GOD’S WORD FOR  MARCH 19

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.  Besides his many ministries, and many books, Pastor Lutzer was Senior Pastor at Moody Church in Chicago for 36 years and now serves as Pastor Emeritus there.  He is  Chancelor and a former professor at Moody Bible Institute, where he taught Theology and Ministry, and now has numerous radio teachings.

DON’T BE EASILY SATISFIED

1 Corinthians 2:4

“My speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power

D.L. MOODY

What the Church of God needs today is the old power that the apostles had:  if we have that in our churches, there will be new life.  Then we will have new ministers – the same old ministers renewed with power, filled with the Spirit.

I remember when, in Chicago, many were toiling in the work and it seemed as though the car of salvation didn’t move on, a minister began to cry out from the very depths of his heart, “Oh, God, put new ministers in every pulpit.”  The next Monday, I heard two or three men say, “We had a new minister last Sunday – the same old minister, but he had got new power.”  I firmly believe that is what we want today all over the land.  We want new ministers in the pulpit and new people in the pews.  We want people quickened by the Spirit of God.

ERWIN LUTZER

Believers need a “quickening.”  A constant filling of the Spirit every day.  We need Christians whose hearts match their lifestyle.  Jesus told the Sardian church, “Wake up” in Revelation 3:1-3.  Though outwardly appearing alive, God said, “You are spiritually dead.”  They had prosperity and health, but they lacked spiritual vitality.  Physically active; spiritually dead.

Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and in effect said, “You sing the right songs, you hear the right words, you honor Me with your lips, but your heart is far from Me (Matthew 15:1-9).  That can apply to anyone of us.  If it does, we are quenching the Holy Spirit.  We can grieve the blessed Holy Spirit through our indifference, hypocrisy, and failure to deal with known sin (Ephesians 4:25-30).  My plea to all of us is to be renewed through repentance and submission to receive what Moody called, “the quickening of the Spirit of God.”

PRAYER

Father, may I wake up to the reality of my condition and repent of my sin.

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Mark 9:24

    The father instantly cried out, ‘I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief!’”

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James 1:5

    If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and He will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.

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1 Corinthians 15:58

    Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

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Hebrews 10:23

    Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.

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Psalm 139:1-24

O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. …

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Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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Luke 5:32

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.

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James 4:10

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

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2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

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