Saturday, September 28, 2019

On What Do We Depend?



So many offer strong debate on things they've thought or heard
Without a thorough understanding of God's Holy Word
They offer their opinions on the things they think are right
But rarely stop to ask the Author for His Living Light

The Light that is His Spirit that will lead us to the Truth
That He has always offered to His people from their youth
But few have sought to ask Him for as listening instead
To someone else is easier than being Spirit lead

But many are the reasons we should focus on God's Word
And not believe a single thing from others we have heard
Until we have the evidence that what they say is true
By thorough Bible study with God's Spirit we've been through

For if we take for instance in the scripture where Christ said
One day He'll come in glory to raise up His chosen dead
How can He have told Peter He would build His church on him
If he like all the others still awaits Christ's call for them

And how could faulty Peter who knew not the will of God
Whom Jesus told in pity he must watch the way he trod
Be seen as our perfection we must emulate in life
When he with all the others ran to get away from strife

Oh yes it's true that Peter for his sin Christ did atone
When there before the magistrate he cursed and left alone
The Master his Messiah when He needed him the most
For fear he would be judged as well and brought before the host

Of those who knew not Jesus Who had come to be the Lamb
Who was indeed fulfillment of the scripture's great I AM
Because they had not studied in the scriptures on their own
The evidence that God had clearly shared to make Him known

So friend do not be hasty to believe the things you hear
Don't hesitate to search God's Word to make His meaning clear
But while He may be found of you please seek His will in prayer
And know without uncertainty He's sure to meet you there

And show you as you come to Him and lay your burden down
Abandoning what you believe that's biblically unsound
The Truth that's oh so vital as we end probation's day
That will with perfect surety direct you in His Way

Matthew 16:13-23; 7:21-29

 (Google image, God gives light in a dismal place)

On What Do We Depend?
Lee Forbes

Let's pray-

   Father, it's sad that so many offer their strong debate over Your Word without ever trying to understand Your Living Light found in it.
   They find it easier to just listen to someone speak about it, than to seek the evidence that what they read in Your Word is true, by reading and studying it for themselves.
   May we believe without hesitation, the meaning You make clear, that You're sure to meet us in our search for truth. Help us lay our burdens down, abandoning them for the truth we find in the provision for our sins on the Cross of Calvary, by Your Son, Jesus.
   Draw us ever nearer to Your Heart, as we study Your Word, and as we learn to obey it. We ask this in Christ's name. Amen

91 - 95 of 100 one-line Scriptures for those of you who want to learn some more this week-  

91. Ps. 25:5 "Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day."
92. Heb. 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
93. Prov. 15:23 "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!" 
94. Prov. 9:9 "Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."
95. Ps. 139:23 "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts."


Today's quotes-

~ Octavius Winslow (1808-1878)- "Bring your perplexities to God, and He will guide them. Bring your needs to God, and He will supply them. Bring your mountains to God, and He will level them. Bring your sins to God, and He will forgive them. Bring your sorrows, trials, and temptations to God, and He will sustain you under, and will bring you through them, to the praise and glory of His great name, as the "God of all grace."

-By Octavius Winslow, who was a prominent evangelical preacher in England and America. Taken from the September 2018 issue of Herald of His Coming. Used by permission.
“Do Not Quench the Spirit” 
Do not quench the Spirit.  Thess. 5:19
~ Oswald Chambers- The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze— so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it.  (From My Utmost for His Highest Updated Edition)
Words of wisdom-

~ There are no delights or pleasures outside of God that can satisfy the cry of our hearts.

~ If we're healthy in our spirits, many of the things we look for on the outside will be taken care of.


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 Mrs. Frannie Erb- "Humility is not an attitude, but a stern reality born out of deep, crushing, crucifying experiences that leave the soul without a single trace of bitterness, retaliation, or rebellion."

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