2 quotes

"Redemption means that I can be delivered from the heredity of sin and through Jesus Christ can receive an unsullied heredity, viz., the Holy Spirit."   Oswald Chambers

"God is always right, always trustworthy, and He loves us deeply."  Mark Thomas

I thought these were really great reminders.

Selected quotes. Challenge and Encouragement

"You must maintain continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame.
God has called you to a higher standard. 
Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest; your best for His glory."

"The honour of Jesus Christ is at stake in your bodily life."
                                                                      (Oswald Chambers)

"May this day be a day of power with me as to some noble effort for the glory of God and the good of my fellowmen! I am wholly at Thy disposal; willing, yea, eager to be used of Thee for Thy holy purposes."

"Let us not fear any danger, for He is mighty to save!"

"This day let us just stow ourselves away in our hiding place and sit and sing under the protection of our Covert. Blessed Jesus! Blessed Jesus! How we love Thee! Well we may, for Thou art to us a shelter in the time of storm."

"Let us this day run to Him and be at peace."

"Our Lord Jesus, the glorious man, is a covert which is never blown down. In Him we mark the tempest sweeping by, but we ourselves rest in delightful serenity."
                                           (Charles Spurgeon's Checkbook of Faith)

"Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: My God will hear me.
Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I shall arise; 
When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me." Micah 7:7-8.

I hope you find these as encouraging and challenging as I have this past week.

Quote from today's "My Utmost for His Highest"

"Never allow anything to come between yourself and Jesus Christ, no emotion, or experience; nothing must keep you from the one great sovereign Source."
Oswald Chambers

A prayer and a reminder.

"Lord Jesus, I have found Thee; be found of me to an unutterable degree of joyous satisfaction."
           C.H. Spurgeon

"in the first waking moment of the day... swing the door of your heart wide open... let God in... and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God."
            Oswald Chambers


Amen!

Excerpt from today's "My Utmost for His Highest" devotional

"You have no business trying to find out where God is leading— the only thing God will explain to you is Himself."
http://utmost.org/

This struck me as an interesting concept. Are we willing to surrender our desire to know what's going to happen next, and just trust our Father who works all things for the good of those who love Him?

Forgiveness of sin etc.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. Psalm 145:8

Spurgeon's Evening by Evening devotional for November 27th.

 "The forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace."—Ephesians 1:7.
OULD there be a sweeter word in any language than that word "forgiveness," when it sounds in a guilty sinner's ear, like the silver notes of jubilee to the captive Israelite? Blessed, for ever blessed be that dear star of pardon which shines into the condemned cell, and gives the perishing a gleam of hope amid the midnight of despair! Can it be possible that sin, such sin as mine, can be forgiven, forgiven altogether, and for ever? Hell is my portion as a sinner—there is no possibility of my escaping from it while sin remains upon me—can the load of guilt be uplifted, the crimson stain removed? Can the adamantine stones of my prison-house ever be loosed from their mortices, or the doors be lifted from their hinges? Jesus tells me that I may yet be clear. For ever blessed be the revelation of atoning love which not only tells me that pardon is possible, but that it is secured to all who rest in Jesus. I have believed in the appointed propitiation, even Jesus crucified, and therefore my sins are at this moment, and for ever, forgiven by virtue of His substitutionary pains and death. What joy is this! What bliss to be a perfectly pardoned soul! My soul dedicates all her powers to Him who of His own unpurchased love became my surety, and wrought out for me redemption through His blood. What riches of grace does free forgiveness exhibit! To forgive at all, to forgive fully, to forgive freely, to forgive for ever! Here is a constellation of wonders; and when I think of how great my sins were, how dear were the precious drops which cleansed me from them, and how gracious was the method by which pardon was sealed home to me, I am in a maze of wondering worshipping affection. I bow before the throne which absolves me, I clasp the cross which delivers me, I serve henceforth all my days the Incarnate God, through whom I am this night a pardoned soul.

Jesus Christ lifted up upon the Cross has such mighty power that if a man had all the sins of mankind resting upon him, yet, if he did but look to Christ by faith, his sins would be all gone in a moment!

 ~  Charles Spurgeon

Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest Calendar for November 28th.

"... being justified freely by His grace..." Romans 3:24

"We have to realize that we cannot earn or win anything from God through our own efforts. Until we get there, our Lord is powerless. He can do nothing for us as long as we think we are sufficient in and of ourselves. We must enter into His kingdom through the door of destitution."

These themes tie in very well with the messages at Barn Camp, so I thought I'd share them with you all.