“Precious souls sometimes fight tremendous battles in order to attain to righteousness in trying places. Perhaps the heart has become wrong in some matter where temptation has been allowed to overcome, or at least to turn it aside from its singleness unto God; and the conflict is a terrible one as it seeks to adjust itself and be right with God, and finds itself baffled by its own spiritual foes, and its own helplessness, perplexity and perversity. How dark and dreary the struggle, and how helpless and ineffectual it often seems at such times! It is almost sure to strive in the spirit of the law, and the result always is condemnation and failure.
Every disobedience is met by a blow of wrath, and discouragement, and it well nigh sinks to despair. Oh, if the tempted and struggling one could only understand or remember what perhaps he has learned before, that Christ is our righteousness, and that it is not by law but by grace alone. That is the secret of the whole battle.”
AB Simpson
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A beautiful post about the power of intercessory prayer by a dear friend in Christ
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/the-purple-shawl/?preview=true
In the gloom a light glimmers and glows.
We have received an invitation.
We are invited to make a pilgrimage—
into the heart and life of God.
The invitation has long been on public record.
You can hardly look anywhere across the human scene and not encounter it.
It is literally “blowing in the wind.”
A door of welcome seems open to everyone without exception.
No person or circumstance other than our own decision can keep us away.
“Whosoever will may come.”
Dallas Willard
What can we wish for more than "to know Christ and to be found in him?"
Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace;
our judgment with persuasion of the certainty of his teachings;
our memory with recollections of what he has done,
and our imagination with the prospects of what he is yet to do.
Charles Spurgeon
Another favourite holiness song
I have been reading Samuel L. Brengle on holiness recently which was on my mind today. Here is my thoughts in today's blog post.
https://devotionaltreasure.wordpress.com/2021/03/19/seeking-holiness/?preview=true
Myanmar coup using AI to track protesters with facial recognition, also Uighers being tracked and persecuted. https://news.trust.org/item/20210318130045-zsgja
#23rd Psalm
The Lord is my Shepherd = that’s relationship
I shall not want= that’s provision
He make the me to lie down in green pastures=that’s peace
He leadeth me beside the still waters= that’s refreshment
He restore my soul= that’s healing
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness = that’s guidance
For His namesake = that’s purpose
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death= that’s testing
I will fear no evil= that’s protection (trust)
For thou art with me= that’s faithfulness
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me = that’s discipline
Thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my mine enemies = that’s provision in scurity
Thou anointest my head with oil= that’s consecration
My cup runneth over= that’s abundance
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life = that’s blessing
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord= that’s security
Forever =that’s eternity
The 23rd Psalm
Choices - life is full of them. But only two have the most significance. That of between the Light and darkness!
O LORD, our God, how majestic is Your name. The nations rage against You as they seek to destroy Your faithful church. While I can’t fathom the terror they are encountering, I speak Psalm 91 over them. I ask that Your miraculous hand will keep the believers in Myanmar as invisible against the hoard of the enemy. Father, raise up Your banner-LORD MOST HIGH. Dispatch Your warrior angels to come to the defense of these precious brothers and sisters of ours. Help!! Your word says You will never allow the righteous to beg for bread. I beseech You Lord to feed, protect, and strengthen that which remains. In Jesus’s name, Amen.
Did anyone else catch the prayer for the opening of the US Senate on January 3?
Hebrews 6:10
John 15:5
Retired pastor/teacher to inner city homeless/drug/alcohol addicted.