Exerting A Holy Violence for Heaven


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I’ve been reading a book called Heaven Taken By Storm by Thomas Watson. Actually, I’ve been listening to it since I am more of an audiobook fan lately then I am reading fan. I still like reading, but it’s been difficult to find the time to read all the books I would like to read […]

05/30/2012

Experiencing God


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I enjoyed this excerpt or I should say page since it is rather long, from the book, “Love Slaves” by Samuel Brengle. It was something I clipped after reading it and pasted to my journal notes because it reminds me of my own personal revelations of Christ and how I continually return to these special […]

05/02/2012

The Gift of Gifts


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O SOURCE OF ALL GOOD, What shall I render to Thee for the gift of gifts? Thine own dear Son, begotten, not created, My Redeemer, Proxy, Surety, Substitute, His self-emptying incomprehensible, His infinity of love beyond the heart’s grasp. Herein is wonder of wonders: He came below to raise me above, He was born like […]

12/14/2011

Morning Hymn


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The day does now dark night dispel; Dear Christians, wake and rouse you well, Give glory to God our Lord. Once more the daylight shines abroad, O brethren, let us praise the Lord, Whose grace and mercy thus have kept The nightly watch while we have slept. To Him let us together pray With all […]

09/28/2011

How to Used By God


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God’s calling, God’s will is that we be sanctified, holy, pure. Robert Murry McCain spoke at the ordination of the young Dan Edwards in the 1860’s. He said something like this. “Mr. Edwards, Do not forget the inner man, the heart. The calvery officer knows that his life depends upon his saber so he keeps […]

09/06/2011

Terminal Cases Only


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The things that are impossible with men are possible with God”  – Luke 18:27 We all have lost loved ones that seem to be hopeless situations and it is easy to lose heart and become discouraged.  Sometimes it seems salvation is for everyone but them, because there are too many obstacles blocking their sight and […]

07/01/2011

Others May, You Cannot – G. D. Watson


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If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:24-25) This came from a tract written by G.D. Watson (1845-1924) called Others May, […]

05/19/2011

Come To Me


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By George MacDonald Come to me, come to me, O my God; Come to me everywhere! Let the trees mean thee, and the grassy sod, And the water and the air! For thou art so far that I often doubt, As on every side I stare, Searching within, and looking without, If thou canst be […]

05/15/2011

Pursuing God


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As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. -Psa. 42:1 One of my favorite devotionals of late is called Voices from the Past Edited by Richard Rushing. It is a compilation of puritan devotional readings for every day of the year. Every morning I wake up, I look […]

05/11/2011

The Angelic Watchmen of the Lord


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The following is a wonderful story that I read in Mrs. Charles E Cowman’s devotional Springs in the Valley back on February 10th and noted the page. It is a  very encouraging story regarding the power of prayer and angelic protection as told by a Moravian missionary. An American missionary and his wife bravely went […]

04/08/2011