Forgive!

Are you holding something against someone—anyone—today? Let it go! And forgive that person. Maybe you haven’t even talked to that individual in a very long time—there is no better time than right now. The other party may not repent, but you MUST extend the offer of forgiveness, just as my precious Saviour did upon the cross of Calvary when he died in my place. If you do not, you will experience the same thing as the man in Matthew 18:34, for God will deliver you to the tormentors. If you are a true believer you will not lose your salvation, but God will not permit you the assurance of that. If you are holding an unforgiving spirit you have no right to call yourself a child of God, for “if a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (1 Jn 4:20) Bitterness is the result of an unforgiving spirit, and it will destroy you. This is a solemn warning to all of us, and we MUST follow its admonition. “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” (Heb 12:15) -A.N. ScharfAndrew Scharf  at 10:16 PM

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We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19


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"Be of good cheer."

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?" 

(Psalm 42:11)

David acted with much wisdom; for, since the devil, in seeking to discourage us, appeals to our feelings rather than to our reason, a little commonsense and practical logic will often times lift the gloom and dispel the mists.

The only real occasion for despondency in a Christian is sin; everything else may be brought to the Lord in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.  And if you have the priceless possession of an uncondemning heart, you may take it for certain that the attempt to dishearten you, is the enemy's endeavour to paralyze your energies and to thwart the purposes of God in your life.

A depressed Christian is a prisoner of war, under the power of the enemy, unable efficiently to serve his rightful King.  Satan knows this all too well; for this is his very purpose in all the attacks of depression that come upon us.  He knows that temptations from without no longer have the effect upon us that they once had, and that the worker in the vineyard will not likely be tempted away from his appointed task by the attractions or the opinions of the world.  And so he concentrates on the attempt to get us discouraged, dejected, depressed.  (Heaven's Cure for Earth's Care)

N.J. Hiebert - 4753 

Because He chose to...

The Touch of the Master's Hand

Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old violin, but held it up with a smile; "What am I bidden, good folks," he cried, "Who'll start the bidding for me?" "A dollar, a dollar"; then two!" "Only two? Two dollars, and who'll make it three? Three dollars, once; three dollars twice; going for three.." But no, from the room, far back, a gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow; Then, wiping the dust from the old violin, and tightening the loose strings, he played a melody pure and sweet as caroling angel sings. The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low, said; "What am I bid for the old violin?" And he held it up with the bow. A thousand dollars, and who'll make it two? Two thousand! And who'll make it three? Three thousand, once, three thousand, twice, and going and gone," said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not quite understnad what changed its worth." Swift came the reply: "The touch of a master's hand." And many a man with life out of tune, and battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin, A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine; a game - and he travels on. "He is going" once, and "going twice, He's going and almost gone." But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd never can quite understand the worth of a soul and the change that's wrought by the touch of the Master's hand. Myra 'Brooks' Welch

So what is the word,"contentious" refering to in 1 Cor.11?

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We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19


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"Be of good cheer."

"Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again."

(John 3:7)

No more certain it is that it is something outside the thermometer 

that produces a change in the thermometer, 

than it is something outside the soul of man that produces a moral change upon him.  

That he must be susceptible to that change, that he must be a party to it, goes without saying; 

But that neither his aptitude not his will can produce it, is equally certain. 

Growth is not voluntary, it takes place, it happens, it is wrought upon matter, 

So here, "Ye must be born again" - we cannot born ourselves.  

"Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed."  

We are subjects to a transforming influence, 

We do not transform ourselves.  

(A Thought for Every Day - Henry Drummond)

N.J. Hiebert - 4743

All may come, (Rev.22: 17)
But none will; (John 3: 23)
Some shall come,
on account of the
sovereign power of God
acting to draw them.(Jn.6: 24)

All may come,
None will,
Some shall.