OCTOBER 29

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Hebrews 4:16

“Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

James 4:3

“You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”

Romans 9:23

“and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory,”

1Corinthians 3:21 (Amp)

“So let no one boast in men [about their wisdom, or of having this or that one as a leader]. For all things are yours, (if you are Christ’s).”

Galatians 5:22

“ But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

2 Peter 1:3

“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,”

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:

Obadiah 17 “But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,  and there shall be holiness;  The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.”

If you have acknowledged that you are a sinner, as every person from all time has been, and that Christ suffered so you don’t have to, for that sin, and if you have accepted that substitution and determined to turn from sin and live for Him, then……….Christ is yours………….He is ours, those of us who have taken that step.

But who knows all that is ours in Christ?  He is our jewelry vault, but we do not open its door and take out all its treasures.  We see the blessings of the covenant, but we do not feed on it as we might.  We do not drink deep from it and satisfy our souls.  We don’t fully enjoy our possessions.

It is your high privilege, if you have been saved,  to have access to the Mercy Seat, but do you use that access?  Do you come often and boldly to the throne of grace?  Do you make the most use of prayer?  Do you really stand where God would have you stand?  Are you as rich as Christ has made you?

We may have great possessions and yet be practically poor because we are miserly with our spending.  All things are ours in Christ, yet we live as if nothing were ours.  Like a horse shut out of the pasture, we nibble around the edges; far better to be like sheep that enter and lie down in green pastures .

Oh for grace to appropriate those treasures of the covenant that make the soul “rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1 Peter 1:8)  I pray that we will not look in the windows of the banquet hall but that we will sit at the table and possess our possessions.

Why should we hang our heads when the Lord loves us?  We should have His joy in us, “that our joy may be full.”  We know that Jehovah is our strength and our song, but we do not possess our possessions.

Let our prayer be that we may use and enjoy to the utmost all that the Lord has given in grace.

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