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Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee 2 Peter 3:8-18
“You can’t keep God from loving you, but you can put up an umbrella of indifference and sin and rebellion. Then you won’t experience it, but He still loves you.” That’s what our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, has to say about the great news that there is nothing that can separate you from the love of God. Hear more in this conclusion to our study of Second Peter.
Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee
His Will Is For Us To Love Him
Believers are to do the will of God, and the will of God, primarily, first of all, is to love Him. Oh, how important that this is here. And this is something that identifies the believer. A believer is one that delights in the will of God, and a believer ought to be able to say, because the true light—“the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.” Day by day, moment by moment, I ought to be able to say I’m getting to know the Lord better. I’m understanding His will more perfectly. And that ought to be the experience of every child of God today. That day after day you ought to be growing.
References: 1 John 2:3-8
https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/thru-the-bible-minute-with-mcgee/
Daily Promises
For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] unto death. (Psalm 48:14)
When the storms of life assail us and we feel as though lost at sea, take heart, O Christian, take heart! Our Lord will never fail to lead us in the paths of righteousness, conforming us daily to the pure, holy, and loving image of His very Son, Christ our saviour!
Demands Of God
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. — Matthew 16:1
When we consider who God is and all that He does, who are we to issue demands of God?
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/demands-of-god
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
Edward Sapir
Today's Wins
1 James Howard Kunstler - Swamp Fever...“Don’t misunderstand me. I want Biden to get better and live many more years, so he can watch his family go broke from running out of influence to sell.” Oilfield Rando
https://www.kunstler.com/p/swamp-fever-0b0
2 Caitlin Johnstone - Prostate Cancer Has A Right To Exist. Biden's Tumor Has A Right To Defend Itself.
https://substack.com/@caitlinjohnstone/p-163889320
3 John Roberts Is The Judicial Supremacist The Founders Warned Us About
4 “Start Up the Planes!”: Supreme Court Green-Lights President Trump’s Deportation of Hundreds of Thousands
5 Oklahoma public schools to teach about the 2020 election ‘discrepancies’ using real data, and leftists are losing it
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C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (May 19th)
"And he requested for himself that he might die." — 1 Kings 19:4
It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be carried to heaven in a chariot of fire, and be translated, that he should not see death-should thus pray, "Let me die, I am no better than my fathers." We have here a memorable proof that God does not always answer prayer in kind, though He always does in effect. He gave Elias something better than that which he asked for, and thus really heard and answered him. Strange was it that the lion-hearted Elijah should be so depressed by Jezebel's threat as to ask to die, and blessedly kind was it on the part of our heavenly Father that He did not take His desponding servant at his word. There is a limit to the doctrine of the prayer of faith. We are not to expect that God will give us everything we choose to ask for. We know that we sometimes ask, and do not receive, because we ask amiss. If we ask for that which is not promised-if we run counter to the spirit which the Lord would have us cultivate-if we ask contrary to His will, or to the decrees of His providence-if we ask merely for the gratification of our own ease, and without an eye to His glory, we must not expect that we shall receive. Yet, when we ask in faith, nothing doubting, if we receive not the precise thing asked for, we shall receive an equivalent, and more than an equivalent, for it. As one remarks, "If the Lord does not pay in silver, He will in gold; and if He does not pay in gold, He will in diamonds." If He does not give you precisely what you ask for, He will give you that which is tantamount to it, and that which you will greatly rejoice to receive in lieu thereof. Be then, dear reader, much in prayer, and make this evening a season of earnest intercession, but take heed what you ask.