NOVEMBER 26

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Job 39:13-15

“The wings of the ostrich wave proudly,

But are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s?

For she leaves her eggs on the ground,

And warms them in the dust;

She forgets that a foot may crush them,

Or that a wild beast may break them.”

Hebrews 1:3

“who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,”

Colossians 1:16

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.”

Colossians 1:20

“and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

John 10:4

“And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.”

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep”

Psalm 95:7-8a

“For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.

Today, if you will hear His voice:  Do not harden your hearts …”

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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:

John 10:14

“I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own”

God has not left us.  He has not left us as the ostrich leaves her eggs on the ground to be crushed by a foot. (Job 39:13-15—above).   God is watching over us every moment.  He exercises an unceasing care and a watchful providence; therefore, we should praise Him.

Some think of God as having taken the universe like a watch, wound it, and placed it under His pillow and gone to sleep.  This is not true.  God’s finger is on every wheel of the world’s machinery.  God’s power is the force in the laws of the universe, laws that would be dead if He were not powerfully active.

Child of Adam, you are not rocked in your cradle by wild winds but by the hand of Love.  Day by Day God gives us our daily bread and clothes us.  He gives breath for our  lungs, and blood for our beating hearts.  He keeps us alive.  If His power was withdrawn we would immediately sink into death.

“I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep” (John 10:14).  You are the sheep of His hand.  The hourly provision, the constant protection, the wise and judicious governing, the royal leadership through the desert to the pastures on the other side of Jordan, the power to chase away the wolf, and the skills to find pasture in the wilderness, all flow from the fact that He is your Shepherd.

PRAISE HIM!

 ADORE THE GOD who keeps you living and feeds you from the storehouse of divine grace.

 SERVE  HIM with all your heart, soul, and strength.  “You are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

John 10:27-30

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.    My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.  I and My Father are one.”

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