DEVOTION for March 21st Written and calendared by Charles Haddon. Spurgeon.
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PRAYER 13, Part 2: THE WINGS OF PRAYER.
ANECDOTE 230: Genuine Piety.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOKMarch 21: AVOID THAT SLIP
-Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble —Proverbs 3:23
MORNING: "Ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone. "
—John 16:32
EVENING: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"
—Job 38:31
A SINNER'S PRAYER
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PRAYER 13, Part 2 of 11
THE WINGS OF PRAYER.
Thou hast [have] supplied our necessities as soon as ever we have cried unto Thee; yea, [oh yes] we have found it true:
“Before they call I will answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear.”
We do bless Thee, Lord, for instituting the blessed ordinance of prayer. What could we do without it, and we take great shame to ourselves that we should use it so little.
We pray that we may be men of prayer, taken up with it, that it may take us up and bear us as on its wings towards heaven. And now at this hour wilt [will] Thou hear the voice of our supplication [request]. First, we ask at Thy hands, great Father, for complete forgiveness; all our trespasses and shortcomings.
We hope we can say with truthfulness that we do from our heart forgive all those who have in any way trespassed against us. There lies not in our heart, we hope, a thought of enmity [unkindness] towards any man.
However [No matter how much] we have been slandered or wronged, we would, with our inmost heart, forgive and forget it all.
[In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ] Amen.
(Attached: PRAYER 13.doc)
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ANECDOTE 230: Genuine Piety.
When a great Grecian artist was fashioning an image for the temple he was diligently carving the back part of the goddess, and one said to him,
“You need not finish that part of the statue, because it is to be built into the wall.” [it won’t be seen]
He replied, “The gods can see in the wall.”
He had a right idea of what is due to God.
That part of my religion which no man can see should be as perfect as if it were to be observed by all. The day shall declare it. When Christ shall come everything shall be made known, and published before the universe.
Therefore, see to it that it be fit to be thus made known.
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FAITH’S CHECKBOOK MARCH 21 AVOID THAT SLIP C.H. Spurgeon 1834—1892
-Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble —Proverbs 3:23
—Entonces andarás por tu camino confiadamente, Y tu pie no tropezará—Proverbios 3:23
That is to say, if we follow the ways of wisdom and holiness, we shall be preserved in them. He who travels by daylight along the highway is under some protection. There is a way for every man, namely, his own proper calling in life, and if we devoutly walk therein in the fear of God, He will preserve us from evil.
We may not travel luxuriously, but we shall walk safely. We may not be able to run like young men, but we shall be able to walk like good men.
Our greatest danger lies in ourselves: our feeble foot is so sadly apt [likely] to stumble. Let us ask for more moral strength [so] that our tendency to slip [stumble, or otherwise lose our footing] may be overcome.
Some stumble because they do not see the stone in the way: divine grace enables us to perceive sin, and so to avoid it. Let us plead this promise, and trust in Him who upholds His chosen.
Alas! [Oh me!] our worst peril is our own carelessness, but against this the Lord Jesus has put us on our guard, saying,
-Watch and pray-.
Oh for grace to walk this day without a single stumble! It is not enough that we do not actually fall; our cry [call to Him] should be that we may not make the smallest slip with our feet, but may at the last adore Him
-who is able to keep us from stumbling-.
Prayer: Thank you, Lord, that we [the redeemed] shall walk in our way safely because we keep sound wisdom and discretion, and our foot shall not stumble. I pray this blessing in your holy name Lord Jesus, Amen.
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MORNING March 21
"Ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone. " —John 16:32
—Que seréis esparcidos cada uno por su parte, y me dejaréis solo—Juan 16:32
FEW had fellowship with the sorrows of Gethsemane [The garden where Jesus prayed before He was crucified] . The majority of the disciples were not sufficiently advanced in grace to be admitted to behold the mysteries of "the agony."
Occupied with the passover feast at their own houses, they represent the many who
live on the letter, but are mere babes as to the spirit of the gospel.
To twelve, nay, to eleven only was the privilege given to enter Gethsemane and see
"this great sight."
Out of the eleven, eight were left at a distance; they had fellowship, but not of that intimate sort to which men greatly beloved are admitted. Only three highly favored ones could approach the veil of our Lord's mysterious sorrow: within that veil even these must not intrude. A stone's-cast distance must be left between.
He must tread the wine-press alone, and of people there must be none with him. Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], represent the few eminent, experienced saints, who may be written down as "Fathers;" these having done business on great waters, can in some degree measure the huge Atlantic waves of their Redeemer's passion.
For the good of others and to strengthen them for the future, some selected spirits are given special and tremendous conflict—to enter the inner circle and hear the pleadings of the suffering High Priest. They have fellowship with him in his sufferings, and are made conformable unto his death. Yet even these cannot penetrate the secret places of the Savior's woe.
"Thine unknown sufferings" is the remarkable expression of the Greek liturgy: there was an inner chamber in our Master's grief, shut out from human knowledge and fellowship. There Jesus is
"left alone. "
Here Jesus was more than ever an "Unspeakable gift"!
Is not [Composer] Isaac Watts right when he sings
And all the unknown joys he gives,
Were bought with agonies unknown.
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EVENING March 21
"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of constellations, Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?"—Job 38:31
¿Podrás tú impedir las delicias de las Pléyades, O desatarás las ligaduras del Orión? —Job 38:31
IF inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny [weak] we are. We cannot move the least of all the twinkling stars, or quench so much as one of the [sun] beams of the morning. We speak of power, but the heavens laugh us to scorn [as ridiculous].
When the Pleiades [seven daughters in the constellation] shine forth in spring with vernal [warm] joy we cannot restrain their influences, and when [the constellation] Orion reigns aloft [above], and the year is bound in winter's fetters [bondage], we cannot relax the icy bands.
The seasons revolve according to the divine [heavenly] appointment ,
and the whole race of men cannot effect a change therein.
Lord, what is man [that Thou art mindful of him]?
In the spiritual, as in the natural world, man's power is limited on all hands. When the Holy Spirit sheds abroad [makes known] His delights in the soul, none can disturb; all the cunning and malice [cleverness and intentional harm] of men are ineffectual to restrain the genial [kind] quickening power of the Comforter [Holy Ghost].
When he deigns [desires] to visit a church and revive it, the most inveterate enemies cannot resist the good work; they may ridicule it, but they can no more restrain it than they can push back the spring when the *Pleiades rule the hour.
God wills it, and so it must be.
On the other hand, if the Lord in sovereignty, or in justice, bind up a man so that he is in soul bondage, who can give him liberty? He alone can remove the winter of spiritual death from an individual or a people.
He looses the bands of *Orion, and none but He. What a blessing is it that He can do it. 0 that He would perform the wonder tonight.
Lord, end my winter, and let my spring begin.
I cannot with all my longings raise my soul out of her death and dullness, but
all things are possible with You.
I need celestial [heavenly] influences, the clear shining, of Your love, the [sun] beams of Your grace, the light of Your countenance, these are the *Pleiades to me.
I suffer much from sin and temptation, these are my wintry signs, my terrible *Orion.
Lord, work wonders in me, and for me.
[In Jesus name] Amen.
* Constellations: Orion (the Hunter) seen in Winter and Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) seen in Spring.
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A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER: [One and all]
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 hopeless. I can’t save myself. Without your death on the cross for my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity condemned to Hell. I have been self-centered 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 guilty and sorry for each and every sin I have done and look to You to forgive me of 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, because of my sin and You say, “It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21.
Right now, just as I am, I call on You, Lord Jesus to save me, I trust You, to be my Lord and Savior from now on.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have forgiven me of all my sins. I ask You to abide in me and give me the desire to always follow You.
You paid the price for all of my sins by dying on the cross. Even the sins of the whole world.
Thank you, Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me even before I was born and that You still love me now. I love You too.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, that You have called me away from sin and death into the Life everlasting in Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [Holy Ghost, Comforter, Spirit of Truth]
Thank You for saving me heavenly Father. With all my heart, thank you Father for saving me in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Allow us to share the joy of your new birth with heaven. Won’t you? Heaven rejoices over each redeemed sinner. Luke 15:7
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89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
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In 1870, The Anglican Church of England passed a resolution to revise the English Bible. The New Testament revision committee which finally consisted of 25 scholars (though only about 16 eventually attended the meetings) which included Westcott and Hort. The committee worked for ten years in the Jerusalem chamber, and these two scholars swept the Revision Committee along with them after work commenced. In fact, the “Cambridge trio” (Westcott, Hort and Lightfoot) colluded with others to dominate the meetings with their views of the text and to defeat any who opposed them. Their *letters reveal this conspiracy:
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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled” (Lev 10:1–6).
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-Psalm 119:89 Authorized (King James) Version
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