TODAY'S PROMISE

 

“Give your burdens to the LORD,

and he will take care of you.

He will not permit the godly

to slip and fall.”

(Psalms 55:22 NLT). 

SAVED FROM THE COMING TERRORS.

We are all going to die someday.

We all know that.  All our lives we have been seeing

people of all ages die around us.  So that is nothing new.

God himself said;

"And just as each person is destined to 

die once and after that comes judgment,"

(Hebrews 9:27 NLT). 

But it is that coming judgment that should worry us.

Everyone of us is going to stand in judgement before

Jesus Christ after we die.  And if you will read in your

Bible what God said is coming on this old unbelieving

world when Christ returns it should scare you to death.

The terrors that are going to be poured out on this 

old world are unimaginable.

"And they speak of how you are looking

forward to the coming of God's Son from

heaven - Jesus, whom God raised from the

dead.  He is the one who has rescued us from

the terrors of the coming judgment." 

( 1 Thessalonians 1:10 NLT) 

But catch that last statement.

"He is the one who has rescued us from

the terrors of the coming judgment."

PRAISE GOD.

If my hope and trust is in Jesus Christ and 

the fact that he died for me I do not need to

be terrified of standing before Jesus Christ

in judgement nor of the terrors this old world

is going to have poured out on it.

 

TODAY'S QUOTE

“God took care of His people

who lived by the Word and

had simple faith.”

- A.C. Valdez in

Fire on Azusa Street.

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HOW CAN HE TAKE IT?

HOW CAN HE TAKE IT?

I am thinking of the Apostle Paul.  From the very start of

his Christian life it was a constant fight.  A few days after

Paul's encounter with Jesus God sent Ananias over to pray

for Paul.  God told Ananias when he sent him to Paul;

"And I will show him how much he must

suffer for my name's sake."

(Acts 9:16 NLT)  

If you have read the book of Acts you know that from

the day Paul became a Christian and he begin to speak

out for Christ the Jews tried to kill him.  In fact they kept

trying to kill him in one way or the other thought out 

Paul's entire life.   They would follow him from one town

to another staring up trouble for Paul.

Is it any wonder when I begin reading in 2  Corinthians

Paul said;

"We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond

our ability to endure, and we thought we

would never live through it.  In fact, we

expected to die.  But as a result, we stopped

relying on ourselves and learned to rely on

God, who raises the dead.  And he did rescue

us from mortal danger, and he will rescue us

again."

(2 Corinthians 1:8-10 NLT)

Being as I have lived past my three score and ten

years.  Even well past my four score years I can

so well relate to Pauls comment in 2 Corinthians

chapter five.

"While we live in these earthly bodies, we

groan and sigh, but it's not that we want

to die and get rid of these bodies that

clothe us.  Rather we want to put on our

new bodies so that these dying bodies will

be swallowed up by life." 

(2 Corinthians 5:4 NLT)

So where does Paul go when in a life that is 

constantly trying to destroy him when he is 

discouraged?

"But God, who encourages those who

are discouraged, ..."

(2 Corinthians 7:6 NLT)

Yes, I was sorta at a low point when I read over

all this.

"BUT GOD".

Where do you turn when you are discouraged?

 

TODAY'S PROMISE

 

“So humble yourselves before 

God.  Resist the devil, and he will 

flee from you.  Come close to God 

and God will come close to you.”

(James 4:7,8 NLT)

DIRECTION IN A MIXED UP WORLD

I know.  I know.  I have used this photo before.

But I love it because of the truth contained in it.

This morning while reading Psalms chapter 73

again I was impressed with the questions in the 

mind of the writer.  Was his living for God all

in vain?  He apparently was a poor man trying

to live for God, and all the wicked people seemed

to be having it all.  They were rich, fat, prosperous

and enjoying every minute of it.

You know how it is.  You are barley scrimping

by trying to live for God while corrupt politicians

and business men seem to be getting it all.

But the writer of this Psalms gives us the clue.

"So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper.

But what a difficult task it is!

Then I went into your sanctuary O God,

and I finally understood the destiny of the wicked.

Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send

them sliding over the cliff to destruction." 

(Psalms 73:16 - 18 NLT) 

   

Today I would hate to even use a Church as an

example of a Sanctuary.  So many are teaching the 

precepts of man rather than the teaching of God.

Our clue is that child in the image.

GET THE BOOK OUT AND READ IT FOR YOURSELF. 

   

TODAY'S QUOTE

 

“A boys’ team hired a wizened fisherman

to take them to an island in a small boat

even though there was a squall.  The boys

prayed.  And the white-capped water smoothed

In front of them.  The amazed man ran ahead

when they landed, calling people to come

hear the young ‘men of God’“.

- Loren Cunningham in

Is That Really You God.