Today's Soul Food — March 29
 

 

GOLDEN WORDS



If  thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

Proverbs 24:10  KJV


If you falter in times of trouble,
how small is your strength!

Proverbs 24:10  NASB


If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.

Proverbs 24:10 NIV

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We are too little to be always able to rise above difficulties. Well, then, let us pass beneath them quite simply.

St. Therese de Lisieux

 

Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


March 29

"You have advisors by the ton your astrologers and stargazers, who try to tell you what the future holds...But...theirs is no fire to sit beside to make you warm!" Isaiah 47:13,14 TLB.

We all like to know what's going to happen in our lives. Astrology feeds on our voracious inquisitiveness, and the daily papers oblige. Even television accommodates; we see advertising now for psychics. It is almost a spiritual physic for us to have our psychic. "For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths" 2 Timothy 4:3,4. We have gathered around us "teachers" who soothe our itching, curious ears with generics and strange genetics.

But "From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you" Isaiah 48:6; "Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings..." Romans 16:25,26. The astrologers are not to validate and establish us; Christ's gospel of good news will do that for us. Faith takes the place of curiosity, and peace is established in our borders.

"...Nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work which is by faith" 1 Timothy 1:4. "My times are in your hands..." (Psalm 31:15), Father, not the horoscopes which try to peer into the future. Your vision, not television, will reveal to us only that which we need to know. Anything else is a perishscope!

Pat Nordman ©

 


Today's Bible Question ?



   How many Philistines were killed by Samson with a jawbone? 

Previous question and Answer:

Where did the prostitute Rahab live?

Jerico — Joshua 2:1-6

 

 

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

Spurgeon's Morning for March 29

Spurgeon's Evening for March 29

 

"I called him, but he gave me no answer."

-  Song of Solomon 5:6

 

"Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."

-  Hebrews 5:8

Unanswered petitions are not unheard. God keeps a file for our prayers--they are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King's archives. This is a registry in the court of heaven wherein every prayer is recorded.

Must Christ pass through seas of his own blood to win the crown, and are we to walk to heaven dryshod in silver slippers? No, our Master's experience teaches us that suffering is necessary, and the true-born child of God must not, would not, escape it if he might.


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March 29 Joshua14:1 - 16:10
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Hearing God

The young man had lost his job and didn't know which way to turn. So he went to see the old preacher.

Pacing about the preacher's study, the young man ranted about his problem. Finally he clenched his fist and shouted, "I've begged God to say something to help me. Tell me, Preacher, why doesn't God answer?"

The old preacher, who sat across the room, spoke something in reply -- something so hushed it was indistinguishable. The young man stepped across the room. "What did you say?" he asked.

The preacher repeated himself, but again in a tone as soft as a whisper. So the young man moved closer until he was leaning on the preacher's chair. "Sorry," he said. "I still didn't hear you."

With their heads bent together, the old preacher spoke once more. "God sometimes whispers," he said, "so we will move closer to hear Him." This time the young man heard and he understood.

We all want God's voice to thunder through the air with the answer to our problem. But God's is the still, small voice. . . the gentle whisper.

Perhaps there's a reason. Nothing draws human focus quite like a whisper. God's whisper means I must stop my ranting and move close to Him, until my head is bent together with His. And then, as I listen, I will find my answer. Better still, I find myself closer to God. In times of trouble and pain, we need to come to our Heavenly Father in prayer both for the answer and also to show the Lord our trust in Him. There is nothing impossible with the Lord. He is the answer and through Him shall all of our troubles cease. I encourage you to call upon the Lord today and speak to God not as a superficial being but speak to the Lord as a friend. He knows you better than you know yourself.

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Today's  Devotion
 

Ouch!

 

"Jesus knowing in Himself that out of Himself power had gone forth..."

Mk 5:29 Gr Int


What do we really expect from prayer, our prayers? Do we think Jesus will remain the same as a result? Untouched? Effecting Him is so desired! What goes out from Jesus WILL help the situation of need, bring change, alter the natural course of cause and effect. And in all these, isn't He glorified?

In John 16:15-16 we learn if Jesus is "taken from," and in turn manifests Himself, this brings glory to Him. Won't we then want to curb what we may of Jesus - and believe that He would WANT us to!

I believe He wants to be touched; He wants to be engaged. He wants power to proceed from out of Him. Prayer is not to simply recite a checklist with the result that "God is in His heaven, and all is right with the world" (R L Stevenson). No...it is not that He walks a parallel existence of resurrection life in Himself, as we struggle on in our weaknesses while "never the twain shall meet."

I believe we should approach Him as to leave Him touched, "taken from." Consider the beauty on the receiving end where Jesus so comes. We exclaim with the crowd: "He does all things well!" (Mk 7:37). And He will!

Oh, isn't it a blessed calling to be "one" where God "saw there was no one; He was appalled that there was no one to intercede..." (Is 59:16).

Let us lay hold upon this grace until if it were possible we might sense the "ouch" of the Divine.

© Send a note to Cathy Vinson , the writer of this devotion

 
What do we really expect from prayer, our prayers? Do we think Jesus will remain the same as a result? Untouched?

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