OCTOBER 10

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Psalm 139:9-10

“If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,  even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.”

Ephesians 3:17-19

“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you  might be filled with all the fullness of God.”

Jeremiah 31:3

“The LORD has appeared of old unto me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.”

John 14:21

 “He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest (reveal) myself to him.”

Romans 8:38, 39                                                                                         

“ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Psalm 30:7

“Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong;  You hid Your face, and I was troubled.”

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:

If you were to remove from the Bible all the stories about afflicted men and women, all the psalm of the sorrowful, all the promises, for the distressed, and all the passages for the children of grief, the Bible would be a small book.

It is clear not only that the poor and needy are observed by our great King (Ps 139:3—above), but also that the Holy Spirit’s pen has been greatly occupied in recording their affairs.  You who are poor, needy, sick, and sorrowing:  may the Lord comfort your heart.  On that day, when history’s great books are read, your story will appear, and God will get as great a glory out of what He has done for you as from any deeds of His love that are recorded in the Bible.

In the New Testament, our Lord Jesus Christ lived among fishermen and peasants, and He called the poor to be His disciples.  “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are.” (1 Cor. 1:27).

When your situation is recorded on high, it will be worthwhile to be among the poor , the despised, and the sad, for you will magnify the dignity of our Lord.

Praying in the Holy Spirit, I say this to bless and cheer some depressed saint.

Wherever you are, your heavenly Father watches over you.  He looks on you as if there were no other created being in the entire world.  His eye is fixed on you every moment, and He died for you personally.

Psalm 139:9-10 says: “If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.”

The eye of God is everywhere.   Wherever you are, whatever your case, God will be with you.  His eye is on the wedding, the funeral, the cradle and the grave. In all seasons, always, in all dangers, and in all regions of the earth, there is the hand of God.

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