Remind God of His Promise

From Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Remind God of His Promise May 28

And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good. (Genesis 32:12)

This is the sure way of prevailing with the Lord in prayer. We may humbly remind Him of what He has said. Our faithful God will never run back from His word, nor will He leave it unfulfilled; yet He loves to be enquired of by His people and put in mind of His promise. This is refreshing to their memories, reviving to their faith, and renewing to their hope. God's Word is given, not for His sake, but for ours. His purposes are settled, and He needs nothing to bind Him to His design of doing His people good; but He gives the promise for our strengthening and comfort. Hence He wishes us to plead it and say to Him, "Thou saidst."

"I will surely do thee good" is just the essence of all the Lord's gracious sayings, Lay a special stress on the word surely. He will do us good, real good, tasting good, only good, every good. He will make us good, and this is to do us good in the very highest degree. He will treat us as He does his saints while we are here, and that is good. He will soon take us to be with Jesus and all His chosen, and that is supremely good. With this promise in our hearts we need not fear angry Esau or anyone else. If the Lord will do us good, who can do us hurt?

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We May Speak for God

From Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" We May Speak for God May 19

Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. (Jeremiah 15:19)

Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his Lord. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the Lord would continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the Lord's winnowing work upon the professors of his day, and then the Lord gave him this word: "Thou shalt be as my mouth." What an honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For God to speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their peril. Our lips shall feed many. We shall arouse the sleeping and call the dead to life.

O dear reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our Lord.

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Is this really happening in America?

Use your freedom of speech and religion to preach the gospel in public while you can in the good ol' USA. I say that because things like what is in this video are happening more and more.



If you cannot see the video click on this link here.

Surgery for Healing

From Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Surgery for Healing May 14 Come,

and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (Hosea 6:1)

It is the Lord's way to tear before He heals. This is the honest love of His heart and the sure surgery of His hand. He also bruises before He binds up, or else it would be uncertain work. The law comes before the gospel, the sense of need before the supply of it. Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing hand of the Spirit? Has he received the spirit of bondage again to fear? This is a salutary preliminary to real gospel healing and binding up.

Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all thy jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it. Let us not linger but at once return unto the Lord from whom we have gone astray. Let us show Him our gaping wounds and beseech him to know His own work and complete it. Will a surgeon make an incision and then leave his patient to bleed to death? Will the Lord pull down our old house and then refuse to build us a better one? Dost Thou ever wantonly increase the misery of poor anxious souls? That be far from Thee, O Lord.

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Death of Bin Laden

While I do share a feeling of relief with people when I got the news of his (Bin Laden) death, I do feel a bit uneasy about it.  The reason that I feel this way is because there are people celebrating his death.  Many of these people celebrating are Christians.  The Christians are who this blog is directed at.  So before responding, please read everything and seriously think about it.

I do not know how any christian can celebrate the death of a man who is probably in Hell.  Think about it, the fact that anyone could end up in Hell should horrify us deeply, yet some of us are celebrating the fact that Bin Laden is now in Hell.  The horrifying truth of Hell should motive us to share the gospel with people, including people like Bin Laden, yet so many of us won't even do something as simple has hand out a gospel tract or leave one where a person is likely to find it. 

How many of you pray for lost souls, in hopes that they may come to Christ?  I know of at least one pastor, who prayed that Bin Laden would be saved.  How many of you have done that?  Jesus said "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you". (Matt. 5:44)  How many of you have applied what Christ said to this situation? 

A pastor, was talking about Hitler, but it applies in this situation as well.  This pastor said that he was just living up to his human potential.  Something that we all have the ability to do.  We all have it in us to do the things that Bin Laden has done, only by God's grace are we held back from doing it.  People call Bin Laden evil, and say that he did evil things.  I don't disagree, but I use God's standard of good and evil.  According to God's standard we are all evil, we all do evil things.  We are not capable of doing anything good, unless we do it through Christ.  Without Christ everything we do is dirty, rotten, and evil. 

So, before you go off celebrating this man's death, think about what you would really be doing in the light of God's truth.