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Security of the Saint 2008-02-29 05:55:09 "Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord." Today people are altogether ignoring the fact that God has anything to do with human relationships. If we get out of any setting of natural life which God has decreed we shall not be blessed. Take the commandment to "honour thy father and mother", and apply it spiritually. I believe that many a life is hindered from entering into sanctification through not being properly related in disposition to father and mother. It is one of the most practical tests. Am I allowing inordinate affection in any relationship? or envy, or jealousy? If so I am certainly not finding b Read more:Saint
Choices 2008-03-13 04:43:45 If I hold on to choices of any kind,Just because they are my choice;if I give any room to my private likesand dislikes,then I know nothing of Calvary love.-From If by Amy Carmichael
What shall it profit . . . 2008-03-12 15:54:51 In our Lord's mind any created thing which fails in making anything of its purpose is contemptible. Jesus' attitude to Roman and Grecian civilization was one of superb contempt. Our attitude to Greece and Rome is one of un-bonneted reverence, with not so much as the cast of an eye for Jesus Christ. Our Lord followed life from His Father's standpoint, today we are caught up in the shows of things. Take the Bible attitude to men on the whole, civilizations are despatched at a minute's notice, armies come together and annihilate one another and God seems to pay no attention. His attitude is one which makes us blaspheme and say that He does not care an atom for human beings. Jesus Christ says He does, He says He is a Father, and that He, Jesus, is exactly like His Father. Th Read more:shall
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Financing God's work - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-15 11:31:25 I found the following excerpt from Though the Mountains Shake by Amy Carmichael
to be very insightful in regards to financing work done for the Lord. There are four ways of financing work. 1. To use one's earnings or possessions. This is scriptural (Eph. 4:28) and often possible. 2. To ask others. This is Scriptural (Ex. 35:5; 2 Cor. 8:11 and context) and often possible. 3. To ask no one but the Father. This is Scriptural (The Gospels; I John 5:14-15) and always possible, if He be "the Ground of our beseeching." 4. To profess to follow the third way Read more:Financing
Jesus will not water down His teaching - Oswald Chambers 2008-03-17 11:32:43 From The Highest Good by Oswald Chambers
: If we would have the blunt courage of ordinary human beings and face the teachings of Jesus
, we would have to come to one of two conclusions - either the conclusion His contemporaries came to, that He was devil-possessed, or else to the conclusion the disciples came to, that He is God Incarnate. Jesus Christ will not water
down His teaching to suit our weakness in any shape or form; He will not allow us to cringe in the tiniest degree. Whenever there is a trace of cringing or whining or wanting something different from what He wants, it is the stern front of the Son of God uncloaking sin every time we look at Him; but if we come as paupers, what happens? Exactly the opposite. He will lift us up and wash us whiter than snow, a
The Real Life - Oswald Chambers 2008-03-16 14:46:45 A quote from The Highest Good by Oswald Chambers
: There never was anyone who did not have one moment when all the machinery tumbled away and he saw the meaning of his life. God pays not the remotest attention to our civilized cultures and our attitude to things, because that is not what we are here for. We are here for one thing - to glorify God. That is where we join issue with the Lord Jesus Christ today, and we look at every other thing as life - "What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" Our Lord came for one purpose only, to reveal God, and to get men to be spiritually real.
Forgiveness - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-20 08:52:37 I found this in If by Amy Carmichael
:If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannotforget,"as though the God,Who twice a day washes all thesands on all the shores of all theworld,could not wash such memoriesfrom my mind,then I know nothing of Calvary love. Read more:Forgiveness
Christ is risen! - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-19 08:08:34 I found this story in Thou Givest They Gather by Amy Carmichael
:I have been reading an Anglo-Russian woman's story. Her husband, a brave and good doctor, was shot by the Reds. She had to work hard to educate her two children. She suffered much, but she never makes much of that; she tells of the suffering of others. This is one of her stories: On the night of Easter Eve, two Christ
ian women were to be examined by the Reds in the prison. The warders fetched them, and as they walked along the damp, dimly-lighted, endless passages, the younger of the two - quite a young girl - remembered what night it was, and before she could be stopped, she suddenly called out in a glad, fearless voice, "Christ is risen!", and from behind the locked doors of the cells on either side of the dark passage
The Natural Life - Oswald Chambers 2008-03-18 12:22:15 From The Highest Good by Oswald Chambers
: What we have to get hold of in our moral lives is that Jesus Christ demands that we live His holy life out naturally. Despair is always the gateway of faith. "If Thou canst!" "All things are possible to him that believeth." So many of us get depressed about ourselves, but when we get to the point where we are not only sick of ourselves, but sick to death, then we shall understand what the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ means. It will mean that we come to Him without the slightest pretence, without any hypocrisy, and say, 'Lord, if You can make anything of me, do it,' and He will do it. The Lord can never make a saint out of a good man, He can only make a saint out of three classes of people - the godless man, the weak man Read more:Natural
A melting fire 2008-03-22 08:52:49 I found this poem in Though the Mountains Shake by Amy Carmichael:As when the melting
fire burneth,So burn, O Lord, in me;As when a loving father yearneth,So yearn, O Lord, through me,In love to this Thy family.As when the lightning rendeth heaven,So rend the self in me;As when the mountains earthquake-rivenFlow down; so flow through me,In power to this Thy family.-Murray Webb-Peploe
Is Christ cheap? 2008-03-21 09:28:24 I found this quote of Samuel Rutherford in Gold Cord by Amy Carmichael:There are some who would have Christ
cheap. They would have Him without the cross. But the price will not come down.-Samuel Rutherford
I want to know Him - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-26 16:56:20 I want to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, and the Lord says this is impossible without the sword cutting deeply and dividing where our human relationships are concerned. We find that in the most intimate and God-given relationships, whether in family life or where friendship or close association of any kind is found, the Sword of the Lord begins to work, and a deep work is necessary before our relationships are in "life" where God is concerned. If we know one another after the flesh there is "death" spiritually, and so much that is called spiritual and of the Lord is really in the realm of death. The inescapable principle of spiritual life is death and resurrection; things going into death in one realm that they may live i Read more:Carmichael
Christ Asks for All - Elizabeth Prentiss 2008-03-25 16:41:19 A jealous lover art Thou, oh my God,Asking my all from me;Is it too much to give? Can I refuseThis all to Thee?I cannot trust myself, for while I say,All that I have is Thine,There may be hidden in my inmost heartSome thing yet mine.I may be clinging, though I know it not,To some long-cherished joy;I may be clasping, with a childish heart,Some childish toy.I would not have it thus! I would let goOf every outward thing,That I with empty hands, my dearest Lord,To Thee may cling.Thou art enough to satisfy my heart;Long years have taught me this,Take all, but leave Thyself, I cannot askA greater bliss.-From Golden Hours by Elizabeth
Prentiss Read more:Christ
A very restful sureness - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-28 08:31:40 This excerpt is found at the close of the book Though the Mountains Shake by Amy Carmichael
: Since those last words were written much water has flowed under the bridge - red water. Sometimes overwhelmed by the crimes and shames that have broken in mighty billows upon the tortured lands, the eye has been caught by a small paragraph, or the ear by a brief sentence, and instantly there has swept into view, not only peoples but the whole creation that groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now (has anyone ever measured the sufferings of animals in war?), till the cry of the ages has once more ascended: Lord, how long wilt Thou look upon this? O ever-blazing sun!O lightening of the eternal Sire!Can ye behold this doneAnd tamely hide your al
The Cross - Amy Carmichael 2008-03-27 08:06:54 From If by Amy Carmichael
:If I sympathize weakly with weakness,and say to one who is turning backfrom the cross, "Pity thyself";if I refuse such a one the sympathythat bracesand the brave and heartening wordof comradeship,then I know nothing of Calvary love. Read more:Cross
Unwanted children? -Amy Carmichael 2008-03-30 16:24:02 Amy Carmichael
referring to children who were desperately sought after by temple women: "These are unwanted children I suppose?" even now, after all we have tried to tell clearly, many a visitor asks. Perhaps this story will help to answer that question. And perhaps, if the reader pauses long enough to think who wanted the children most, something of the meaning of things will break upon the heart. There have been times when we have looked at the crowds of Christians who seem to care so little that young children are defiled that they will not even take the trouble to listen carefully to what can be told of them, or to gather to pray for them; and we have been discouraged. And then, adapting ancient words a little, we have said, "I will not make mention Read more:Unwanted
Indignation - Oswald Chambers 2008-03-29 15:22:06 From The Highest Good by Oswald Chambers
: Ask yourself, then, what is it that awakens indignation in your heart? Is it the same kind of thing that awakened indignation in Jesus Christ? The thing that awakens indignation in us is the thing that upsets our present state of comfort and society. The thing that made Jesus Christ blaze was pride that defied God and prevented Him from having His right with human hearts. Sin is the independence of human nature which God created turning against God. Holiness is this same independence turning against sin. Sin is not doing wrong things, it is wrong being. Sins are wrong acts: sin is an independence that will not bow its neck to God, that defies God and all He presents, that will not go to the excellency of a broken heart. It is
Self crossing the threshold - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-02 16:39:06 If the moment I am conscious of the shadow of selfcrossing my threshold,I do not shut the door,and in the power of HimWho works in us to will and to do,keep that door shut,then I know nothing of Calvary love.-From If by Amy Carmichael
IfBy Amy Carmichael / Christian Literature CrusadeA little book about Calvary love in common life. Based on 1st Corinthians 13.
Our will or God's will? -Oswald Chambers 2008-04-01 14:54:19 From The Highest Good by Oswald Chambers
: The spirit of 'I do not wish to be annoyed' is frequently the inspiration of the administration of justice in private cases. I works into our intercession also: I want that bad person saved - because he is of so much value in the sight of God? No, because he is an annoyance to me, I cannot live my life properly with him. That spirit cannot live anywhere near Jesus Christ, because Jesus had only one point of view - His Father's will.
Nothing else counts - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-06 08:43:01 From Windows by Amy Carmichael
:"Let no one be deceived by the implications of a missionary map, nothing is more deceptive except it be missionary statistics. Neither can show the spiritual, and nothing else counts."Nothing
else counts.Sometimes something I read jumps off the page at me, and this was one of those times. I found the above quote in a footnote in Windows and have been thinking about it ever since. What really matters to God? God keeps much different statistics than we do. Let's focus on what really counts in the sight of God.
He goes on loving us - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-05 19:25:45 From Thou Givest They Gather by Amy Carmichael
: Often we wonder how the Lord can possibly go on loving us. Often we are tempted to think that though He may love others, we are different. Do you know what it is to feel so? We are not the first to feel like that. In George Herbert's poem Assurance he writes about it; and in another poem, Gratefulness, he says,"But Thou didst reckon, when at firstThy word our hearts and minds did crave,What it would come to at the worstTo save.Perpetual knockings at Thy door,Tears sullying Thy transparent rooms." Those words were written about 300 years ago. There is unshakeable comfort to be found in remembering that our Lord Jesus knew us and all we would be and do before He called us. Oh, rest your hearts, you who a
At rest under the Unexplained - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-08 16:56:54 From If by Amy Carmichael
:If I cannot be at rest under the Unexplained
,forgetting the word, "And blessedis he whosoever shall not beoffended in Me";or if I can allow the least shadow ofa misunderstanding,then I know nothing of Calvary love. So many times I want to know, to have things explained and laid out before me - yet God often waits to explain His reasons. IfBy Amy Carmichael / Christian Literature CrusadeA little book about Calvary love in common life. Based on 1st Corinthians 13.
Counsel for the tempted - Elizabeth Prentiss 2008-04-09 10:04:11 Elizabeth Prentiss wrote this letter to encourage a friend over a century ago. May it be an encouragement to you today!Excerpted from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss To a young Friend, New York, Jan. 8, 1873.I feel very sorry for you that you are under temptation. I have been led, for some time, to pray specially for the tempted, for I have learned to pity them as greater sufferers than those afflicted in any other way. For, in proportion to our love to Christ, will be the agony of terror lest we should sin and fall, and so grieve and weary Him. "One sinful wish could make a hell of heaven"; strong language, but not too strong, to my mind. I can only say, suffer, but do not yield. Sometimes I think that silent, submissive patience is better than struggle. It is sweet to be in th Read more:Counsel
, Elizabeth
Are there any women? -Amy Carmichael 2008-04-13 13:09:01 An excerpt from Gold Cord by Amy Carmichael
describing her search for assistance during the early years of her ministry with children:...a number of children were sent to us, and we were soon so greatly requiring help that I wrote a round-robin to the pastors, asking if they had any women wholly devoted to our Lord and separate in spirit from the world who were likely to be free for such work. "Not only have we no women, but we do not know even one woman of the kind you want," was, in effect, the answer of all.Yes, today we still need women who are wholly devoted to our Lord and separate in spirit from the world. There are few, very few. Let us free ourselves from every entanglement that would hinder us from doing the Lord's work.
Let me not shrink from suffering - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-22 12:51:01 O Prince of Glory, who dost bringThy sons to glory through Thy Cross,Let me not shrink
from suffering,Reproach, or loss.The dust of words would smother me;Be all to me anathemaThat turns me from Gethsemane,And Golgotha.If Thy dear Home be fuller, Lord,For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardThat guerdon were.And by the borders of my dayThe river of Thy pleasure flows,The flowers that blossom by the way,Who loves Thee knows.-From Windows by Amy Carmichael
Till Thou has won Thy crown - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-24 09:08:12 A quote from Windows by Amy Carmichael
:Lord Jesus Christ, our Captain,we hail Thee Conqueror;Ask what Thou wilt, we'll follow,we are Thy men of war,We'll burn our boats behind us,we'll fling our ladders down,No battle-wound shall bind us,till Thou hast won Thy crown.O Lord, our Leader,make us a faithful bandTill Hindustan from north to southis Thine, Lord, is Thine-Immanuel's land.
Take up your bed and walk! -F. B. Meyer 2008-04-23 13:56:09 I know very well how hopeless it seems ever to conquer where you have so often failed. Your own energy and natural force can never meet the case; but this is the province of the Saviour. The whole need not the physician, but they that are sick; and He comes to make the sick whole. Believe that in Him is the complement of your need; that He does more than heal, because He can make what used to be your weakness, your strength; and what had been your perpetual failure the most noticeable grace in your character. It seems impossible, but to God all things are possible."The most impossible of allIs that from sin I e'er should cease;Yet shall it be - I know it shall!Jesus, look to thy faithfulness!Since nothing is too hard for Thee,All things are possible to me." &n Read more:Meyer
Friendship - Amy Carmichael 2008-04-25 07:46:19 From If by Amy Carmichael
:If I do not give a friend "the benefit of the doubt,"but put the worst constructioninstead of the best on what is said or done,then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I take offense easily;if I am content to continue in a cool unfriendliness,though friendship be possible,then I know nothing of Calvary love.IfBy Amy Carmichael / Christian Literature CrusadeA little book about Calvary love in common life. Based on 1st Corinthians 13. Read more:Friendship
The Cross vs. our own way - Oswald Chambers 2008-05-04 10:01:40 The evidence that I have accepted the Cross
of Christ as the revelation of Redemption is that the regenerating life of God is manifested in my mortal flesh. Immediately I accept the Cross of Christ as the revelation of Redemption I am not, I must not be, the same man, I must be another man, and I must take up my cross from my Lord. The cross is the gift of Jesus to His disciples and it can only bear one aspect: 'I am not my own.' The whole attitude of the life is that I have given up my right to myself. I live like a crucified man. Unless that crisis is reached it is perilously possible for my religious life to end as a sentimental fiasco. "I don't mind being saved from hell and receiving the Holy Spirit, but it is too much to expect me to give up my right to myself to Read more:Chambers
Broken plans, broken health - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-05 13:16:32 He took the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks, and brake them - that is the story of the medical work throughout the first seven years. We have the same words again and again in the Gospels: He took and blessed, and brake, and gave. He was known to them in the breaking of bread. Broken plans
, broken health - but He brake and gave. There is a fellowship in brokenness: "My body which is broken."-From Windows by Amy Carmichael
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