Thursday, June 27, 2019

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Sad to say, not all Christians can say at all times that “we preach not ourselves,” for some proclaim themselves loudly and clearly. Listen to some who speak of their faithfulness in church attendance, of their giving of their money to the Lord’s work, or even of their faithfulness in witnessing. Hear some preachers speak of their wide sphere of usefulness, of the places where they have spoken, or even of their success in winning souls. Or hear some among God’s people talk of how spiritual they are. How dishonoring to our Lord is such heralding of self, for “it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful,” and “when ye shall have done all these things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.” If any service has been done for our Lord’s glory, it is because of His enabling, “for who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” Instead of proclaiming ourselves and our works, our continual attitude ought to be, “I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes,” for “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies … which Thou hast showed unto Thy servant.”
Dust and ashes alone I am,
Nothing to commend me to God;
His grace alone has sought me out,
With mercy instead of His rod.
2 Corinthians 4:5 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:2 ~ Luke 17:10 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:7 ~ Job 42:6 ~ Genesis 32:10
             
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Let us who seek to walk with the Lord never forget the truth expressed in the above verse. The right way to live is not by our own planning and scheming, but by simple faith in Him who says, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Whatever adverse circumstances may envelop us, we can rest assured that “He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold,” for “the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.” We can trust Him to lead and guide us, for “He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” “Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. … My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.” “The Lord’s portion is His people.” “I cried unto Thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living,” for “Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep Thy words.”
The Lord is the lot of my cup;
He is my portion forever,
If the sun shines bright or darkens,
It can’t my soul from Him sever.
Job 23:14 ~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~ Job 23:10 ~ Psalm 16:5‑6 ~ Psalm 23:3 ~ Psalm 73:24 ~ Psalm 73:26 ~ Deuteronomy 32:9 ~ Psalm 142:5 ~ Psalm 119:57
             
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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While the Scriptures teach that there is a place for united or public prayer, they also teach, both by precept and example, that every believer ought to be engaged often in private and personal prayer. There come needs and burdens in all our lives that we do not have freedom to discuss publicly, even for help in prayer. So “enter into thy closet, and … shut the door.” We read of our Lord that “when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, He was there alone.” How encouraging it is to us to know that “the prayer of the upright is His delight” and that “He heareth the prayer of the righteous.” So let us be pointed in our praying, telling Him our every need and burden, for He has told us to “pour out your heart before Him,” and “in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” And let us do this persistently, for we “ought always to pray, and not to faint.” Therefore “pray without ceasing,” and “continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving,” knowing that “thy Father, which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”
Pray to thy Father in secret,
For He doth delight in thy prayer;
Come to the throne of His mercy,
For He always will meet you there.
Matthew 6:6 ~ Matthew 14:23 ~ Proverbs 15:8 ~ Proverbs 15:29 ~ Psalm 62:8 ~ Philippians 4:6 ~ Luke 18:1 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 ~ Colossians 4:2
             
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Monday, June 24, 2019

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The “therefore” in the above verse refers to the promise of our Lord’s coming for us in the preceding verses: “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. … Therefore … be ye steadfast, unmovable.” The present time is a time of labor and sowing; the time of reaping will be at His coming. “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” Let us therefore “be … steadfast [and] unmovable,” settled and not stirred away from our course, remembering to “judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God,” never forgetting “that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
Now is the time to serve our Lord,
Seeking to bring honor to Him;
Bearing witness to His great mercy
Makes the things of the earth grow dim.
1 Corinthians 15:58 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:51‑52 ~ Revelation 22:12 ~ Revelation 3:11 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:5 ~ Colossians 3:24
             
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Sunday, June 23, 2019

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Who among God’s redeemed children can even faintly comprehend what it will be like when we are in glory with our blessed Lord, “when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be admired in all them that believe”? What will it mean when “there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away”? What will it be when we sing that “new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth”? No, we cannot even begin to comprehend what it will be, but by faith we “reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” at His coming. “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”
We shall see Him in His glory,
And like Him we then shall be,
To sing and praise Him forever,
For His grace that made us free.
John 17:22 ~ 2 Thessalonians 1:10 ~ Revelation 21:4 ~ Revelation 5:9‑10 ~ Romans 8:18 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:16‑17
             
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Saturday, June 22, 2019

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Let not the Christian who has unjudged and unconfessed sin in his life suppose that God will answer his prayers. “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.” “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any; that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” And, “likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. … Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.” “The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.” “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.”
A heart in fellowship with God
And no unjudged sin between
May come to Him in confidence
And upon His promise lean.
Psalm 66:18 ~ Proverbs 28:9 ~ Isaiah 59:1‑2 ~ Mark 11:25 ~ 1 Peter 3:1 ~ 1 Peter 3:7 ~ 1 Peter 3:12 ~ James 4:3 ~ 1 John 3:22
             
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Friday, June 21, 2019

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To “abide” is to “continue,” to “remain.” Obviously, it does not refer to our salvation, for the true believer will always “continue” to be saved; he will “remain” saved forever. Our Lord said, “I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My hand.” To “abide,” then, has reference to our fellowship with the Lord, and “the fruit of the Spirit … love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance” is borne only as we “stay” in fellowship with Him. “The fruits of righteousness … are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God,” and our Lord said, “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit,” and “if ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in His love,” and “if ye continue [abide] in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river … neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
“Abide in Me,” our Savior said,
And fruit for God you will bear;
Your life will be a light for Him;
The gospel message you’ll share.
John 15:5 ~ John 10:28 ~ Galatians 5:22‑23 ~ Philippians 1:11 ~ John 15:8 ~ John 15:10 ~ John 8:31‑32 ~ Jeremiah 17:7‑8
             
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Thursday, June 20, 2019

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Just before our Lord went back to heaven, He promised His own that “ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.” This promise was fulfilled when the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost and baptized all believers into one body. Since that time, whenever a person is born again by faith in Christ as Savior, that person then becomes a partaker of that “one baptism,” so that “by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body.” “As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ,” and every true Christian has been made partaker of the Spirit’s baptism, “for we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.” Thus we have great responsibility toward every other member of His body, for we are “every one members one of another,” and “none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.” Therefore let us be “distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality,” and let us “rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.” And “let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another,” “having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.”
I need to consider others
Who are loved by the Lord as I,
Who have needs and burdens daily,
And whose hearts hold many a sigh.
1 Corinthians 12:13 ~ Acts 1:5 ~ Ephesians 4:5 ~ Galatians 3:27 ~ Ephesians 5:30 ~ Romans 12:5 ~ Romans 14:7 ~ Romans 12:13 ~ Romans 12:15 ~ Romans 14:19 ~ Philippians 2:2
             
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

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How appropriate is this “prayer of Moses the man of God,” for the Lord wants His redeemed people to show forth His beauty to those whose lives touch ours. “Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” “God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. … 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. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” As we look at Him and to Him in the Word of God, “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
May my dear Lord be seen in me
As I live here among men;
May His image be not effaced
By my sin and self within.
Psalm 90:17 ~ 1 Peter 2:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:6‑7 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:10‑11 ~ 2 Corinthians 3:18
             
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

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Let nothing, dear Christian, come between your heart and the hope of the Lord’s imminent coming. Remember His promise that “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Pay no attention to those who say that certain prophetic events must take place before the Lord can come for His saints. We look not for events, but for Him. “Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” And heed not those who say that the tribulation, or a part of it, must first come. In speaking of that awful coming time of wrath, God’s Word assures us that “God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.” And refuse the legalistic teaching which says that all believers will not be raptured, but only those who have attained to superior spirituality or who are intently looking for Him, for God’s Word assures us that “we shall all be changed” at His coming. So, “now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.”
It may be today He shall come
To take us home to glory
To abide with Him forever,
To sing redemption’s story.
Titus 2:13 ~ John 14:2‑3 ~ Philippians 3:20 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:51 ~ 1 John 2:28
             
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