It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.
Psalm 118:8-9 KJV
Delay not the health of thy soul through trust in friends or in neighbors; for men will forget sooner than thou thinkest; it is better to make provisions betimes and send before thee some good than to trust in other men's help.
Thomas A. Kempis, Imitation of Christ, 1441
Daily Meditations by Pat Nordman ©
October 23
"For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the
barrier, the dividing wall of hostility" (Ephesians 2:14). If warring husbands and wives,
siblings, co-workers, church members—all who have battles going on with-in hurting hearts--would only come together before their God, who is Peace, and allow Him to destroy the
barriers of misunderstanding and hatred, how much more worthwhile and enjoyable our lives would be.
God wants to inscribe this verse on our hearts on our hearts with His
engraving tool of love. It is God Himself who will destroy that terrible dividing wall for us and make us one again.
Pat Nordman ©
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"Will ye also go away?" - John 6:67 |
"Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." - Luke 22:46 |
When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to you, and has not simple faith in him given you all the peace your spirit could desire? |
When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travelers.
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October 23 Luke 6:1 - 7:50 |
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But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
Job 16:5 (NIV)
Through Our Lips by Cathy Vinson
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As we are all learning about what prayer is and means, these quotes have recently come my way and seem to verbalize similar wisdom. They are confirming what can be the growing Relationship and delight in what praying is all about. "They tell me, Lord, that when I seem to be in speech with You, since but one voice is heard, it's all a dream, one talker aping two. Sometimes, it is, yet not as they conceive it. Rather, I seek in myself the things I hoped to say, but lo! my wells are dry. Then, seeing me empty You forsake the listener's role and through my dumb lips breathe and into utterance wake the thoughts I never knew. And thus You neither need reply nor can; thus, while we seem two talkers, Thou are One forever and I no dreamer, but Thy dream." C S Lewis in LETTERS TO MALCOLM "God's people must pray before God Himself will rise up and work...Prayer is the union of the believer's thought with the will of God. The prayer which a believer utters on earth is but the voicing of the Lord's will in heaven. Prayer is not the expressing of our wish for God to yield to our petition and fill up our selfish desire. It is not a forcing of the Lord to change His will and perform what He is unwilling to do. No, prayer is simply speaking out the will of God through the mouth of the believer..." Watchman Nee in LET US PRAY Cathy Vinson© Send a note to Cathy Vinson , the writer of this devotion. |
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