Years ago, God put it on my heart to start a boys’ home on Long Island. I truly sensed the Lord was behind this work. Yet, after just eighteen months, state officials imposed such stringent regulations on the operation of the home that we had no option but to close it down. We’d taken in four boys during the brief time we were open. After we closed down, I l […]
Sola Scriptura
The Bible is the sole written divine revelation and alone can bind the conscience of believers absolutely.
Sola Fide
Justification is by faith alone. The merit of Christ imputed to us by faith is the sole ground of our acceptance by God, by which our sins are remitted.
Solus Christus
Christ is the only mediator through whose work we are redeemed.
Sola Gratia
Our salvation rests solely on the work of God’s grace for us and in us.
“Perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1
“Having therefore these promises.” I claim the fulfilment of God’s promises, and rightly, but that is only the human side; the Divine side is that through the promises I recognize God’s claim on me. For instance, am I realizing that my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, or have I a habit of body that plainly will not bear the light of God on it? By sanctification the Son of God is formed in me, then I have to transform my [...]
Reading David Wilkerson’s Daily blog today, (and please do go and read it ) I was reminded of a post I wrote in September of 2008, most part of which is the title above.
It is one of those posts that is still very much a part of my life and I have learned with slow, awkward steps and many scraped knees from falling down, to wait upon the Lord and to listen for His voice a little better than I did at the time of writing it.
I came through a personal crisis last year, that [...]
My dear brother Mike over at Possessing the Treasure has posted a wonderful sermon by Rev. John P. Sartelle entitled Easy Preaching for Itchy Ears
In the light of that post, I wish to put down what Oswald Chambers has to say about Sin. I read this again yesterday morning and it left me feeling that I had again come face to face with the Lord in certain areas of my life.
God’s mercy is in bringing us to a point of being able to see things about us and our lives, in such a way [...]
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Part 1
Every now and again I get so excited and inspired by a life that was or is lived fully for the Lord. It is like a mini-explosion in me. It is so encouraging and causes me to lift up my heart in praise and fills my every pore to want to give the glory to God for it. It makes me long to sit down with the person and have a natter over a cup of tea with them. I want to get to know them [...]
I feel very overwhelmed in my heart tonight. I am full of worship and awe but It feels like I have lips that are lame. Sometimes there are just no words to express what one feels. This old Hymn does it much better than I can. I will add the audio shortly.
Before the throne of God above
I have a strong and perfect plea,
A great high Priest whose Name is Love,
Who ever lives and pleads for me.
My name is graven on His hands,
My name is written on His heart.
I know that while in heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence [...]
A couple of posts ago, I shared that Mike Ratliff had had a seizure. This is an update on his condition and also a link to a most wonderful posting that he has written.
Come to Me and I Will Give You Rest
My brethren, I do not know why God has brought back a very old illness to torment me at this time. I suffered several seizures in the late 1970’s, but have had none since then until a few weeks ago. I have had two over a period of 10 days. They were very severe and I am in a lot [...]
A river touches places of which its source knows nothing, and Jesus says if we have received of His fulness, however small the visible measure of our lives, out of us will flow the rivers that will bless to the uttermost parts of the earth. We have nothing to do with the outflow – “This is the work of God that ye believe. . . .” God rarely allows a soul to see how great a blessing he is.
A river is victoriously persistent, it overcomes [...]
August 22nd. My Utmost for His Highest – Oswald Chambers
“I INDEED… BUT HE”
I indeed baptize you with water . . but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.” Matthew 3:11
Have I ever come to a place in my experience where I can say – “I indeed – but He”? Until that moment does come, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Ghost means. I indeed am at an end, I cannot do a thing: but He begins just there – He does the things no one else can ever do. Am I prepared for [...]
What is Sanctification? How does it take place. What do I have to do to have this happen in my life? Know this: all who belong to the Lord are all going to go through it His way.
In the first writing, Oswald Chambers explains the Death side of Sanctification. Then He looks at the Life side.
Be so encouraged to reach all the more beyond your grasp for the Lord, as you learn to die to yourself and allow Him to form Christ in you. ( and I include myself fully here too )
A dear brother Mike, over at Possessing the Treasure, has written a post on prayer and we got into a short discussion about “unconscious consciousness” in the Lord. I remembered a wee while ago that I wrote a post about this back in September 2008 and I wanted to share it again now.
This morning, I share a page from Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest, then some thoughts of what I have learned so far about the subject of Praying without ceasing
(You can get My Utmost for His Highest free online from here: http://www.myutmost.org/)
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