GOD’S WORD FOR MAY 15

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES:

JESUS, YOU…… HAVE DEALT WELL WITH ME –Ps 119:65

 JESUS, YOU…… HAVE MADE AND FASHIONED ME WITH YOUR HANDS—Ps 119:73

 JESUS, YOU……  (YOUR)  WORD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN FOREVER.  Ps 119:89

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THE WORD FOR TODAY~ ~ 1 Corinthians 1:9 ~ ~ “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”

We are continuing our reading in “God Himself Will Establish You in Him.” ..the 12th chapter in Andrew Murray’s classic and beloved book, “Abide in Christ.”

Many can testify to the blessedness of such faith (that God delights to keep us in Him), and the experience it brings.  What peace and rest to know that there is a Husbandman who cares for the branch, to see that it grows stronger, and that its union with the Vine, who watches over every hindrance and danger, who supplies every needed aid, becomes more perfect!  What peace and rest, to give up our abiding into the care of God fully and finally, and never have a wish or thought, never to offer a prayer or engage in an exercise connected with it, without first having the glad remembrance that what we do is only the manifestation of what God is doing in us!!

Establishing us in Christ is His work:  He accomplishes it by stirring us to watch and wait and work:  but this He can do with  power only as we cease interrupting Him by our self-working – as we accept, in faith, the dependent posture that honors Him and opens the heart to let Him work.  How such a faith frees the soul from care and responsibility!  In the midst of the rush and bustle of the world’s stirring life, amid the subtle and ceaseless temptations of sin, amid all the daily cares and trials that so easily distract and lead to failure, how blessed it would be to be an established Christian – always abiding in Christ!  How blessed even to have the faith that one can surely become it – that the attainment is within our reach!

Dear believer, the blessing is indeed within your reach.  God establishes you with us in Christ.  What I want you to take in is this:  believing this promise will not only give you comfort, but it will also be the means of your obtaining your desire.  You know how Scripture teaches us that in all God’s leadings of His people, faith has everywhere been the one condition of the manifestation of His power.

  Faith is ceasing from all nature’s efforts and all other dependence;

 Faith is confessed helplessness casting itself upon God’s promise and claiming its fulfillment; 

Faith is putting ourselves quietly into God’s hands for Him to do His work.

What you and I need now is to take time until this truth stands out before us in all its spiritual brightness; it is God Almighty, God the faithful and gracious One, who has undertaken to establish me in Christ Jesus.

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