OCTOBER 18

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

2Corinthians 1:20

“For all the promises of God in Him are yeah, and in Him Amen, unto

the Glory of God by us.”

Romans 5:8

“But God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Jeremiah 31:3

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

Psalm 84:11

 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” ( who obey Him)

Exodus 33:17

“And the LORD said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken: for you have found grace in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Proverbs 8:35

“For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord.”

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:

Jesus Christ is with you in every pang that rips your heart and in every pain that tears your body. 

Do you feel the sorrows of poverty?  Jesus said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” (Matthew 8:20). 

Are you sorrowing?  “Jesus wept” at Lazarus’ tomb (John 11:35.

Have you been slandered and hurt?  He said, “Reproach has broken My heart, and I am full of heaviness.” (Psalm 69:20).

Have you been betrayed?  Remember, He had a friend who sold Him for the price of a slave. (Matthew 26:15).

Every stormy sea that has tossed you has roared around His boat too.  There is no adversity so dark, so deep, or so apparently pathless that you cannot discover the Crucified One’s footsteps when you kneel.  In the fires, in the river, in the cold night, and under the burning sun. He is there.

In losses, and troubles, you realize His presence more conspicuously than ever.  He has promises with the specific names of your troubles. 

 To meet the doubt of His troubled child He says, (Isaiah 43:1) “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.”

Isaiah 43:2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.”

Our way to heaven lies through the flood, and through the flood we will go.   God has ordained that no trouble, however great, and no persecution, however terrible, will stop the onward march of the saved person predestined to eternal joy.

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