Today's Soul Food — June 6

 

Golden Words

 


And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 

(Colossians 1:1 NIV)

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The sanctified saint is one who has disciplined the body into perfect obedience to the dictates of the Spirit of God; consequently his body does with the greatest of ease whatever God wants him to do.

Oswald Chambers


Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


June 5

"Say to them, `This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the Lord, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech'." Jeremiah 7:28.

For years prophets have told us that we no longer listen to the voice of our Lord; we do not appreciate the correction we would experience if we bothered to listen to God's word. Let us read and consider the evolution of former great civilizations:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to selfishness;
6. From selfishness to complacency;
7. From complacency to apathy;
8. From apathy to dependency;
9. From dependency right back to the bondage where it all started.

We have taken the liberty of taking God's liberty and making light and license of it. We refuse to be reformed and reclaimed, for then we would have to admit that we are not our own, but God's, and our intellectual pride forbids that.

We have journeyed rather quickly from bondage to bondage. Somewhere in between we lost our bearings. The day must come that even God Himself will no longer be able to forbear us. One of our modern prophets, Billy Graham, is reported to have said, "If Jesus doesn't come back soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah."

"For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him ..." Romans 1:21a NIV.


Pat Nordman ©

 

 

Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

Spurgeon's Morning for June 5

Spurgeon's Evening for June 5
 

"The Lord shut him in."

- Genesis 7:16

  

"He that loveth not knoweth not God."

- 1 John 4:8

Noah was shut in away from all the world by the hand of divine love. The door of electing purpose interposes between us and the world which lieth in the wicked one. We are not of the world even as our Lord Jesus was not of the world.

The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return.

 

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June 5 1Ch 21:1 - 23:32

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What two Hebrew midwives refused to follow the command of Pharaoh to kill the newborn Hebrew baby boys?
 

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Today's  Devotion
 


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But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Job 16:5 (NIV)

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Wait

by Cathy Vinson

 

"Your prayer has been heard"

(Luke 1:13)

A wrestling with God is being undergone with many Christians in the form of waiting. The wait can be a fresh one where you've asked, and even as you are still perched on the edge of your seat, the answer comes as if on the same wisp of wind. It's sweet, and it's these types of experiences that get many vocal testimonies.

But there is another type of waiting, one hidden into the disgrace of the soul, where the most sincere prayer is seemingly refused. It is lifted up again and again, because it is the prayer closest to the heart. It's the thing you REALLY want. When you experience this type of wait you don't, actually you can't, keep the same heightened expectancy. The perch on the edge of your seat begins to slouch back.

Such was the type of wait for Zecharias and Elizabeth. The angel announced, "Your prayer has been heard!" Prayer...oh, the prayer of their young and energetic youth, the prayer when they and their neighbors looked
on every month for its answer. Yet there had never been a promise, only what they believed to be true about God. With deferred hope after deferred hope, that hope did begin to float into obscurity. The slouch began on their seat, and their hope began to crust over.

What transpires in these kind of years? When your most sincere prayer is refused, what is left? What happens when you "come to a point where what seems to be true conflicts with what you believe about God?"

What happened with Zecharias and Elizabeth was the actions of a devout couple. They walked "upright in the sight of God observing all the Lord commanded." (Lk 1:6) They followed and ministered to the Lord. Somehow they kept themselves from declaring "It's not going to happen," yet must have kept from the question altogether. They hadn't left the Lord, but their demeanor was one of obscured expectancy. They lost themselves in the midst of the years.

At God's time the answer did come. Even with their slouching posture, they were able to RECEIVE the answer. They had persevered. "So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will RECEIVE...." (Heb 19:35-35)

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

... there is another type of waiting, one hidden into the disgrace of the soul, where the most sincere prayer is seemingly refused. It is lifted up again and again ....

 


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