DECEMBER 1

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Psalm 42:8                                                                                                      

“Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.”

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Romans 8:38, 39                                                                                         

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Proverbs 3:3

“Do not let kindness and truth leave you;

Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of your heart.”

Psalm 84:11

 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Job 10:12 

“You have granted me life and favor, and your presence has preserved my spirit.”

Psalm 5:12

“For You bless the righteous person, LORD,  You surround him with favor as with a shield.”

James 1:12

“Blessed is the man who endures under trials; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”

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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.

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PASTOR SPURGEON:

God gives a deeper and stronger grace to those who endure exceedingly great trials.  There is a glorious aurora in the frigid zone, where stars glisten in the northern skies with unusual splendor.  Old Rutherford had a saying that when he was cast into the cellars of affliction he remembered that the great King always kept His wine there.  So he looked to drink “of the well-refined wines on the lees.”  (Isaiah 25:6)

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.  My companions in affliction, you know that this is true.  You whose bones are ready to come through the skin from lying long on a weary bed. You who have seen your earthly goods carried away.  You who have gone to gravesites so often that you feared your last earthly friend would be carried away by unpitying death.  You have proved that He is a faithful God.  As your trials increase, “He gives more grace.” (James 4:6)

My prayer is that some prisoner of the Lord will have a joyous promise.  You who are burdened with present heaviness will hear Him say in a soft whisper, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know.”  (Jeremiah 33:3).

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