SEPTEMBER 24

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Genesis 28:16

“Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Genesis 28:15

“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

Psalm 113:3

From the rising of the sun to its going down The Lord’s name is to be praised.

Hebrews 13:5 Amplified version (with full original language meanings)

“Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, “I will never [under any circumstances] desert you [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], nor will I forsake or let you down or relax My hold on you [assuredly not]!”

IPeter 3:12 

“For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and His ears are open to their prayers…..”

IICor 3:5

“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency  is of God”

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This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

PASTOR SPURGEON:

The Puritans believed in an ever-present God. Oh to be able to feel God everywhere, in the little as well as the great, in our rising up and our sitting down, in our going out and our coming in.  I cannot imagine a life more blessed or a spirit more related to the Spirit of the glorified than the mind and heart of the person who lives in God, who knows and feels that God is ever-present.

If you are in personal danger, or in the midst of a storm, or facing illness, and if you hear a voice saying, “Surely the Lord is in this place,” you will be perfectly at rest.  The anxious air grows pure if He is there.  Lightning cannot strike you, or if it does it will be joy.  The storm cannot devour you, nor can the hungry ocean engulf you , or if one does, it is happiness if God is there.  There is no need to fear.  Nervousness is wickedness when “the eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms;  He will thrust out the enemy from before you.” (Deuteronomy 33:27)

You may be in great poverty.  Your walls may be bare and your furnishings scant.  Still, you may say, “surely the Lord is in this place.”  Remember the old Christian’s exclamation, “What, all this and my God present with me besides?!”  Better to have poverty and feel His presence than to own the world’s riches and not know that He is here.

Some of you are in deep affliction. Your difficulties are so great that you do not know where things will end, and you are deeply depressed.  But remember, “Surely the Lord is in this place.”

Some of you are called to some extraordinary duty and do not feel strong enough.  Follow that call, for surely the Lord is in that place.  He will help you when the time comes. 

Deuteronomy 33:25

“…As your days, so shall your strength be.”

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