Day: September 4, 2017

​Stephen ThomasWords to Ponder

Stephen Thomas

Words to Ponder

We quickly learn that God is more interested in our holiness than in our comfort. He more greatly delights in the integrity and purity of his church than in the material well-being of its members. He shows himself more clearly to men and women who enjoy him and obey him than to men and women whose horizons revolve around good jobs, nice houses, and reasonable health. He is far more committed to building a corporate ‘temple’ in which his Spirit dwells than he is in preserving our reputations. He is more vitally disposed to display his grace than to flatter our intelligence. He is more concerned for justice than for our ease. He is more deeply committed to stretching our faith than our popularity. He prefers that his people live in disciplined gratitude and holy joy rather than in pushy self-reliance and glitzy happiness. He wants us to pursue daily death, not self-fulfillment, for the latter leads to death, while the former leads to life. – D.A. Carson (20th

​Steve Hammer

Steve Hammer

2 Tim 2 :15 (KJV)

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God,

a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

rightly dividing the word of truth.

The Bible teacher who becomes a substitute

for diligent study on the part of those who

hear him is a hindrance and not a help. The

business of the teacher is to turn people to

the searching of the scripture for themselves,

stimulating their interest in the sacred Word,

and instructing them on how to go about it.

A. W. Pink

Eph 6:17 and take the helmet of salvation,

and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word

of God:

“Swords are meant to cut and hack, and

wound, and kill with, and the word of truth is

for pricking men in the heart and killing their

sins. The word of God is not committed to

God’s ministers to amuse men with its glitter,

nor to charm them with the jewels in its hilt,

but to conquer their souls for

Jesus.” (Spurgeon)

​Sharon Moles

Sharon Moles

PROPHETIC SIGNS ARE INDEED ACCELERATING — LIKE A CLOCK SPED UP WITH HANDS SWOOPING AROUND THE CLOCKS’ FACE.

First of all, the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 across the entire continental United States.

Since then, as I shared earlier in another thread: California is on fire, Oregon is on fire, Montana is on fire, areas of Canada are on fire, Texas is underwater, Idaho just had a 5.3 earthquake and a series of smaller ones, and Hurricane Irma is forming in the Atlantic, as well as Hurricane Jose. These are just the events happening in the United States.

ISIS had ramped up their atrocities, beheading Christians.

Turkey, Iran, Syria, Russia are all poised for a big explosion in the Middle East, centered around Israel and next to the Golan Heights.

A push for a “peace agreement” between Israel and Palestinians is heating up, along with the rhetoric of “peace and security”.

Oh, yes. North Korea just fired off another missile test, and reportedly tested a hydrogen bomb, that created an earthquake.

LOOK UP. KEEP LOOKING. JESUS IS INDEED COMING IMMINENTLY.

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Melissa Cook

North Korea has a H-Bomb. It is all ramping up and we must continue to lean on the Lord and pray.

​Dave Hunt

Dave Hunt

Historian/philosopher Herbert Schlossberg

reminds us, “Animals do not act morally or

immorally; they only act naturally. A system

of ethics that says human beings ought to

base their behavior on nature therefore

justifies any behavior, because nature knows

no ethic.” Nobelist Sir John Eccles agrees:

“The concepts of injustice, unfairness . . . the

obligations to honor, to respect . . . are

intelligible only within a moral context and to

moral beings. In the mindless universe of

mere nature . . . there is neither justice nor

mercy, neither liberty nor fairness. There are

only facts.”

​Steve Hammer

Steve Hammer

“Today I take up my cross, willingly, but

not woefully. It is the instrument of my

death and I carry it forward with each step

in the strength and joy of my risen Lord

Yeshua, who, for the joy set before him

endured it; despising the shame. May his

life and the power of his resurrection be

joyfully and evidently manifested to all I

encounter today and may I cause Him no

shame. “- Gary R Lynch (Excerpted from

Diary of A Dead Man)

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​Streams in the Desert – September 4

Streams in the Desert – September 4
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And when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him (Joshua 6:5).
The shout of steadfast faith is in direct contrast to the moans of wavering faith, and to the wails of discouraged hearts. Among the many “secrets of the Lord,” I do not know of any that is more valuable than the secret of this shout of faith. The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.” He had not said, “I will give,” but “I have given.” It belonged to them already; and now they were called to take possession of it. But the great question was, How? It looked impossible, but the Lord declared His plan.
Now, no one can suppose for a moment that this shout caused the walls to fall. And yet the secret of their victory lay in just this shout, for it was the shout of a faith which dared, on the authority of God’s Word alone, to claim a promised victory, while as yet there were no signs of this victory being accomplished. And according to their faith God did unto them; so that, when they shouted, He made the walls to fall.
God had declared that He had given them the city, and faith reckoned this to be true. And long centuries afterwards the Holy Ghost recorded this triumph of faith in Hebrews: “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.”

–Hannah Whitall Smith
Faith can never reach its consummation,

Till the victor’s thankful song we raise:

In the glorious city of salvation,

God has told us all the gates are praise.

Oswald Chambers 

His!
September 4, 2017
They were Yours, You gave them to Me… —John 17:6
   
A missionary is someone in whom the Holy Spirit has brought about this realization: “You are not your own” (1 Corinthians 6:19). To say, “I am not my own,” is to have reached a high point in my spiritual stature. The true nature of that life in actual everyday confusion is evidenced by the deliberate giving up of myself to another Person through a sovereign decision, and that Person is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit interprets and explains the nature of Jesus to me to make me one with my Lord, not that I might simply become a trophy for His showcase. Our Lord never sent any of His disciples out on the basis of what He had done for them. It was not until after the resurrection, when the disciples had perceived through the power of the Holy Spirit who Jesus really was, that He said, “Go” (Matthew 28:19; also see Luke 24:49 and Acts 1:8).
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26). He was not saying that this person cannot be good and upright, but that he cannot be someone over whom Jesus can write the word Mine. Any one of the relationships our Lord mentions in this verse can compete with our relationship with Him. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself, but if that is the case, then, Jesus said, “[You] cannot be My disciple.” This does not mean that I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be entirely His.
Our Lord makes His disciple His very own possession, becoming responsible for him. “…you shall be witnesses to Me…” (Acts 1:8). The desire that comes into a disciple is not one of doinganything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The missionary’s secret is truly being able to say, “I am His, and He is accomplishing His work and His purposes through me.”
Be entirely His!
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
It is impossible to read too much, but always keep before you why you read. Remember that “the need to receive, recognize, and rely on the Holy Spirit” is before all else. Approved Unto God, 11 L