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Post by elizabeth on Feb 3, 2014 18:12:30 GMT
NOTHING DAUNTED - 1 1
"Blessed are they that . . . seek Him with the whole heart" (Psalm 119:2).
Once the Holy Spirit instills within our hearts the hunger for God's very best, all must and will become secondary to this supreme goal: " . . .the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 3:14). Our puny, worthless all exchanged for the One who is All in all! " For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen" (Romans 11:36) .
"A sage of India was asked by a young man how he could find God. For some time the sage gave no answer, but one evening he asked the youth to come and bathe with him in the river. While there he gripped him suddenly and held his head under the water until he was nearly drowned. When he released him the sage asked him: 'What did you want most when you were under the water?' 'A breath of air,' he replied. To which the sage answered, 'When you want God as you wanted the breath of air, you will find Him.'" -G.G.
"Every Christian will become at last what his desires have made him. We are all the sum total of our hungers. The great saints have all had thirsting hearts. Their cry has been, 'My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God....' Their longing after God all but consumed them; it propelled them onward and upward to heights toward which less ardent believers look with and entertain no hope of reaching."
"For He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness" (Psalm 107:9) Pembroke Bible Chapel Fair Use For Educational or Discussion Purposes
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Post by Benjamin on Feb 4, 2014 22:24:56 GMT
I've always loved the verse that says "take your delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart". What strikes me about this particular verse is that the reference itself is entirely circular. If your delight is in The Lord, He *IS* the desire of your heart, is He not? What God is promising here isn't to give us health, happiness and prosperity, but to give us HIMSELF. ...and what more could we possibly want?
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Post by elizabeth on Feb 5, 2014 0:29:09 GMT
Oh Benjamin, that is so true.
If only people understood how easily it is to fall into the habit of adoring the Lord. I can't explain it, but it has changed my life. Here's something written that I thought might be good to post here:
Norman Douty writes: "If I am to be like Him, then God in His grace must do it, and the sooner I come to recognize it the sooner I will be delivered from another form of bondage. Throw down every endeavor and say, I cannot do it, the more I try the farther I get from His likeness. What shall I do? Ah, the Holy Spirit says, You cannot do it; just withdraw; come out of it. You have been in the arena, you have been endeavoring, you are a failure, come out and sit down, and as you sit there behold Him, look at Him. Don’t try to be like Him, just look at Him. Just be occupied with Him. Forget about trying to be like Him. Instead of letting that fill your mind and heart, let Him fill it. Just behold Him, look upon Him through the Word. Come to the Word for one purpose and that is to meet the Lord. Not to get your mind crammed full of things about the sacred Word, but come to it to meet the Lord. Make it to be a medium, not of Biblical scholarship, but of fellowship with Christ. Behold the Lord."
Click here Principles of Spiritual Growth - Purpose Miles Stanford
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