DECEMBER 17

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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2 Corinthians 13:4

“We shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.”

John 15:5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Acts 17:28

“for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’”

Ezekiel 36:27

“I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.”

Galatians 5:25

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

Luke 17:10

“So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’ ”

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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:

Much of life’s happiness depends on little things going well.  If God ordained only the great events but left the little things to chance, we would be most unhappy.  When God’s lovingkindness gilds the full landscape with sunshine, it also has a sunbeam for the tiniest insect and the sun ray for the eye of the smallest bird.

Let our love to God go into the munutest details.  Let us be earnest in all essentials but never indifferent to the non-essentials.  God’s lovingkindness goes into detail, and so should my obedience.  May gratitude to God permeate my entire life; may it flood all my faculties, and may it saturate me through and through.

Great God, Your love surrounds me.  I breathe it.  I live on it.  I shall die in it.  I shall live forever in it.  It will make my bliss eternal.

  I give my soul to You in obedience.  I give up my thoughts, work, desires, judgments, tastes, and everything else to Your sweet love, which so wonderfully embraces and surrounds me.

There is a logical consistency between thinking on the love of God and seeing its details, on marking its attributes and ordering our lives accordingly, in the way of truth.  One is the natural cause from which the other is sure to spring. 

“We shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.” (2 Corinthians 13:4).

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