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Wilt thou be made whole? - F. B. Meyer 2008-05-06 11:48:34 Wilt thou, young soul, be made whole? You have been double-minded: will you have the single eye? You have been double-hearted: will you have the single purpose? You have been infirm in purpose, cowardly in confession, paralysed in action: do you choose at whatever cost to be made whole, as those angels that excel in strength, and do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word? Are you willing to be made whole - though it should involve you in obloquy and scorn; though it mean the loss of companionships that have been as the apple of your eye, and the forsaking of those scenes which are familiar as the porch, where this man had sheltered for thirty-eight years? Tell the Saviour so! Discover the one point in your character in which this moral paralysis has wor Read more:Meyer
Father, we come to Thee - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-08 08:10:03 Father, we come to Thee for bread,For all who hungry be;That little children may be fed,The sick and sorrowing comforted,We come, O God, to Thee.We thank Thee for the loving wordThat bids us cast our care;O Lord of lily and of bird,We come to Thee, our prayer is heard,And Thou dost answer prayer.-From Windows by Amy Carmichael Read more:Father
Behold, the world is gone after Him - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-07 13:34:51 We were talking over this together when the words Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body unexpectedly opened to us, as familiar words so often open and discover treasure. And we saw that just as our Lord's words about the corn of wheat show once for all the law of life ("The law of the Cross is laid upon all life"), and as St. Paul's "That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection" shows how we may be strong to obey that law, so this teaching on bearing about the Dying of our Lord Jesus shows the working of the law in the common details of common days. For the Dying of our Lord was the triumph of Life in the hour when the Powers of death appeared to triumph; and Read more:Carmichael
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From "If" by Amy Carmichael 2008-05-09 09:17:43 If I feel injured when another laysto my charge things that I know not,forgetting that my Sinless Saviourtrod this path to the end,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.
Waste? by Amy Carmichael 2008-05-11 09:02:00 God has some servants so trustful that He knows they will be content with any use He makes of whatever they give to Him. It is lawful for Him to do as He will with His own, that is their attitude, and it simplifies everything. But sometimes we have wondered whether one who has sent a gift to save a child, was disappointed when that little one passed on. We can understand the temptation, for we have felt it too. Perhaps much prayer and work lay behind the salvation of that child, and a costly journey and months of nursery care. Within a few months, it may be, the little one was gone. To what purpose is this waste? We would not say so, but sometimes we have almost thought so. Something so much more useful than this, for which we have not Read more:Carmichael
Jesus can save to the uttermost - Oswald Chambers 2008-05-12 14:54:38 The great challenge in personal work is - What relationship have I to Jesus
Christ? It is not simply that we realize the power of Jesus to save, but that we recognize the possibilities for evil in our own heart, discerned in us by the Holy Spirit, and know that Jesus can save unto the uttermost. Let a man be a murderer, or an evildoer, or any of the things Jesus said men could b Read more:Chambers
Christian example - Elizabeth Prentiss 2008-05-14 12:32:39 An excerpt from a letter by Elizabeth
Prentiss: But perhaps I may put one beyond it - Christian
example. I ought to be so saintly, so consecrated, that you could not be with me and not catch the very spirit of heaven; never get a letter from me that did not quicken your steps in the divine life. But while I believe the principle of love to Christ is entrenched in the depths of my soul, the e
Lord Jesus, Thou art here with me - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-13 16:09:54 Lord Jesus
, Thou art here with me,I do not need to cry to TheeTo come with me, my loving Lord,For Thou art with me in the ward.And though I may not see Thy Face,Yet as I go from place to place,There is a hush upon my day,That would not be, wert Thou away.When in the still white room I stand,Thy viewless hand will guide my hand.Dear Lord, what joy, what peace to beAbout Thy healing work with Read more:Carmichael
When I had ceased from my struggles - F. B. Meyer 2008-05-15 07:43:41 There is nothing else for you but to come to this. As long as you wrestle with God, you miss His richest blessings. Your hands are so occupied with your grasping and wrenching, that they are not open enough to receive His choice bestowments of life and peace. Jacob wrestled with God the whole night, and was no further advanced. It was when he could wrestle no more, because the s Read more:Meyer
The Carpenter made common things - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-20 15:20:07 Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual:Very dear the Cross of shameWhere He bore the sinner's blame,And the tomb wherein the Saviour layUntil the Third Day came,But He bore the self-same load,And He went the same high road,When the Carpenter
of NazarethMade common things
for God.-From Windows by Amy Carmichael
To those who are seeking rest - F. B. Meyer 2008-05-19 15:40:15 To those who are seeking rest. - We often seek rest in the wrong way. We think we must go down lower into humiliation, or climb up into a higher experience. We go backward and forward like birds that have got imprisoned in a room, and persist in flying to and fro, refusing to let themselves be caught by the hand which longs to capture them only to fling them out through the wind Read more:Meyer
Books I've been reading - Part 1 2008-05-22 05:00:00 It's time to post about some books I've finished reading recently! Although some of these are out of print, they are definitely worth finding if you can!Windows by Amy Carmichael First published in 1937. Not currently in print. The story of the Lord's dealings with the Dohnavur Fellowship during the years 1929-1936. Full of pictures and personal anecdotes of Dohnavur life. Throughout the Read more:Books
Bid me come! - F. B. Meyer 2008-05-21 06:02:06 Probably, Christ oftenest comes through the night and storm, when the wind is contrary and the strength giving out, when the sky is black with the hurrying clouds, and the wind churns the water into a yeasty foam; when the hopes of former years have been disappointed, and the light that shone so brightly has faded; when ill-health oppresses, when heart and flesh fail, when our d Read more:Meyer
Books I've been reading - Part 2 2008-05-23 05:00:00 Here are some more recent reads that I hope will be encouraging to you!The Highest Good by Oswald ChambersOriginally published in the 1930's by his wife, this book is about achieving the highest goal for our lives. It's packed with rich insights. I have posted several excerpts from this book on this blog. It is still available in a paperback edition here. Created to be his help meet by Debi P Read more:Books
Sacrifices - Homely or Extraordinary - Oswald Chambers 2008-05-25 05:00:00 These are extraordinary sacrifices, they cut clean across everything we believe naturally. We must have the marks in our hands and feet that are exactly like Our Lord. There must be the crucified love of grasp for myself; the crucified love of wandering in my own ways; the crucified love of the world; the wounded pride of intellect. There is no bigger word and no word made more Read more:Extraordinary
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A Map for the Mind - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-24 05:00:00 Here is a verbal sketch of Dohnavur by Amy Carmichael
: This chapter is written for one who likes to make a map for the mind as he reads. It will be of no interest to any other, and may be omitted without loss to the story as a whole. If you approach Dohnavur from the South, you find yourself in a village street, and, turning in at the gate that opens off the str
O Love, that lavished all on me - Amy Carmichael 2008-05-27 17:00:00 O deeps unfathomed as the sea,O heights that reach beyond the high,O Love, that lavished all on me,I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.O Love, that is not here or there,But like Thine own eternityIs here, is there, is everywhere,I yield, I love, I worship Thee.-From Windows by Amy Carmichael
Elizabeth Prentiss' view of death 2008-05-26 17:00:00 And here it may not be amiss to say a word as to her state of mind respecting death
. After her release her husband thus described it to a friend:Her feeling about dying seemed to me to be almost unique. In all my pastoral experience, at least, I do not recall another case quite like it. Her faith in a better world, that is, a heavenly, was quite as strong as her faith in God and in Christ; s Read more:Elizabeth
The love of God - Oswald Chambers 2008-05-28 17:00:00 The love of God rakes the very bottom of hell, and from the depths of sin and suffering brings sons and daughters to God. To introduce the idea of merit into belief, i.e. that I have done something by believing, is to annul my belief and make it blasphemous. Belief is the abandonment of all claim to desert; that is why it is so difficult to believe in Jesus. It requires the renu Read more:Chambers
The Love of the Father - Elizabeth Prentiss 2008-05-29 17:00:00 A benevolent man found a half-starved, homeless, blind beggar-boy in the streets of a great city. He took him, just as he was, to his own house, adopted him as his own son, and began to educate him. But the boy learned very slowly, and his face was often sad. His father asked him why he did not fix his mind more upon his lessons, and why he was not cheerful and happy, lik Read more:Father
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Books I read this week 2008-05-31 17:00:00 Through Gates of SplendorBy Elisabeth Elliot I finished reading Through Gates of Splendor yesterday. I hadn't read it for several years. What impressed me most this time was the men's lack of glory seeking - not many people knew about their Auca mission before they died. They were confident that what they were doing was God's will and did not need the widespread approval of man to validate th Read more:Books
Devotion and consecration - F. B. Meyer 2008-05-30 17:00:00 There was no pause in His life of devotion to His Father's will. Always the devoted Servant, ever the obedient Son, instant in season, and out of season, to do the work with which the Father has entrusted Him. With steadfast face He made for His Cross; with unswerving purpose He accomplished our redemption. We might well wish for this. Days in which the high purpose of our life Read more:Devotion
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Temptation - F. B. Meyer 2008-06-01 17:00:00 Do you not know this? All temptation begins with the first flitting thought, which shows itself like the air of a fugue - merely a suggestion, a fancy, a desire. It seems innocent enough. You are disposed to admit it. Why shouldn't you? It is surely needless to make too much ado about what seems so innocent, or, at least, so trifling. And that thought may lie in your heart, like Read more:Meyer
Tornado pictures and video 2008-06-03 17:00:00 Visit my personal blog to see pictures and video
from the tornados that ripped through my town last Thursday night. Read more:Tornado
And the Lord wrought a great victory - Amy Carmichael 2008-06-06 17:00:00 Once again I think of some whose heart will go out in longing to be in the thick of the fray again, at any cost. You have fought until your hand was weary and clave unto the sword, and the Lord wrought a great victory that day. Now something else is asked of you. Clamorous ills have come up like the Philistines of the old story who swarmed over the piece of ground full of lentils, and perhaps, un Read more:Carmichael
New Blogrings 2008-06-08 17:00:00 I actually created these blogrings a while ago, but haven't given them much attention until now. Here they are:A Gentle and Quiet SpiritLadies who live their lives according to I Peter 3:4 "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." I love books by Elizabeth PrentissThis is
Not Joy, but Christ - F. B. Meyer - part 1 2008-06-07 17:00:00 From Saved and Kept by F. B. Meyer
I am constantly meeting people who complain that the joy experienced by them in their consecration to God has faded away after the first few days, like light fades off a landscape; and they complain bitterly, as if they had receded from the position which they had taken up, and, in seeking their lost joy, they become involved in deeper darkness Read more:Christ
No Graven Image by Elisabeth Elliot - book review 2008-06-09 17:00:00 No Graven Image
by ElisabethElliot
is a book I have read twice and will probably read again. It is the fictional story of a young single woman missionary who is given the enormous task of starting a work among the Quichuas of the high Andes. As she begins her life in a small village high in the mountains, interacts with other missionaries, and attends missionary meeti Read more:review
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Fear not - Amy Carmichael 2008-06-10 17:00:00 The ways of our Father are gentle. He sends a gracious rain upon His inheritance to refresh it when it is weary. And often the rain is what in this south land we call the leaning rain, because it leans so softly against the hills to fall in small, light drops, almost dewy in smallness. Small questions fall on us in a light refreshing shower. We can answer them easily, and, in an Read more:Carmichael
Peace of conscience - Elizabeth Prentiss 2008-06-11 17:00:00 I think there is such a thing as peace of conscience
even in this life. I do not mean careless peace, or heedless peace; I mean calm consciousness of an understanding, so to speak, between the soul and its Lord. A wife, for instance, may say and do things to her husband that show she is human; yet, at the same time, the two may live together loyally, and be happy. And unl Read more:Peace
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