Today's Soul Food — November 22

Golden Words

      


A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all; 

Psalm 34:19  NIV

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Wouldn't it be great if we could escape all the troubles and woes of life on this earth? It isn't going to happen! Life promises us a life of troubles. Life is painful. Though life will bring us grief and sorrow, we do not have to go it alone. God will be with us and deliver us. Thank God for sticking close to you in your troubles.

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As sure as God puts his children into the furnace of affliction, he will be with them in it. 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon



Daily Meditations by  Pat Nordman ©

 


November 22

"Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife" (Genesis 16:3 NAS).

 It's a sad story of lack of trust and patience. Sarai compounded it by blaming God for her barrenness. In-stead of waiting for God to unfold His plan in His good time, Sarai took matters into her human hands and got on with getting her husband the promised heir. There is no record of Sarai consulting with God before they both went about doing God's work--they thought. The story that unfolds is quite grievous. God works out His intentions in His time, not ours...


Pat Nordman ©

 


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Excerpts from today's Spurgeon's Devotions

With links to the entire devotion

Spurgeon's Morning for November 22

Spurgeon's Evening for November 22


"Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep."

- Hosea 12:12


"The power of his resurrection."

- Philippians 3:10

 


Was not the toil of Jesus for his Church the toil of one who was under suretiship obligations to bring every believing one safe to the hand of him who had committed them to his charge?


It would take a volume to set forth all the streams of living water which flow from this one sacred source, the resurrection of our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; ...

 

   

 

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November 22  Romans 11:1 - 13:14

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Current Bible Question



Who was put in prison as a political enemy of the Philistines?     
 


Previous question and Answer:

What prophet of Moab had a talking Donkey ?

Numbers 22:21-33
[28] Then the Lord caused the donkey to speak. "What have I done to you that deserves your beating me these three times?" it asked Balaam. 


 

 

Radical Gratitude

 The following is an excerpt from the diary of George Muller, who founded orphanages in Victorian England. 

August 18, 1838: I have not one penny in hand for the orphans. In a day or two again many pounds will be needed. My eyes are up to the Lord. Evening. Before this day is over, I have received from a sister five pounds. She had some time since put away her trinkets, to be sold for the benefit of the orphans. This morning, whilst in prayer, it came to her mind, I have this five pounds, and owe no man anything, therefore it would be better to give this money at once, as it may be some time before I can dispose of the trinkets. She therefore brought it, little knowing that there was not a penny in hand, and that I had been able to advance only four pounds, fifteen shillings and five pence for housekeeping in the Boys' Orphan-House, instead of the usual ten pounds. 
August 23: Today I was again without one single penny, when three pounds was sent from Clapham, with a box of new clothes for the orphans. 
Muller was later to look back on the period from September 1838 to the end of 1846 as the time when the greatest trials of faith were experienced in the orphan work. They were not years of continuous difficulty: rather there tended to be a pattern of a few months of trial, followed by some months of comparative plenty. During the whole period, according to Muller, the children knew nothing of the trial. In the midst of one of the darkest periods, he recorded, "These dear little ones know nothing about it, because their tables are as well supplied as when there was eight hundred pounds in the bank, and they have lack of nothing." At another time he wrote, "The orphans have never lacked anything. Had I had thousands of pounds in hand, they would have fared no better than they have; for they have always had good nourishing food, the necessary articles of clothing, etc." In other words, the periods of trial were so in the sense that there was no excess of funds: God supplied the need by the day, even by the hour. Enough was sent, but no more than enough. 

--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988) p. 261. 

 

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Today's  Devotion
 

 

...and by his light I walked through darkness!    JOB 29:3 NIV

 

Noise 

by Pat Nordman 

 

They have made a noise ... 

Lamentations 2:7a NKJV

I work in a library. Several years ago I decided one day to peruse a back issue of the Congressional Record, a most interesting document that we get daily. Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie was (he may still be) the Chaplain of the Senate. I started reading his prayer and decided to copy it since I am an apostle of silence. We live in a world that is plastered with noise. My friends are telling me that I am becoming a fanatic about the noise we can't seem to ignore because it assaults us on every side. I would like to share this wonderful prayer:

Dear Father,

Our lives are polluted with noise. The blaring sounds of a noisy society bombard our ears and agitate our souls. The television set is seldom turned off. We turn on our car radio at the same time we turn the ignition key. Music is piped into everywhere we go, from the grocery to the gym. On the streets, horns blare, tires screech, and tempers flare. Meanwhile, people around us talk constantly trying to find out what they want to say in the welter of words. It's so easy to lose the art of being quiet.

Even in this quiet moment, our minds are racing, our nervous systems are on red alert and we're like sprinters waiting for the starter's gun to go off. Calm us down, Lord, so we can work creatively today.

Lord, we hear Your voice saying, "Peace, be still." We want the miracle of that stillness and accept it as Your gift. We breathe out the tension and breathe in the breath of Your spirit. In this time of prayer speak to us the whisper of Your love and assurance, grace, and guidance. Get us ready for a day in which we can be still inside while living in a noisy world. In the name of our Lord and Savior.

Amen.

  Isaiah 30:15 tells us, "In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." There is no way on this blathering, blasting earth we can enter the Heart of God unless we go to the Mountaintop with Jesus! That means shutting off the computers (yes, Pat, you too!), TVs, radios, telephones and all the other paraphernalia that shouts at us. The last straw is the car that talks to us!


© Pat Nordman


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1 Thes. 5:18

 


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