the bottom of post, or using the share link.. 

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" Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 

 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 

 This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain".

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We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. If you find any content on our website which infringes your copyrighted work, please contact us, we’ll be happy to verify and remove such content. Please do provide us the following details:

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Everything we do is for God Almighty's glory our creator and we pray for all the people that are making images available to continue spreading the Gospel. 

 Thank You and God Bless.

Blog created February 15/ 2010 .

Mightywarrior..

"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house."

"Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house."
Jeremiah 51:51.

In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. 

Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! 

What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. 

If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, He will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon His Church.

 To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.

Our zeal must, however, begin at home. 

Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. 

Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of His two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. 

Heartsearching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. "Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart."

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If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ,

 you can be accepted in to his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted.

"PRAYER"

Marvelous God Almighty, I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, who died for me to make me free of sin, I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, I confess that He is the son of God.

I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, not only to live on this earth, but to be expectant of my life in heaven.

In the precious name of Jesus I ask.

Amen..
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♥ <(((>< † ♥ † ><)))> ♥ 

“The true minister of Christ
 knows that the true value of a sermon must lie,  
not in its fashion and manner, 
but in the truth which it contains.” 

 C. H. Spurgeon ~ 

 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

 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 two 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. 

 DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ? ..

If you like to visit my other blogs, please click at the link and If not clickable, please copy and paste the address to your browser.

Thanks...

 ENGLISH: 
http://ambassadorforjesus.blogspot.com/

 http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.com/
 http://elshaddaitheallsufficientone.blogspot.com/ 
http://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/

SPANISH:

 http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ 

 TRANSLATORS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANY LANGUAGE..

 TRADUCTORES AL ESPAÑOL O CUALQUIER OTRO LENGUAJE... 

 Don't forget to spread The Word of GOD by sharing today's passage with friends...

 Please share with your family and friends using small envelope (E-mail) next to a pencil, under my name at the bottom of post, or using the share link.. 

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT 

" Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 

 Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 

 This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain".

 "COPYRIGHT POLICY" 

We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. If you find any content on our website which infringes your copyrighted work, please contact us, we’ll be happy to verify and remove such content. Please do provide us the following details:

 1) Your name, E-mail Address.

 2) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on your website. 

3) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on our website. 

 Some of images taken from Flickr under Creative Commons License and also the bank of free Creative images for non commercial usage... 

Everything we do is for God Almighty's glory our creator and we pray for all the people that are making images available to continue spreading the Gospel. 

 Thank You and God Bless.

Blog created February 15/ 2010 .

Mightywarrior..