Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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More Advice

“Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Psalm 119:11).

Here is some further advice from the same older brother we mentioned on May 13:

Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest your Bible with much fervent prayer. Do not be discouraged if you do not seem to get much at the time. You will get sufficient for your need, and you will always find you have sufficient to give to others if you have the heart to do it. “There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth” (Proverbs 11:24). So the more you give, the more you will get to give, and the greater will be your joy in giving.

Pray a lot! All men and women of God are men and women of prayer. They live in the Spirit of prayer, and find their delight in stealing away when occasion offers to talk with God. Prayer is the expression of the Christian’s dependence on God. It is human weakness clinging to Almighty strength, linked up with eternal and tender love. Lean hard on Him.

 

             
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

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Private Prayer

Treat God as your Father. Exercise unbounded confidence in Him. Don’t think anything too trivial or beneath His notice. “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

Don’t neglect your private prayer. The moment you find yourself becoming lax in that, you may be sure there is something wrong. Pull yourself up at once and examine yourself, and see that the hindrance is removed, or a fall will be the result. Don’t live before others, but live before God.

Look for answers to prayer, and turn back and give thanks. Don’t forget to be grateful. Let these things become a constant habit of soul with you, and your happiness is assured. “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7). “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication” (Ephesians 6:18).

 

             
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Monday, May 19, 2014

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Dear Young Christian:

Here are some scriptures that should be the response of our hearts in light of yesterday’s meditation:

“Love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might” (Deuteronomy 6:5).

Love the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments” (Deuteronomy 30:16).

“I love the Lord” (Psalm 116:1).

In Christianity we have been given the ability and capacity to love the Lord. The more we are occupied with His love, the more we will love Him. We won’t be able to help ourselves. Don’t be discouraged with your lack of love or dullness of affection for Him. Rather be occupied with His unchanging, divine love for you, and you will unconsciously love Him more without even realizing it.

Start the week with a fresh sense of His love. And remember, “We love Him, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

Your Christian Friend,

Jim Hyland

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

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What Love!

“I have loved you, saith the Lord” (Malachi 1:2).

“Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).

“Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us” (Ephesians 5:2).

What love! Will we ever get to the bottom of it? No, it is “the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19).

As we meditate on His wonderful love today, it will open up our hearts to love Him more in return. It will also cause us to praise and thank Him more, and to echo the words of the Apostle John, when he wrote, “Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Revelation 5:5-6).

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ” (Romans 8:5). No one…nothing! Let His love fill your heart and put a song on your lips today.

 

             
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

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The Power of Love

“The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost” (Romans 5:5).

Here is a story of how the love of Christ can change lives:

Japanese Commander Mitsuo Fuchida led the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He hated the Americans.

Jake DeShazer, from Salem Oregon, hated the Japanese, and was chosen to be part of the Doolittle Raid, a reprisal attack on Japan on April 18, 1942. His plane went down, he was captured, and spent 40 months as a prisoner of war. Most of that time was in solitary confinement. He survived beatings, torture, and a starvation diet. However, he also got saved through the reading of a Bible that became available while a prisoner.

After Word War II ended he was released, and later returned to Japan to preach the gospel to the people he now loved. Mitsuo Fuchida, through the reading of a pamphlet about the salvation of DeShazer, his experience as a POW and his return to Japan as a missionary, got saved as well. They became brothers in Christ, and often preached together from the same platform.

 

             
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Friday, May 16, 2014

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Why

“And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea…These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:10-11).

Here is an interesting question to ponder, whether we are young or old…Why is it that we can read a three hundred page novel with ease, but we find it hard sometimes to schedule time each day to read a chapter from the Bible?

I suppose there are many reasons why we find it difficult to make Bible reading a part of our daily routine, and perhaps there are different issues for different people. Overall I believe the main reason it is so difficult is, that the forces of Satan are at work to keep us from the Living Word. The Devil doesn’t want us to feed on the food of heaven. He knows if we do we will grow in the Lord and lose our appetite for the worldly and fleshly things of the world. He knows too that we will be a testimony to those around us, and desire to share Christ with others. Don’t neglect your Bible!

 

             
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

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The Twelve ApostlesPart 5

Andrew

Andrew is one of the apostles we know very little about. The brother of Simon Peter, and a fisherman by trade, he was originally a disciple of John the Baptist, and heard John declare, “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1:36)! As a result we read further of him, “One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. And he brought him to Jesus” (John 1:40-42). I take him to be more of a personal, behind-the-scenes worker than his brother Peter, who took a more prominent place. This is indicated when we read: “There were certain Greeks…that came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus” (John 12:20-22). Tradition says that he later labored in Scythia, Greece, and Asia Minor, and that he was martyred at Patras in Achaia, on a cross the shape of an X.

 

             
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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Read It

Last week we took up the importance of reading our Bibles. Here is some more on the subject…

One great reason for the failure of so many Christians is they do not read their Bible. They seem to have no appetite for it. A chapter, morning and evening, seems to be all they think needful. If they treated their bodies to such scant nourishment, they would soon be in a state of collapse. The great thing is to cultivate an appetite for the Word of God. Read it a lot, and mingle your reading with lots of prayer for light and help, and for grace to make it good to your soul.

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night” (Psalm 1:1-2).

Carry a pocket edition or portion constantly with you. Don’t be ashamed to be seen reading it. Let it be your counsel. Wisdom is there, Light is thereEVERYTHING you need is there. It is the voice of God in the power of the Holy Spirit, to guide you each day.

 

             
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Monday, May 12, 2014

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Dear Young Christian:

Yesterday we noticed that the Lord Jesus gave Himself for us, body, soul and spirit. As a result we have been brought into eternal blessing, and this should motivate us to give ourselves to Him in the same way.

The Apostle Paul’s prayer for the Christians at Thessalonica was, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). This is a good prayer for all of us. To be preserved in the three parts of our being means that we can give ourselves wholly and without hindrance to the one who gave Himself wholly for us.

The Lord, in death, gave His life in sacrifice for us, and we are, in life, to give ourselves as a sacrifice to Him. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” (Romans 12:1).

Your Christian Friend,

Jim Hyland

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

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What He Gave

“Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24).

“He hath poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12).

“Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit: and having said thus, He gave up the ghost” (Luke 23:46).

What did the Lord Jesus give on our behalf? The Lord Jesus gave Himself for us in nothing less than His body, His soul and His spirit. He suffered as no one else has ever suffered, in all three aspects of His being, all at once, and for all time.

The realization of this should, and will, fill our hearts with praise and worship for Him today.

Worship Him for who He is,

Praise Him for the work;

Thank Him for the blessing given,

Through that finished work.

 

             
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