...Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends...
...Thru the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee Zephaniah 2:1-15...
Judah’s insensitivity to sin continues, as does God’s call for them to repent. Learn how the prophesies against the Philistines, Moab, and Ammon have been fulfilled and how that judgment will also extend to Ethiopia, Assyria, and nations of today.
...Thru the Bible - Minute with McGee Dr. J. Vernon McGee...
He Watches Over Us
Today God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, they’ve got their eye on you. And if you’re His child today, they’re watching you; they’re taking care of you. And you say, “Well, my, why do all these things happen to me?” Well I ask that question sometimes myself. I don’t have the answer for it. But I do know this: He permits it and He does it for a purpose, though He doesn’t explain it to us now, but He will by and by. That’s going to be one of the wonders of heaven, I think, is that you and I are going to get some answers that we don’t get down here. That’s going to be a great day, friends. (6:07)
References: Jude 1:1-3
...Daily Promises...
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (1 Corinthians 1:30)
"All we have we have from God as the fountain, and in and through Christ as the channel of conveyance. He is made of God to us all we need, or can desire. We are foolishness, ignorant and blind in the things of God, with all our boasted knowledge; and He is made wisdom to us. We are guilty, obnoxious to justice; and He is made righteousness, our great atonement and sacrifice. We are depraved and corrupt; and He is made sanctification, the spring of our spiritual life; from him, the head, it is communicated to all the members of his mystical body by his Holy Spirit. We are in bonds, and he is made redemption to us, our Saviour and deliverer."
Matthew Henry
...Don’t Make Prayer So Difficult...
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. — Matthew 6:7
Whether or not the words come out perfect in prayer isn’t being judged by God. Instead, He’s looking for your honesty and sincerity.
https://digginganotherwell.substack.com/p/dont-make-prayer-so-difficult
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. ”
Will Rogers
...Today's Wins...
1 James Howard Kunstler - Personal Note..."I’ve never talked to a Democrat who ever wanted to listen. They start to glitch out if you try.” Sasha Stone
https://www.kunstler.com/p/personal-note
2 Lawmakers Should Endure the Consequences of Their Policies...Those who wish to disarm us shouldn’t have armed guards
3 Why didn’t the Wall Street Journal warn Americans about the price of coffee during the Biden years? The WSJ has become a one-trick pony.
4 Why was Charlie Kirk cut down in the prime of life? Elon Musk puts it perfectly
https://moonbattery.com/killed-by-the-dark/
5 The Scenes Unfolding In America Prove We Are At A Turning Point—Choose This Day Whether You Will Rise To The Challenge
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C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (September 22nd)
"When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I." — Psalm 61:2
Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends like a vessel mastered by the storm. Discoveries of inward corruption will do this, if the Lord permits the great deep of our depravity to become troubled and cast up mire and dirt. Disappointments and heart-breaks will do this when billow after billow rolls over us, and we are like a broken shell hurled to and fro by the surf. Blessed be God, at such seasons we are not without an all-sufficient solace, our God is the harbour of weather-beaten sails, the hospice of forlorn pilgrims. Higher than we are is He, His mercy higher than our sins, His love higher than our thoughts. It is pitiful to see men putting their trust in something lower than themselves; but our confidence is fixed upon an exceeding high and glorious Lord. A Rock He is since He changes not, and a high Rock, because the tempests which overwhelm us roll far beneath at His feet; He is not disturbed by them, but rules them at His will. If we get under the shelter of this lofty Rock we may defy the hurricane; all is calm under the lee of that towering cliff. Alas! such is the confusion in which the troubled mind is often cast, that we need piloting to this divine shelter. Hence the prayer of the text. O Lord, our God, by Thy Holy Spirit, teach us the way of faith, lead us into Thy rest. The wind blows us out to sea, the helm answers not to our puny hand; Thou, Thou alone canst steer us over the bar between yon sunken rocks, safe into the fair haven. How dependent we are upon Thee-we need Thee to bring us to Thee. To be wisely directed and steered into safety and peace is Thy gift, and Thine alone. This night be pleased to deal well with Thy servants.
C. H. Spurgeon's Morning Reading (September 23rd)
"Accepted in the beloved." — Ephesians 1:6
What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term acceptance" in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects of divine love! But it is only "in the beloved." Some Christians seem to be accepted in their own experience, at least, that is their apprehension. When their spirit is lively, and their hopes bright, they think God accepts them, for they feel so high, so heavenly-minded, so drawn above the earth! But when their souls cleave to the dust, they are the victims of the fear that they are no longer accepted. If they could but see that all their high joys do not exalt them, and all their low despondencies do not really depress them in their Father's sight, but that they stand accepted in One who never alters, in One who is always the beloved of God, always perfect, always without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, how much happier they would be, and how much more they would honour the Saviour! Rejoice then, believer, in this: thou art accepted "in the beloved." Thou lookest within, and thou sayest, "There is nothing acceptable here!" But look at Christ, and see if there is not everything acceptable there. Thy sins trouble thee; but God has cast thy sins behind His back, and thou art accepted in the Righteous One. Thou hast to fight with corruption, and to wrestle with temptation, but thou art already accepted in Him who has overcome the powers of evil. The devil tempts thee; be of good cheer, he cannot destroy thee, for thou art accepted in Him who has broken Satan's head. Know by full assurance thy glorious standing. Even glorified souls are not more accepted than thou art. They are only accepted in heaven "in the beloved," and thou art even now accepted in Christ after the same manner.