MY REFUGE IN THE STORM

"O LORD, your are my God;

I will exalt you, I will praise your name;

for you have done wonderful things;

your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

For you have made of a city an heap;

of a fortified city a ruin;

a palace of strangers to be no city;

it will never be built.

Therefore will the strong people glorify you,

the city of the terrible nations will fear you.

For you have been a strength to the poor,

a strength to the needy in his distress,

a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat

when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm

 against the wall."

(Isaiah 25:1-4 AKJV)

TODAY'S PROMISE

"For the LORD takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory."
(Psalms 149:4 RSV)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNB)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

QUIETNESS

"Better is an handful with quietness,

than both the hands full with 

travail and vexation of spirit."

(Ecclesiastes 4:6 KJV)

THE OTHER WORLD

No.  I am not a photographer.
At the very best I would only be a "Picture taker."

But I am an old man with a camera who likes to play.

I wanted to try infrared photography (Picture taking.)

So this old man bought an old camera and made a few changes

so it could take infrared pictures.

The scene above is at the Buffalo river with the 

camera in it's normal mode.  That is showing what 

your eyes can see.

The scene below is standing at the same spot with

the camera in infrared mode.  It is taking pictures of

light waves or rays that  your eyes cannot see.

They say that infrared is part of the invisible spectrum.

Do you realize that there is a whole world out there

that you cannot see?  And nobody else knew it existed

until the astronomer William Herschel discovered

infrared in 1800.

And did you know that there is a spiritual world out 

there that you cannot see either.

Believe it or not, God is.

And there is a devil

and a heaven

and a hell.

Just like most modern digital cameras have as filter over the

sensor to filter out infrared light.  God's enemy, the devil,

blinds the eyes of people to the fact that there is a 

 spiritual world.  And that the spiritual world is more

real and permanent that the visible world.

TODAY'S PROMISE

"They kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.
The LORD is faithful in all his words,
and gracious in all his deeds.
The LORD upholds all who are falling,
and raises up all who are bowed down."
(Psalms 145:13,14 RSV)


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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNB)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

UNANSWERED PRAYER?

"Behold,

the LORD'S hand is not shortened that it cannot save;

neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear:

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,

and your sins have hid his face from you,

that he will not hear."

(Isaiah 59:1,2 KJV)

TODAY'S PROMISE

"The LORD is good,

a strong hold in the day of trouble;

and he knows them that trust in him."

(Nahum 1:7 AKJV)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNB)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

LEAVING IT BEHIND

"There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun:

riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

and those riches were lost in a bad venture;

and he is father of a son, 

but he has nothing in his hand.

As he came from his mother's womb

he shall go again, 

naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil,

which he may carry away in his hand."

(Ecclesiastes 5:13-15 RSV)

TODAY'S PROMISE

"But from there you will seek the LORD your God,
and you will find him,
if you search after him with all your heart
and with all your soul."
(Deuteronomy 4:29 RSV)

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"The promises of the Lord can be trusted;

they are as genuine as silver refined

seven times in the furnace."

(Psalms 12:6 GNB)

1. Meditate on God's Promises.

2. Plead the Promises at the throne of Grace.

3. Act in Faith that God Will Perform His Promises.

(William Gurnall)

THE BLESSED PERSON

"Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel

of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD;

and on his law he meditates day and night.

And he shall be like as tree planted by the rivers

of water, that yields his fruit in his season;

his leaf also will not wither;

and whatever he does will prosper.

The ungodly are not so: but are like chaff

which the wind drives away.

Therefore the ungodly will not stand

in the judgment, nor sinners in the 

congregation of the righteous.

For the LORD knows the way of the 

righteous: but the way of the ungodly

will perish."

(Psalms ch. 1 AKJV)