Surrender... I am not "My Own".

WTs this Morning:

1. We are "his own" saints. I am not "my own".
2. He loves "his own".
3.  He lavishes on us his perfect love, no failure or imperfection. Rest in it today.
4. Submit my pride to him, my dreams, my rights.
5. Give up my pride for the promise of new life.
6. Count all the world knows as loss. Worldliness and wants... let them go to my great King Jesus.

Lord, forgive me for trying to earn your favor. I can rest under the shadow of your wings today as I am yours. Help me to remember that I am not my own. My life is yours completely. Do with it as you wish. I surrender all to you... Love that song...

I surrender...
all to you...
all to you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oyHpLg32c8

"I Surrender All to You"  Lincoln Brewster

Im giving You my heart and all that is within
I lay it all down for the sake of You my King
Im giving you my dreams, Im laying down my rights
Im giving up my pride for the promise of new life

And I surrender
All to You, all to You

Im singing You this song, Im waiting at the cross
And all the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
For the sake of knowing You for the glory of Your name
To know the lasting joy, even sharing in Your pain

 

 

 

Faith's Check Book, Daily Entry

C. H. Spurgeon

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December 30

Loved to Perfection

Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. (John 13:1)
This fact is essentially a promise; for what our Lord was He is, and what He was to those with whom He lived on earth, He will be to all His beloved so long as the moon endureth. "Having loved": here was the wonder! That He should ever have loved men at all is the marvel. What was there in His poor disciples that He should love them? What is there in me? But when He has once begun to love, it is His nature to continue to do so. Love made the saints "his own"—what a choice title! He purchased them with blood, and they became His treasure. Being His own, He will not lose them. Being His beloved, He will not cease to love them. My soul, He will not cease to love thee! The text is well as it stands: "to the end." Even till His death the ruling passion of love to His own reigned in His sacred bosom. It means also to the uttermost. He could not love them more: He gave Himself for them. Some read it, to perfection. Truly He lavished upon them a perfect love, in which there was no flaw nor failure, no unwisdom, no unfaithfulness. Such is the love of Jesus to each one of His people. Let us sing to our Well-beloved a song.

It's a New Day Dawning!

WT -
The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning! It's time to sing your song again. Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me, let me be singing when the evening comes.   Amen

"10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtwIT8JjddM

[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning
It's time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes (LOVE THIS STANZA!)
[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger
Your name is great, and Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find

[Chorus]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

And on that day when my strength is failing
The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore

[Chorus x2]
Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name

Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
Lord, I'll worship Your holy name

Sing like never before
O my soul
I'll worship Your holy name
Jesus, I'll worship Your holy name
I'll worship Your holy name

We are but PILGRIMS.

Trials and Pain: Long Eternity to Enjoy Ourselves

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.... And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.—1 John 2:15,17
Any appeal to the public in the name of Christ that rises no higher than an invitation to tranquillity must be recognized as mere humanism with a few words of Jesus thrown in to make it appear Christian....
Christ calls men to carry a cross; we call them to have fun in His name. He calls them to forsake the world; we assure them that if they but accept Jesus the world is their oyster. He calls them to suffer; we call them to enjoy all the bourgeois comforts modern civilization affords. He calls them to self-abnegation and death; we call them to spread themselves like green bay trees or perchance even to become stars in a pitiful fifth-rate religious zodiac. He calls them to holiness; we call them to a cheap and tawdry happiness that would have been rejected with scorn by the least of the Stoic philosophers....
We can afford to suffer now; we'll have a long eternity to enjoy ourselves. And our enjoyment will be valid and pure, for it will come in the right way at the right time. Born After Midnight, pp. 141-142
"Lord, may I be faithful to call people to that which is important to You, at whatever cost. Thank You that 'we can afford to suffer now; we'll have a long eternity to enjoy ourselves.' Amen."

WTs:
1. This world and the things of this world are passing. Keep our eyes on heaven.
2.We are pilgrims passing through.
3. My stuff is not my own, neither is my life.
4.Enjoy what God brings my way.Do not fear it.
5. Simple Pleasures. Remember to capture them.

He is Stronger.

Lyrics to Stronger : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9DEIC0KcYk

There is love that came for us
Humbled to a sinner's cross you broke my shame and sinfuless you rose again victorious

Faithfulness none can deny through the strom and through the fire there is truth that sets me free Jesus Christ who lives in me

Chorus
You are stronger you are stronger
Sin is broken you have saved me it is written Christ is risen Jesus you are Lord of all

No beginning and no end You're my hope and my defence you came to seek and save the lost you paid it all upon the cross

So let your name be lifted higher
Be lifted higher be lifted higher

There is love that came for us
Humbled to a sinner's cross you broke my shame and sinfuless you rose again victorious

Faithfulness none can deny through the strom and through the fire there is truth that sets me free Jesus Christ who lives in me

Chorus
You are stronger you are stronger
Sin is broken you have saved me it is written Christ is risen Jesus you are Lord of all

No beginning and no end You're my hope and my defence you came to seek and save the lost you paid it all upon the cross

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LOVE THIS SONG, TOO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgi-G-dHYkY

You are More

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.
'Cause this is not about what you've done,
But what's been done for you.
This is not about where you've been,
But where your brokenness brings you to

This is not about what you built,
But what He built to forgive you,
And what He built to make you know.

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Seek to be in His Will

WTs: 1. Let patience have its work in me. 2. Do not seek to be happy. Seek to be in the will of God and accept the circumstances he brings in His will. Take the bitter with the sweet as it may come. He is sovereign and knows how much we can take of happiness and trials. Trials and Pain: Heartache or Happiness AW Tozer My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.—James 1:2-4 From the trials and triumphs of Paul, we gather, too, that happiness is really not indispensable to a Christian. There are many ills worse than heartaches. It is scarcely too much to say that prolonged happiness may actually weaken us, especially if we insist upon being happy as the Jews insisted upon flesh in the wilderness. In so doing, we may try to avoid those spiritual responsibilities which would in the nature of them bring a certain measure of heaviness and affliction to the soul. The best thing is neither to seek nor seek to avoid troubles but to follow Christ and take the bitter with the sweet as it may come. Whether we are happy or unhappy at any given time is not important. That we be in the will of God is all that matters. We may safely leave with Him the incident of heartache or happiness. He will know how much we need of either or both. We Travel an Appointed Way, p. 80 "Lord, may I indeed be 'in the will of God' today. I'll 'leave with [You] the incident of heartache or happiness.' I can trust You to decide wisely. Amen."

Idoling Self

Trials and Pain: The Labor of Self-love For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.—Galatians 1:10 The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol. How then can you hope to have inward peace? The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest. Continue this fight through the years and the burden will become intolerable. Yet the sons of earth are carrying this burden continually, challenging every word spoken against them, cringing under every criticism, smarting under each fancied slight, tossing sleepless if another is preferred before them. Such a burden as this is not necessary to bear. Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is His method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. The Pursuit of God, 112. "Lord, give me this peace, this rest, this meek and humble spirit this morning. Deliver me from concern for the esteem of this world. Give me victory today over every trace of self-love. Amen." WTs: The esteem of the world is not worth the effort. Do not set self up as a little god. Let go of any fierce effort to protect myself from any slights. Do not cringe under criticism. Jesus calls us to His rest. Meeekness is His method. Lord, help me to let go of protecting myself from criticism. I pray not to cringe at it,but to know my worth is in you.Deliver me from concern. Give me victory today over every trace of self-love. Give me this peace, this rest, this meek and humble spirit this morning. Amen.

Devotional Prayers - Henry Thornton

From Devotional Prayers

Henry Thornton

 

Pray to:

1.     Be spiritually and heavenly minded.

2.    Be moderate in my enjoyments.

3.    Bear affliction with a patient and quiet mind.

4.   In prosperity, be ever watchful over myself and moderate in my enjoyment. Impart freely the gifts he has given me to others.

5.    Cultivate every Christian temper.

6.   Be filled with joy and peace in believing which shall be more than compensation for all the temporal sacrifices to which we may be called.