July 11
"And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt." (Genesis 41:41)
The brother they had hated and sold into slavery had gone from pit to prison to palace and finally to the pinnacle of Egypt's power and prestige. Our beloved Lord trod the same path, but in the reverse order. He went from the pinnacle of universal power to the miry pit (Psalm 40:2) of Calvary's awful shame and suffering to find you and me. On the Lord's Day, may we gratefully remember the One whom God has highly exalted and has given the name which is above every name, our Lord Jesus Christ. (Arnot P. Mclntee)
The storm that bowed Thy blessed head
Is hushed forever now,
And rest divine is ours instead,
While glory crowns Thy brow.
(H.L. ROSSIER)
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"One thing have I desired ... to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in His temple." (Psalm 27:4)
Jesus! Thou art enough
The heart and mind to fill;
Thy patient life - to calm the soul,
Thy love - its fear dispel.
O fix our earnest gaze
So wholly, Lord, on Thee,
That, with Thy beauty occupied,
We elsewhere none may see.
The perfection of the Christian life is to lose sight of oneself completely and to make
everything of Christ. The sign of a good state of soul is enjoyment of the presence of Christ. Everything that takes your eye off Christ is a snare of the devil.
(Edward Dennett)
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"Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you." (1 Peter 5:7)
Can you spread out no wants before Christ, the Giver, the Healer? Believers grieve the Spirit by not using Christ, and then God must compel them to do it.
(G.V. Wigram)
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"For I know nothing by myself ..." (1 Corinthians 4:4)
It is ever a fatal mistake when we measure the difficulties of service by what we are.
The question is what God is; and the difficulties that appear as mountains, looming through the mists of our unbelief, are nothing to Him but the occasion for the display of His omnipotent power. (Edward Dennett)
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"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God."
(Acts 16:25)
Let all lovers of souls, and all workers in the service of the gospel, take courage. Time spent in prayer will yield more than that given to work. Prayer alone gives work its worth and success. Prayer opens the way for God Himself to do His work in us and through us. Let our chief work, as God's messengers, be intercession; in it we secure the presence and power God to go with us. (Andrew Murray)
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"Now is the accepted time...." (2 Corinthians 6:2)
Do not live in yesterday for it is past. Learn its lessons, then forget the things which are behind. Do not live in tomorrow for you cannot spend time you do not have. God is the Great I Am and so is His Son, the same yesterday and forever indeed but also the same today. We tend to dwell in the bygone and feed on its memories or keep going in the anticipation that tomorrow will be better.
All you really have is this moment, this breath, this heartbeat. You cannot recall any hour that is past - how you wish you might! You cannot borrow a breath or a heartbeat from whatever supply the future holds. The only spending currency of time that you have is what you are spending while the seconds tick away as you read these words. All you have is NOW! (Vance Havner - All The Days)
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"Occupy till I come." (Luke 19:13)
There is no time to let up as long as the doors are still open to the preaching of
the gospel.
Strength! Rowing against the tide, or swimming against the tide, gives strong, firm muscles, and working for God against the tide of this world will make us strong in Him and in the power of His might. Do we really want to "Be strong"?
(Ephesians 6:10)
Work makes a strong man, and idleness a weak one. Besides, God always looks for a worker, a busy toiler, when He wants something done for Him.
- MOSES was busy with his flocks at Horeb, when God called him.
- SAUL was busy searching for his father's lost beasts.
- ELISHA was busy plowing with twelve yoke of oxen.
- DAVID was busy caring for his father's sheep.
- AMOS was busy following the flock.
- PETER & ANDREW were busy casting a net into the sea.
- JAMES & JOHN were busy mending their nets.
- MATTHEW was busy collecting customs.
"When He calls me, I will answer:
I'll be somewhere working when He comes."
(Garments of Strength - Zelma Argue)
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"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Psalm 22:1)
The Lord Jesus was always in perfect, sweet intimacy with God. The Lord was the One over whom God had opened the heavens and openly declared: "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased."
He was always in fellowship with God. Even in the first three hours on the cross, when most around Him hurled abuse and mockery at Him, He committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. What must it have been for Him in those three hours of darkness when God hid His face!
On the cross He bore all our sins. He who knew no sin, in whom was no sin, who never sinned, was made sin for us, forsaken by a Holy and Righteous God. Never before had He stooped to such depths. No wonder there was darkness over all the earth!
None can enter into the depth of suffering Christ endured in those three hours of darkness. It's wholly beyond our comprehension. Yet we stand in awe with hearts bowed in praise, adoration, and worship. He is worthy. (A. Blok)
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And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem. . . .
Luke 24:33
The Emmaus disciples had already walked seven miles home from Jerusalem, sad and discouraged, although it was the very day our Lord had said He would rise from the dead.
When He made Himself known, they rose up the same hour and retraced their steps, no longer sad or weary. It must have been the most exciting seven miles they ever traveled. Seven miles of sighing became seven miles of singing!
What a host of weary pilgrims need today is a contact with the living Christ, true to the Scriptures, warming their hearts, showing up at home, and making happy witnesses of them all. All the Days - Vance Havner
How many times discouraged, we sink beside the way ;
About us all is darkness, we hardly dare to pray;
Then from the mists and shadows, the sweetest voice e'er known,
Says, "Child, am I not with thee, never to leave thee alone?"
O soul, hast thou forgotten, the tender word and sweet,
Of Him who left behind Him the print of bleeding feet?
"I never will forsake thee, O child so weary grown;
Remember, I have promised never to leave thee alone."
Take courage, weary pilgrim, tho' mists and shadows hide
The face of Him thou lovest, He's ever at thy side;
Reach out thy hand and find Him, and lo, the clouds have flown;
He smiles on thee Who promised, never to leave thee alone. (Anon)
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Colossians 3:1-2
World-bordering is perilous for our souls in this age. It exposes us unnecessarily to the enemy. We are only safe as we take our place definitely outside everything here,
as dead to it.
When our minds are really set upon things above, with the risen Christ as our sole object, we are proof against the seductions of the world and the devil.
A position of compromise, once accepted, lays us open to trouble at every turn.
W. W. Fereday
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But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20
The life and happiness of the Christian is learning about Christ.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. Romans 15:4
To be associated with Christ where He is, we must follow the road He went through death.
Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 1 Peter 1:21
Hunt's Sayings
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