NOVEMBER 6

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Ps 121:1-2

“I will lift up my eyes to the hills— From whence comes my help?

My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.”

Jeremiah 33:3

“ ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’”

Psalm 55:22

“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved”

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.”

Psalm 34:17

“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,

And delivers them out of all their troubles.”

1Peter 5:7

“casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

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:

I beg you to believe that God is in the little things, even the little troubles that can annoy the  most.    The pebble in your shoe makes you limp but you can jump over great stones.

God arranges the smallest things.  Take little troubles as they come, and remember them to your God because they come from Him.  Nothing that concerns His people is small to God.  Your anxieties are not too small for His notice, for “the very hairs of your head are all numbered.”  (Matthew 10:30).  You may pray to Him  about your smallest grief.  If not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from your father’s will (Matthew 10:29), then you have reason to see that He arranges the smallest events in your career.  So accept them with joy.  This is a truth on which you may implicitly rely.  Think about it until you lull the sharpest pain, calm the most feverish excitement, and obtain the sweetest rest that a weary, restless spirit can indulge in.

This is the antidote of fear:  God appoints everything in the future, so rejoice that everything is in the hand of the great King.  The Lord is King of kings!!!  REJOICE!!

The Lord is King; who then shall dare

Resist His will, distrust His care,

Or murmur at His wise decrees,

Or doubt His royal promises?

OH!  When His wisdom can mistake;

His might decay, His love forsake;

Then may His children cease to sing,

The Lord Omnipotent is King.

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