NOVEMBER 10

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Job 11:7

“Can you search out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limits of the Almighty?”

Psalm 107:23-24

“Those who go down to the sea in ships,  who do business on great waters,

They see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.”

Deuteronomy 29:3

“the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.”

Luke 22:28-29

“But you are those who have continued with Me in My trials.  And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as My Father bestowed one upon Me,”

Psalm 81:7

“You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. ”

2 Timothy 4:17

“But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.”

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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:

Your faith prospers when everything is against you.  Your faith increases with every trial.  No flowers wear so lovely a blue as those that grow at the edge of a glacier.  No stars shine so bright as those that glisten in the polar sky.  No water is sweeter than that which springs in a desert oasis.  No faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs in adversity. 

Tested faith brings experience, and experience makes faith real.  You will never know the bitterness of sin or the sweetness of pardon until you have felt both.  You will never know your own weakness until you have been compelled to go through the rivers.  You will never know God’s strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

All the talk about religion that has not been personally experienced is just talk.  If we have little experience, we cannot speak so positively as those whose experience has been deep and profound.  Once in the early days of my ministry, I was preaching on God’s faithfulness in trials, and my venerable grandfather was sitting in the pulpit behind me.  He suddenly stood up, came to the pulpit and said, “My grandson can preach this as a matter of theory.  But I can tell it to you from experience because I have done business on great waters.  I have seen the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep” (Psalm 107: 23-24).  There is an accumulation of force in the testimony of one who has passed through great trials.

Faith increases in firmness, assurance, and intensity when it is exercised with trials.  Praise Him for your trials, and you will have more and more of God’s blessings until your faith will move mountains and nothing will be impossible.  (Matthew 17:20).

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