GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 6

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GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 6 ~ ~ Zephaniah 3:17 ~ ~ “The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with (loud) singing.”

From the book, We Shall See God— by Randy Alcorn with Charles Spurgeon sermons.

Joining Heaven’s Celebration Now—part one

SPURGEON

For all eternity we will rejoice in the redemptive work of Christ. But we don’t have to wait until then to start the party. We should get a head start on heaven by celebrating here and now.

I have often said to you that when the Lord made the material world, there was not much in it to touch His spiritual nature, so He simply spoke and said, in plain prose, “It is good.” That was all: He said it was good. But when the Lord makes the new heavens and a new earth, when He is finished, when the bride of Christ shall be brought to Him, “He will exult over you with loud singing.” Did you ever get into your hearts the idea of the Lord God singing? God singing over His church, over His Jerusalem, over His new creation! GOD SINGING!!!

I can understand the angels singing for joy over God’s work, but here is GOD singing over His work. I will tell you something more wonderful than that: It is that you should be a part of that work and that God should sing over you!! Is He not the Father, and does not the Father sing over His prodigal son who wandered but came home? Is He not the Savior, and will not the Savior, Who bought us with His blood, sing over us who were purchased with His agonizing death? He is the Spirit, and shall not the Spirit, who has striven with us and wrought all our works in us, sing when His work is done and we are sanctified?

Father, when Your eternal purposes are all fulfilled, You will rejoice over Your people! Son of God, Redeemer, when all Your agonies shall have been rewarded in the salvation of Your redeemed, You will rejoice over Your chosen! Holy Spirit, when all Your bending down and indwelling within us shall have accomplished its design, You will rejoice in Your people!

Come now, beloved, rejoice in unity with the divine heart! When the father found his son, he made the whole household merry. Shouldn’t we be merry? When the woman found her coin, she called together her friends and neighbors and said, “Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.” (Luke 15:9). Shall not we rejoice with the Spirit over the lost that has been found? When the shepherd brought home his sheep, he said, “Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.” (Luke 15:6) Come, then, rejoice with the Father, rejoice with the Son, rejoice with the Spirit.

And if the Lord God, as the Trinity in unity, invites us to be glad and rejoice in that which He creates, let us not hold back! Let us sing of His matchless love and new-creating power and infinite wisdom. I am sure you will sing—you must sing even now—if you know yourselves to be part of this celebration.

Nobody will ever rejoice in this new-creating work of God while he is rejoicing in his own works and trusting in himself and his own merits. It is a sign of grace when a man is sick of self and is in harmony with God. When he ceases to rejoice in what he can do and comes to rejoice in what God has done and is doing, then a change has been made in him.

Some of you are trying to save yourselves and make yourselves right before God. It cannot be done. You must be made new by a power you have not within yourself—by a divine power. You must be born again, and this is the work of God, not your work. We shall know this heavenly work is begun in you when you cease from rejoicing in anything that you are or can be of yourselves and then shall you with us rejoice in that which God creates in you.

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Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near

John 3:3

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ps 34:10

…. those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.

1Samuel 2:1

And Hannah prayed and said:

“My heart rejoices in the Lord;
My strength is exalted in the Lord.
I smile at my enemies,
Because I rejoice in Your salvation.”

John 16:22

Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.