DECEMBER 6

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Psalm 42:8

“The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me—A prayer to the God of my life.”

Colossians 1:17

“And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.”

Psalm 118:6

“The Lord is on my side;  I will not fear.  What can man do to me?”

Ephesians 4:6

“one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.”

Psalm 124:2

“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,  when men rose up against us,”

Psalm 48:14

“For this is God,  Our God forever and ever;  He will be our guide even to death.”

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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:

You may assume that those of us who are always before the public speaking of the blessed promises of God are never downcast or heartbroken.  You are very mistaken!  We have been there, and perhaps we know how to say a word in season to any who are now going through similar experiences.  With many enterprises on my hands, far too great for my own unaided strength, I am often driven to fall flat on this promise of my God in Hebrews 13:5:

“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

If I feel that any plan has been of my devising, or that I sought my own honor, then I know that the plan must rightly fail.  But when I can prove that God has thrust it on me, that I am moved by a divine impulse and not my own feelings and wishes, then how can my God forsake me in it?    How  can He lie, however weak I may be?  How is it possible for Him to send His servant to battle and not comfort him with reinforcements when the battle goes hard?  God is not David when he put Uriah in the front lines and left him to die in 2 Samuel 11:15.   God will never desert any of His servants!

Dear brothers and sisters, if the Lord calls you to things you cannot do, He will give you the strength to do them.  If He should push you still further, until your difficulties increase and your burdens become heavy, “as your days, so shall your strength be.” (Deuteronomy 33:25).  You shall march with the indomitable spirit of those who have tried and trusted the naked arm of the Eternal God.

“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Then what is the trouble?  Though all the world were against you, you could shake all the world as Samson shook the lion in Judges 14:6.

Roll this promise under your tongue.  It is a sweet food:

Romans 8:31

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

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