OCTOBER 28

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Mark 9:23

“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes” 

Ps 34:17-18

“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

 The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit.”

Philippians 4:12-13

“I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Jeremiah 29:11

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

Philippians 4:6-7

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

John 16:33

“ These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

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:

Joel 2:25 “Then I will compensate you for the years  that the swarming locust has eaten,

The creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust…”

Lost Years can never literally be restored.  Time past is gone, and you cannot have it back.  As you think about this, it will strike you that the locust did not eat the years:  they ate the fruit of the years.  There is a strange and wonderful way that God can give back wasted blessings, the sun ripened fruit of past years.

There is a power beyond all things that can work great wonders.  Who can make all devouring locust restore their prey?  God alone can do what seems impossible.   This is the promise of His grace;  “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten.” (Joel 2:25 above)  God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them.  God will grind sunlight out of your black nights.  In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight.  Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

I said this to a devoted Christian woman, who for three years had defied all attempts of comfort.  We prayed with her and her godly, gracious husband, a minister of Christ, had laid out his heart in an attempt to cheer her.  But she refused comfort.  The other day, to my great joy, I received a letter saying, “The Lord has opened the gates of my prison and my captivity is ended.  Though sick in body, that does not matter, I am restored in spirit.”  Yes, the Lord can release the captives and He does.

He will restore those years.

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