Whosoever...

Saturday, July 6, 2013

All things work together...

"Thou couldst have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above."(John 19:11)

One who was passing through deep waters of affliction wrote to a friend: 
"Is it not a glorious thing to know that, no difference how unjust a thing may be, or how absolutely it may seem to be from Satan, by the time it reaches us it is God's will for us, and will work for good to us?  For all things work together for good to us who love God.
And even of the betrayal, Christ said, "The cup which My Father gave me, shall I not drink it?"
We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will.  All the attacks that Satan, through others' sin, can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessings on the way.   (H.W.S.)
In the center of the circle of the Will of God I stand:There can come no second causes, all must come from His dear hand.All is well! for 'tis my Father who my life hath planned.
Shall I pass through waves of sorrow? then I know it will be best;Though I cannot tell the reason, I can trust, and so am blest.God is Love, and God is faithful, so in perfect Peace I rest.
With the shade and with the sunshine, with the joy and with the pain,Lord, I trust Thee! both are needed, each Thy wayward child to train.Earthly loss, did we but know it, often means our heavenly gain.
(I.G.W.) (Streams in the Desert)
N.J. Hiebert - 5235

Exodus 14:14
14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Lamentations 3: 36

36. To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. (KJV)

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Judge your state...

"Be of good cheer." "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses." (Colossians 2:13) There is no depth of sin and folly into which a Christian is not capable of plunging, if not kept by the grace of God. Even the blessed apostle himself, when he came down from the third heaven, needed a "thorn in the flesh" to keep him from being "exalted above measure." We might suppose that a man who had been up in that bright and blessed region could never again feel the stirrings of pride. But the plain fact is that even the third heavens cannot cure the flesh. It is utterly incorrigible and must be judged and kept under, day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment, else it will cut out plenty of sorrowful work for us. Still, the believer's standing is in Christ, forever justified, accepted, perfect in Him. And, moreover, he must ever judge his state by his standing, never his standing by his state. To attempt to reach the standing by my state is legalism; to refuse to judge my state by the standing is antinomianism. Both - though so diverse one from the other - are alike false, alike opposed to the truth of God, alike offensive to the Holy Ghost, alike removed from the divine idea of "A man in Christ." (C.H.M.) Psalm 145:18-19 18. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

We have an anchor...

We have an anchor that keeps the soul,
Steadfast and sure, as the billows roll,
Fastened to a Rock that cannot move,
Grounded firm and deep in the Saviour's blood.

Friday, May 10, 2013

Life is like coffee...video

http://www.flickspire.com/m/LifeSecrets/LifeIsLikeCoffee