Christianity

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And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD (Psalm 40:3).

Do you remember the pit?

No not the pit of Hell ... but ...The one you were in when Jesus Christ saved you?

You called and He answered.
You came to Him and found that He would not cast you out.
Your heart was overjoyed and you began to tell others about your Saviour.

There was a new song in your mouth, even praise to your God.
But something has happened to your song.

Like many others, your most fruitful time of witnessing was right after your conversion.

Your feet stood firm on the solid rock after having been lifted from the miry clay.
You felt secure for the first time in your life.

Your sins were gone and you knew it.

Heaven was ahead and you rejoiced in it.

All your old friends became prospects for witnessing. A number of them were saved as a result of your radiant testimony.

You thought seriously about becoming a missionary, a pastor, a youth worker, or some other full-time Christian servant.

Then you began to take the Christian life for granted.

You saw others content to just go to church and take in without giving out, you concluded that must be a normal Christianity. Somehow, you settled down into a rut. Not the pit…but a rut. Now you’re tired of living this way. You want to get back to the basics… reality… revival.

So ...What can you do?

Glance back at that pit again. Don’t dive in, but just remember what it was that Jesus Christ did to save you from that awful miry clay.

Jesus died for you…gave himself on the cross…shed His blood.

Now aren’t you glad you’re saved?

If you are, start singing!

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭

True fulfillment is found when we delight in the Lord.

Psalms 37:1-5

When people speak about their desires, they often cite Psalm 37:4 enthusiastically. We love the idea that the Father will give us what we desperately long for. But unfortunately, when we focus only on receiving good things, we miss the psalm’s context, which is a divine promise with human obligations.

God’s greatest interest is not to indulge us, but rather to give us more of Himself. Self-focused prayers overlook the first requirement for the promise’s fulfillment: delighting in the Lord. We are to take pleasure in time spent communing with and serving Him. As we read God’s Word and pray, we’ll experience His work in our life, and our faith in Him will deepen.

Over time, our growing trust means we’re beginning to learn God’s ways of thinking. He’ll remold our heart’s desires to match His (Ezekiel 36:25-27), but even so, what He provides may appear very different from what we request. Instead of giving us what we think we want, He bestows the perfect answer to our prayer.

God enjoys granting our requests, but His great joy is to hear us express a longing to know Him better. Receiving our heart’s desires is a byproduct of delighting in God and committing to His way. Our primary reward is a relationship with the loving God who offers to share Himself with humanity.

~~Charles Stanley

https://www.intouch.org/read/d....aily-devotions/the-d

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- ....a word as is good for edification, Ephesians 4:29

There was a young man who had spoken some very bad things about his neighbor that weren’t true. He was angry with him and so he spread this untruth about his neighbor all over the town. This hurt the neighbor very badly and in time he began to retreat away from everyone and everything until soon he was scarcely seen. The man who had been spreading the rumor began to feel badly about what he had done and he went to his minister to seek some advice. After listening to what the man had done the minister handed him a bag containing 100 feathers. He instructed the man to go home and pour these feathers out into the field near his home. Once he had done this the man was to return to see the minister. When he arrived the minister asked him if he had done exactly what he had asked him to do. After assuring the minister he had, the minister told the man to go back home and collect all the feathers back in the bag, and once he had done this then all would return to normal.

After many days the man returned to see the minister. The man was very depressed and very tired. He explained to the minister how hard and diligent he had tried to collect all the feathers but when he returned to where he had poured them out they were all gone for the wind had carried them away. The minister explained to the man that just as the feathers had been carried away by the wind never to be collected again, so were the words he had spoken about his neighbor. What a sobering truth. How often I have spoken words and even as they were pouring forth from my lips I was already wanting to retrieve them. Have you ever felt this way? Have you ever spoken words in anger in the pain of a moment, or even in fun, only to regret it later? Have you ever hurt someone by the words you’ve spoken? Words are a powerful tool that God has given to us. So often we forget the powerful affect our words have on the ears they fall upon.

Choose this day to speak words that are good only for edification, for building up. If you were to make a list of everyone whom you know will hear the sound of your voice today, i.e., your spouse, children, co-workers, neighbors etc.., would you also recognize the potential to strongly affect their lives for better or for worse? With the power of words and the audience God gives us to speak comes great responsibility. You can never retrieve the words you’ve already spoken, but you can choose wisely the words you will speak in the future.

May your mouth be filled with goodness, and may the hearer be blessed by being in your presence.

~~Pearls of Grace

https://www.crosscards.com/dev....otionals/pearls-of-g

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