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DEVOTION for July 2nd Written and calendared by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

PRAYER 24, Part 7 of 11 DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

ANECDOTE 330: Magnifying the Ministry.

FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: July 2  REFRESHING SLEEP

-So he giveth [gives] his beloved sleep- Psalm 127:2

MORNING: “Our heart shall rejoice in Him” —Psalm 33:21

EVENING: "Unto Thee will I cry, 0 Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be

silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. " —Psalm 28:1      

A SINNER'S PRAYER

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PRAYER 24, Part 7 of 11

DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

Lord help Thy people to be right as parents. May none of us spoil our children; may there be no misconducted families to cry out against us. Help us to be right as masters [teachers]; may there be no oppression, no hardness and unkindness. Help us to be right as servants; may there be no eye service, [faking] no purloining, [stealing] but may there be everything that adorns [honors and glorifies] the Christian character. Keep us right as citizens; may we do all we can for our country, and for the times in which we live. Keep us right, we pray Thee, as citizens of the higher country [The Kingdom of God]; may we be living for it, to enjoy its privileges, and to bring others within its burgess-ship [privileged jurisdiction] , that multitudes may be made citizens of Christ through our means.

[I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.]

(Attachment: PRAYER 24.doc) 

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ANECDOTE 330: Magnifying the Ministry.

We find the most eminent of God’s servants frequently magnifying their office as preachers of the gospel. Whitfield was wont [accustomed] to call his pulpit his throne; and when he stood upon some rising knoll to preach to the thousands gathered in the open air, he was more happy than if he had assumed the imperial purple, for he ruled the hearts of men more gloriously than doth a king.

When Dr. Carey was laboring in India, and his son Felix had accepted the office of ambassador to the king of *Burma, Carey said, “Felix has drivelled [salivated with desire] into an ambassador” as *though he looked upon the highest earthly office as an utter degradation if for it [the ambassadorship] the minister of the gospel forsook his lofty vocation.

Paul blesses God that this great grace was given to him,

that he might preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

he looked upon it not as toil, but as a grace.

* English USA spelling

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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK JULY 2 REFRESHING SLEEP C.H. Spurgeon 1834 - 1892

-So he giveth [gives] his beloved sleep- Psalm 127:2

Ours is not a life of anxious [stressed out] care, but of happy faith. Our heavenly Father will supply the wants [needs] of His own children, and He knoweth [knows] what we have need of before we ask Him.

We may therefore go to our beds at the proper hour, and not wear ourselves out by sitting up late to plot, and plan, and contrive. If we have learned to rely upon our God, we shall not lie awake with fear gnawing at our hearts; but we shall leave our care with the Lord, our meditation of Him shall be sweet, and He will give us refreshing sleep.

To be the Lord’s beloved is the highest possible honor, and he who has it may feel that ambition itself could desire no more, and therefore every selfish wish may go to sleep. What more is there even in Heaven than 

The love of God?

Rest, then, O soul, for thou hast [have] all things. Yet we toss to and fro unless the Lord Himself gives us not only the reasons for rest, but rest itself. Yea, He doth [does] this.

Jesus Himself is our peace, our rest, our all. On His bosom we sleep in perfect security, both in life and in death.

Sprinkled afresh with pardoning blood,

I lay me down to rest,

As in the embraces [hugs] of my God,

Or on my Saviour’s breast .

Prayer: Thank You Father, that You give us peaceful and refreshing sleep. We are comforted and encouraged by this promise of peaceful, rest. and receiving the rest itself that You give in Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen.

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MORNING July 2

"Our heart shall rejoice in Him. " —Psalm 33:21

—En él se alegrará nuestro corazón,— Salmos 33:21

BLESSED is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages.

The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance [smiling face] ; they have a buoyancy about them that keeps their heads always above the water, and helps them to sing amid [in the midst of] the tempest [storm],

"God is with me still."

To whom shall the glory be given?

To Jesus —it is all by Jesus.

Trouble does not necessarily bring consolation with it to the believer, but the presence of the Son of God in the fiery furnace with him fills his heart with joy.

He [the believer] is sick and suffering, but Jesus visits him and makes his bed for him. He is dying, and the cold chilly waters of Jordan are gathering about him up to the neck, but Jesus puts His arms around him, and cries,

"Fear not, beloved; to die is to be blessed; the waters of death have their fountainhead [origin] in heaven; they are not bitter, they are sweet as nectar, for they flow from the throne of God."

As the departing saint wades through the stream, and the billows gather around him, and heart and flesh fail him, the same voice sounds in his ears,

"Fear not; I am with you; be not dismayed; I am your God."

As he nears the borders of the infinite unknown, and is almost affrighted to enter the realm of shades, Jesus says,

"Fear not, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

Thus strengthened and consoled, the believer is not afraid to die; nay, [not only that, but] he is even willing to depart [leave earth], for since he has seen Jesus as the morning star he longs to gaze on Him as the sun in his strength. Truly, the presence of Jesus is all the heaven we desire. He is at once …

The glory of our brightest days;

The comfort of our nights.

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EVENING July 2

"Unto Thee will I cry, 0 Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. " —Psalm 28:1

— A Tí clamaré, oh Jehová, Fortaleza mía: no te desentiendas de mí; Porque no sea yo,dejándome tú, Semejante á los que descienden al sepulcro. —Salmos 28:1

Sing: Rock of Ages  A Cappela Harmony by Mixing ONE Vocalist

A cry is the natural expression of sorrow, and a suitable utterance when all other modes of appeal fail us; but the cry must be alone directed to the Lord, for to cry to man is to waste our entreaties on the air. When we consider the readiness of the Lord to hear, and His ability to aid, we see good reason for directing all our appeals at once to the God of our salvation. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment, but our Rock [the Lord Jesus] attends to our cries.

"Be not silent to me. "

Mere formalists [posers] may be content without answers to their prayers, but genuine *suppliants [earnest, praying believers] cannot; they are not satisfied with the results of prayer itself in calming the mind and subduing the will—they must go further and obtain actual replies from heaven, or they cannot rest; and when they long to receive replies at once, they dread even a little of God's silence. God's voice is often so terrible that it shakes the wilderness; but His silence is equally full of awe to an eager suppliant [praying one].

When God seems to close His ear we must not therefore close our mouths, but rather cry with more earnestness; for when our note grows shrill with eagerness and grief He will not long deny us a hearing. What a dreadful case should we be in if the Lord should become forever silent to our prayers.

"Lest, if Thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."

Deprived of the God who answers prayer, we would be in a more pitiable plight than the dead in the grave and would soon sink to the same level as the lost in hell.

We must have answers to prayer: ours is an urgent case of dire necessity; surely the Lord will speak peace to our agitated minds, for 

He never can find it in His heart to permit His own elect to perish.

* English (USA) spelling used

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*Charles Dumah Riley, Sr. (Daddy, Paw Paw) 1897 – 1987

Note: JM witnessed the last few hours of his *Daddy’s life on earth coming to an end and heard him say “Amen” over and over, affirming his own life’s conclusion and giving testimony of God’s goodness to him and his agreement and surrender to his earthly departure to be eternally present with the Lord Jesus. 

Amen... Amen… Amen!

My Daddy’s  prayer before every meal, he always offered with all gravity and reverence heard in the unique inflection of his deep Bass voice of prayer:

“Accept our thanks for these and all other blessings, we Humbly ask in Thy name, Amen.” 

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You can cast your cares on the Lord…

1. Call on Him. As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.. ...Psalm 55:16

2. Trust Him. Commit thy way unto the Lord;  and he shall bring it to pass ... Psalm 37:5

3. Come to Him, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I [He] will give you rest.. Matthew 11:28

4. Give Him the burden. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55:22]

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… and pray for souls to be saved and believers to be strengthened.

The Lord … is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9

Pray also that believers will be taught by the Holy Spirit and will rightly divide God’s Holy Word preserved by God, Himself.

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John 3:16 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten [divinely fathered] Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but may be having eternal life.

vis. Textus Receptus [The Received Greek Text] (From the overwhelming majority of extant New Testament Greek manuscripts)

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Profit-driven publishers have embraced such an economic windfall to sell a continual flow of “new and better” English edition of The Bible. They give too little attention to the fidelity and accuracy already settled [in heaven] in majority manuscripts of the Masoretic Hebrew and the  Greek Textus Receptus.

Psalm 119:89-90

ל Lamed

89 Forever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.

90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations:

thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. [abides]

God, Himself, providentially protects and preserves His Word. His Word is the God-breathed, self-authenticating, immutable [unchanging and unchangeable], eternal, inerrant, infallible, infinite and all-powerful Word, settled in heaven. He is not the author of confusion.

1 Corinthians 14:33 

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MISSION STATEMENT:

… Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:13

Our solemn aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus in everything. We must rely upon God entirely to achieve His purposes in us and through us.

Loving and worshiping God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength in Spirit and in truth is a labor of love and duty of every believer. Desire will grow stronger as we give ourselves to prayer, reading and meditating on God’s Word, gathering ourselves together to hear Gospel preaching, the singing of Psalms, sacred hymns and spiritual songs.

We purpose, with God’s help, to reach the lost, comfort, strengthen and encourage believers, and rightly divide God’s Word to proclaim the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ to every creature.

The Holy Bible is God’s eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable revealed and divinely preserved Word. It is His completed scripture of all revealed truth. He brings guidance and the knowledge of His will to us personally and to each local body of Christian believers through His Word. With God’s help and empowerment, we will read, study, meditate-on, trust-in and obey God’s Holy Bible and encourage others to do the same. We hold it to be the supreme authority and the preeminent and divinely established precedent [Stare Decisis Latin: to stand by that which is decided, the legal doctrine of precedence, literally "to stand by decided matters"] in all things.

Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature. And, to serve all, in love, especially those in the household of faith. We are compelled by this purpose to follow, and rightly apply and proclaim, God’s Holy Word, the Bible, as God’s divinely preserved truth; being the essential authority and goal of this ministry.

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The preaching, teaching, soul winning and writings of Charles Haddon Spurgeon are firmly fixed on the bedrock of Holy Scripture. His entire ministry was established, empowered and inspired solely by God’s Holy Word imparted to him by the Holy Spirit. His written works continue to bless, guide, challenge and benefit today’s readers through the publication of his authentic Gospel sermons and other inspired writing His ministry continues to thrive and flourish today through the Metropolitan Tabernacle a church begun in 1650 The present building was constructed in 1861 and was rebuilt after the destruction caused during the second world war. This church has been steadfast in it’s adherence to Reformed Baptist theology that Spurgeon said was just a nickname for Biblical Christianity. They have resisted and continue to reject worldly winds of false doctrine, including pragmatism and self-centered “Christian hedonism”. Biblical Christianity will always show itself as a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, never just a philosophy or religion.

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MISSION PURPOSE:

Our aim is to trust and obey the Lord Jesus Christ in everything. We rely wholly upon the Holy Spirit to impart God’s divine revelation to us from His Word, the Holy Bible. With God’s help, we will follow Jesus. We expect that lost souls will be saved, believers, comforted, strengthened and encouraged. To God be all the glory.

The Bible is God’s divinely inspired [God breathed] revealed, infinite, eternal, inerrant, infallible, immutable Word to all mankind. This divine, supernatural Word brings all revealed truth to the world. We purpose, therefore, to follow God’s Holy Word, Personal guidance and guidance to the local church comes by His Word.

Hence, we resolve, God helping us, to read, study, meditate-on, trust-in and obey God’s revealed and divinely preserved Word, holding it to be the supreme authority and the only divinely established Stare Decisis [Latin: to stand by that which is decided] in all things.

Therefore, the purpose of The John Mark Publishing Company is to publish and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every creature, ministering God’s love to all, especially those in the household of faith. The Bible is God’s everlasting, inspired, (God breathed) inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, divinely protected and preserved Word of love and salvation to the entire world. It is also the essential foundation of this ministry.

History: The inspired preaching, teaching and writing of Charles Haddon Spurgeon is all empowered by God’s revealed Word the Bible. His written publications continue to benefit readers through authentic Gospel preaching and sound biblical teaching. This ministry continues to flourish through The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London

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A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER:

Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21

Call on the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved … pray like this, won’t you?

“Lord Jesus, I’m a lost sinner and without You I am lost. I can’t save myself. Without your death on the cross to pay my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity in Hell. My nature and behavior has been sinful from birth. Please forgive me.

I realize that doing my best, being as good as possible, or being better than other people can never save me. . I’m sorry for each and every sin I have ever done and look to You to forgive them all.

I look to You, alone Lord Jesus to save me.

I call on You, Lord Jesus, right now to save me. You died on the cross for me, as God’s sacrifice for my sin.

Right now, just as I am, I call on You, Lord Jesus to save me, I trust You to be my Savior and Lord.

Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have forgiven me of all my sins. I want to follow You from now on.

You paid the price for all of my sins by dying on the cross.

Thank you, Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me still

Thank you, Heavenly Father, that You called me away from sin and death into the Life everlasting in Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus.

Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is alive and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave.

Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and Holy Spirit for Your comfort and guidance in all things.

With all my heart, thank you Lord Jesus for saving me. In your name, I pray, Amen.

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