Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.

George Mueller
more famous quotes

*****************************************************

Do my requests please God?

1 Kings 2-3

• God said to Solomon: "Ask what I shall give thee." V 5 - What a blessed thought!  To think that God would ask one of His creatures to ask Him, the God of all creation, to ask what He should give to the creature that He already owns?  Prayer is asking and receiving. 
• What Solomon asked for pleased God V10 - Do I ask for things that are pleasing to  the Lord?  Are my requests selfish or God honoring? (As I pray I should remember to ask God to Search me and see if there be any wicked way in me)  I need to ask for guidance in my prayer life that I pray the things that God wants me to pray, that is, God honoring requests and not selfish requests.
  
• God gave Solomon his request.  He gave him over and above all that he could ask or think.  V11-13 - God's blessings are innumerable. Oh, how God loves us!  He delights in answering our prayers. 
  
• God promised to lengthen Solomon's days if he kept the commandments of the Lord. 
• Solomon worshiped and sacrificed to the Lord when God answered his prayers and blessed him.  May I be careful to do the same!

“But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (2Co 10:17)“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer 9:24)

How Does Your Garden Grow?

-E.L.

“But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (2Co 10:17)“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer 9:24)

Have a Prosperous Day

While reading in Joshua today, I am reminded that if my meditation is on God's Word day and night and I obey it's commands, then my way will be prosperous and I will have good success.

Joshua 1:8  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

So often, I feel anxious and in a hurry, like I have so many things to do and things to accomplish.  May I not fail to keep God's Word foremost in my thoughts and meditation and allow Him to guide me.  Only then will I have a prosperous and successful day. 








“But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (2Co 10:17)“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer 9:24)

Free To Choose - Lessons that follow our choices

Free to choose

Yes, God has given us a will and the freedom to choose!  Is it wrong to choose?  Certainly not.  “The supreme dignity of human life is that it is made to choose.  The greatest gift that you possess is the gift of will, the fact that there comes to you every day, and every hour, I think I may safely say every moment, something concerning which you have to elect, to decide, to choose.  We are not automatic machines, We are independent, free agents.  I can choose heaven or hell.  It is a tremendous issue, but it is a magnificent possibility.  That is the dignity of human life.”

Lot made a choice:

Ge 13:11 “Then Lot chose him”…  “A moment has come in the life of the man when it is necessary for him to choose.  He must make a choice, and he proceeds to exercise his will upon the basis of personal desire alone. ‘He chose him,’ …his own desire in these things was that which should minister to his own self-life. …he is still seeking gain, and self is the underlying reason.  Perhaps he thought, “I may do these people good, I may be able to help them, I may be able to use the purity of a simple faith, I may be able to do something to bring them near the true and living God.  I am going there to make wealth faster than I can in the old-fashioned way.  It was a choice based upon purely personal and selfish reasoning. …He has forgotten the things permanent, and is attempting to grasp the things perishing. …He went near Sodom in order to make use of it, but …now he is no longer in a tent, but in a house; no longer near Sodom, but in the midst of it; not longer separated from Sodom, but mixed up in its life.  Then we see that Lot sat in the gate of Sodom.  He had become the chief magistrate in the city.  In today’s language, he became the mayor of Sodom.” 

“That appears as though he were getting on wonderfully well.  He is a great success.  If that man lived today, his biography would be sold and given away to young men as an example of how to get on in the world.  …If a man gets on, and gets into position, becomes mayor, president, and thinks that is everything, it is a lie, and the sooner those facing life get rid of such an idea, the better.

What about Lot’s self?  Lot may have had fame, fortune, position, and wealth, but his heart was hot and restless and his soul was vexed from day to day.

 What about Lot’s family?  His sons-in-law laughed at him, and took no heed, and his wife’s heart had become knit to all the grossness of the city; and his two daughters had become utterly corrupted in the city. He lost his loved ones, he lost his children.

 What about Lot’s influence on Sodom?  “There were not ten righteous men in the city.  The man that nearly saved Sodom was not the man who went to live in it, but the man who prayed for Sodom (Abraham) ,wrestled with God for Sodom, and received the divine promise that if ten righteous men should be found therein, the city should be spared, but they could not be found, although Lot had lived there until he became mayor.  It was a disastrous failure”

What about Lot’s wealth?  “He lost it all, all he saved out of Sodom was his life, and he had to be persuaded to save that, for at last angel hands put upon his shoulders hastened him out of the city.  He went in rich and came out a pauper.

Lessons:
“…there is no folly quite equal to the folly of self-centered seeking.”   “…it is the man who is self-seeking and who chooses in life simply upon the basis of his own selfishness, who is going to make the most disastrous failure.

“It is utterly useless to try and make compromises between good and evil.”

“The choice is not wrong, it is man’s prerogative to choose, it is a proof of the majesty of his being.  What are we to do?  Choose upon a right principle.”

 “Man does not possess anything except what God give him.  Did Abram choose?  Oh, yes, before Lot did.  What did he choose?  Not to choose for himself, but to let God choose for him.  That is the true principle of choice.”

 “Our wills are ours, we know not how;

Our wills are ours to make them Thine.”

-poet unknown

 “That is the philosophy of life upon which Abram lived.  He had a will.  What did he do with it?  He willed to do the will of God.”

 “May God help you to choose upon the true principle, and letting Him choose, enthrone Him in the life, make Him absolute Monarch, handing over the reins of government to the King, flinging back the door of every chamber of the being, letting Him master you.  Then will your life be in harmony with His will, the horizon will be set back, and the light breaking upon you will be the light that has no waning, the dawning of the eternal day.  May we be delivered from the folly of Lot, and be brought into the wisdom of Abram.”

The above was taken from the most recent book that I have read The True Estimate of Life by G. Campbell Morgan. 

******************************************************************************************************************


“But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (2Co 10:17)“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer 9:24)

The Oil of the Holy Spirit

"In our lives we need Christ as our light.  But for the light to continue to glow and bless, we need the oil of the Holy spirit.  we have no oil spring within ourselves.  we need "oil for the light", just as Moses was commanded to provide for Israel.  The lamps needed to be fed by the oil.  In our lives we need fresh grace everyday to see the need met for us to be His light in the world.

Truth,, holiness, joy, knowledge, love - these are all beams of the sacred light.  However, we cannot give them forth unless in private we surrender to the Holy Spirit and have His oil within."

"For ye were sometimes darknesss, but now are ye light in the Lord; Walk as children of light" Eph. 5:8




“But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” (2Co 10:17)“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer 9:24)







{ Last Page } { Page 1 of 5 } { Next Page }