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A Thought From C. H. Spurgeon: Joyful Security Fear
of falling is wholesome. To be venturesome is no sign of wisdom. Times come
to us when we feel that we must go down unless we have a very special
support. Here we have it. God's right hand is a grand thing to lean upon.
Mind, it is not only His hand, though it keepeth
heaven and earth in their places, but His right hand: His power united with
skill, His power where it is most dexterous. Nay, this is not all; it is
written, "I will uphold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness." That hand which He uses to maintain His holiness and to
execute His royal sentences -- this shall be stretched out to hold up His
trusting ones. Fearful is our danger, but joyful is our security. The man
whom God upholds, devils cannot throw down. Weak
may be our feet, but almighty is God's right hand. Rough may be the road, but
Omnipotence is our upholding. We may boldly go forward. We shall not fall.
Let us lean continually where all things lean. God will not withdraw His
strength, for His righteousness is there as well. He will be faithful to His
promise, and faithful to His Son, and therefore faithful to us. How happy we
ought to be! Are we not so? |
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A Thought From Our Pastor: Be Amazed Today Psalms
118:23-24 "This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous
in our eyes. (24.) This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice
and be glad in it." I
used this scripture on our message board last week; however I would like to
take a deeper look into it. In verse 23 the Lord said “This is the LORD'S
doing; it is marvellous in our eyes” Indeed we
sometimes forget that everyday is the Lords, He not only creates the day but
has ordained every detail of it. Yes! This is a new day and the Lord our
Sovereign God has created it and nothing will happen today that is not in the
will of God. He will not be surprised by its developments, and nothing will
happen today that our Sovereign Lord does not know about. However, as we look
at verse 23 in more detail it says “it is marvellous
in our eyes” indeed it will be as the day unfolds, marvelous to our eyes.
Marvelous in that we have no idea what the day will hold for us all, but as
it unfolds it will be nothing less than amazing to our eyes. Today so much
will happen not only here at our church, in our city, in our state, in our
Nation, or in our world, but in our universe, and our Lord has
ordained it all. This is the mind of our God in that everyday, and every
detail of everyday is in the mind of God. He knows every hair that falls from
your head, and He knows every sparrow that falls and every detail of our day.
Let’s not worry about the day but rather let’s be amazed by what happens
today. Sit back and let your eye view the development of this day and every
day in amazement at what our great and wonderful Lord has ordained today for
us all. AMEN! |
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Thought for the week: HUMILITY Humility
may be defined to be a habit of mind and heart corresponding to our
comparative unworthiness and vileness before God, or a sense of our own
comparative meanness in His sight, with the disposition to a
behaviour answerable thereto. And a truly
humble man is sensible of the small extent of his knowledge, and the great
extent of his ignorance, and of the small extent of his understanding as
compared with the understanding of God. He is sensible of his weakness, how
little his strennth is, and how little he is able
to do. He is sensible of his natural distance from God, of his dependence on
Him, of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by
God's power that he is upheld and provided for; and that he needs God's
wisdom to lead and guide him, and his might to enable him to do what he ought
to do for Him. Humility
tends to prevent an aspiring and ambitious behaviour
amongst men. The man that is under the influence of an humble spirit is
content with such a situation amongst men as God is pleased to allot to him,
and is not greedy of honour, and does not affect to
appear uppermost and exalted above his neighbours.
Humility tends also to prevent an arrogant and assuming behaviour.
On the contrary, humility, disposes a person to a condescending behaviour to the meekest and lowest and to treat
inferiors with courtesy and affability, as being sensible of his own weakness
and despicableness before God. If
we then consider ourselves as the followers of the meek and lowly and
crucified Jesus, we shall walk humbly before God and man all the days of our
life on earth. Let
all be exhorted earnestly to seek much of an humble
spirit, and to endeavour to be humble in all their behaviour toward God and men. Seek for a deep and abiding
sense of your comparative meanness before God and man. Know God. Confess your
nothingness and ill-desert before Him. Distrust yourself. Rely Only On
Christ. Renounce all glory except from Him. Yield yourself heartily to His
will and service. Avoid an aspiring, ambitious, ostentatious, assuming,
arrogant, scornful, stubborn, willful leveling, self-justifying
behaviour; and strive for more and more of the
humble spirit that Christ manifested while He was on earth. Humilly is a most essential and distinguishing trait in
all true piety. Earnestly
seek then; and diligently and prayerfully cherish an humbled spirit, and God
shall walk with you here below; and when a few more days shall have passed,
He will recieve you to the honors bestowed on His
people at Christ's right hand. By: Jonathan Edwards |
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Happy Birthday: Dawana
Reigel February 15th |
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From God’s Word: 1 Timothy 4:6-8 “If thou put the brethren in
remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good
minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good
doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. (7.) But refuse profane and old
wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto
godliness. (8.) But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all
things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” |