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https://www.tblfaithnews.com/category/tbl-china
https://www.tblfaithnews.com/tbl-china-prayer-requests
http://www.ulsterchristians.org/
https://www.milesmckee.com/index.html
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/7125730464872/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/92614155424/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/720257857845/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/529249152843/a?autoplay=1
GUEST DEVOTIONS
PASTOR JOHAN LOURENS
While You are Waiting.
“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies Me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”Psalm 50:23 (ESV)
When we are standing in faith, waiting for a promise from God to become our reality - what we do, and how we act in that ‘waiting period’ makes all the difference. Scripture tells us the Lord is perfect in all His ways, and as we keep ourselves in line with those ways, we will see every promise come to pass in perfect timing! The thoughts we allow ourselves to ponder on, what we choose to believe, the nature of our conversations, and the way we act - must be led by His Holy Spirit and His Word - not by our feelings or natural understanding. One of the greatest battles to overcome in this waiting period is to keep our eyes and ears off of every opinion that is outside of what God’s Word says about our situation. In Ephesians 2:5-6 it says we (our spirit-beings) are presently seated with Christ, in heavenly places. Now, that is a place of victory, where the answer has already come! So, to begin with - we must see ourselves, by faith, in the spirit - stepping over, from what is our natural reality, and into what is our reality in the realm of the spirit - according to God’s Word! When our focus is fixed on that - we begin to praise and thank God for that reality! If we discipline our thoughts and words to praise God Regardless of our natural circumstances, the power of the need becomes so much smaller than the power of faith that begins to explode from within our spirit man! That faith, mixed in our words - reaches right into the unseen realm and brings every promise right into the natural! So, while you are waiting, keep yourself aligned with God’s ways of faith, and purpose to continuously praise Him from the perspective of victory! That will energize the powerful force of faith, and your confidence to see the Lord perform His Word in your life will be strengthened - carrying you right into the reality of every promise being fulfilled!
Like swine in their stye?
from Spurgeon's "Compassion for Souls"
Is it our object in life merely to live comfortably?
Are we such brute beasts that comfort is
all we care for; like swine in their stye?
No, brethren! let us recall to our memories the
tens of thousands of our race who are passing
constantly into eternity!
Look at them!
Do not close those eyes!
Does the horror of the vision make your eyeballs ache?
Then look until your heart aches too!
Look down into hell a moment; open wide the
door; listen, and listen yet again. You say you
cannot, it sickens your soul. Let it be sickened!
It is a matter of fact that in this congregation many
are going down to hell; that in this city there are
multitudes who are hastening as certainly to perdition
as time is hastening to eternity.
Hell is no dream, no fiction of a fevered brain!
Since assuredly there is a dreadful hell, do not shut
your eyes to it. Come and look, come and look, till
your hearts break at the sight. Hear the groans of
spirits who are feeling the sure consequences of sin,
where sin's cure will never avail them.
You tell me I preach dreadful things. Yes, but they
are needed, they are needed! Have we done all that
it is possible for us to do for the unconverted
around us? Can you say, "If a soul perishes, I, at
least, will have done all in my power to reclaim it."
Were there ever such sleepy people as ourselves?
O dear friend, if you love Jesus, burst the bonds
of timidity, or it may be of laziness; snap all fetters,
and from this day feel that you cannot bear to think
of the ruin of a soul, and must seek its salvation.
https://www.tblfaithnews.com/category/tbl-china
https://www.tblfaithnews.com/tbl-china-prayer-requests
http://www.ulsterchristians.org/
https://www.milesmckee.com/index.html
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/7125730464872/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/92614155424/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/720257857845/a?autoplay=1
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermons/529249152843/a?autoplay=1
GUEST DEVOTIONS
PASTOR JOHAN LOURENS
While You are Waiting.
“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies Me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”Psalm 50:23 (ESV)
When we are standing in faith, waiting for a promise from God to become our reality - what we do, and how we act in that ‘waiting period’ makes all the difference. Scripture tells us the Lord is perfect in all His ways, and as we keep ourselves in line with those ways, we will see every promise come to pass in perfect timing! The thoughts we allow ourselves to ponder on, what we choose to believe, the nature of our conversations, and the way we act - must be led by His Holy Spirit and His Word - not by our feelings or natural understanding. One of the greatest battles to overcome in this waiting period is to keep our eyes and ears off of every opinion that is outside of what God’s Word says about our situation. In Ephesians 2:5-6 it says we (our spirit-beings) are presently seated with Christ, in heavenly places. Now, that is a place of victory, where the answer has already come! So, to begin with - we must see ourselves, by faith, in the spirit - stepping over, from what is our natural reality, and into what is our reality in the realm of the spirit - according to God’s Word! When our focus is fixed on that - we begin to praise and thank God for that reality! If we discipline our thoughts and words to praise God Regardless of our natural circumstances, the power of the need becomes so much smaller than the power of faith that begins to explode from within our spirit man! That faith, mixed in our words - reaches right into the unseen realm and brings every promise right into the natural! So, while you are waiting, keep yourself aligned with God’s ways of faith, and purpose to continuously praise Him from the perspective of victory! That will energize the powerful force of faith, and your confidence to see the Lord perform His Word in your life will be strengthened - carrying you right into the reality of every promise being fulfilled!
Like swine in their stye?
from Spurgeon's "Compassion for Souls"
Is it our object in life merely to live comfortably?
Are we such brute beasts that comfort is
all we care for; like swine in their stye?
No, brethren! let us recall to our memories the
tens of thousands of our race who are passing
constantly into eternity!
Look at them!
Do not close those eyes!
Does the horror of the vision make your eyeballs ache?
Then look until your heart aches too!
Look down into hell a moment; open wide the
door; listen, and listen yet again. You say you
cannot, it sickens your soul. Let it be sickened!
It is a matter of fact that in this congregation many
are going down to hell; that in this city there are
multitudes who are hastening as certainly to perdition
as time is hastening to eternity.
Hell is no dream, no fiction of a fevered brain!
Since assuredly there is a dreadful hell, do not shut
your eyes to it. Come and look, come and look, till
your hearts break at the sight. Hear the groans of
spirits who are feeling the sure consequences of sin,
where sin's cure will never avail them.
You tell me I preach dreadful things. Yes, but they
are needed, they are needed! Have we done all that
it is possible for us to do for the unconverted
around us? Can you say, "If a soul perishes, I, at
least, will have done all in my power to reclaim it."
Were there ever such sleepy people as ourselves?
O dear friend, if you love Jesus, burst the bonds
of timidity, or it may be of laziness; snap all fetters,
and from this day feel that you cannot bear to think
of the ruin of a soul, and must seek its salvation.
