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 Worthy Brief - September 30, 2024 Believe it or not! Luke 18:27 And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. True story! In 1940, a large and wonderful Christian family, the Rudolph's, announced the birth of their 20th baby! Though the baby was not expected to live, having been born prematurely and with polio, she defied all odds. She did live, but by the time she was four she had suffered polio, pneumonia and scarlet fever. This little girl was badly crippled with hardly any use of her left leg. While her brothers and sisters enjoyed running and playing outside, she was left confined to braces. "Will I ever be able to run and play like the other children?" she asked her parents. "Honey, you only have to believe," they responded. "If you believe, God will make it happen." And she did! Now and again, she would practice walking without her braces with the aid of her siblings. On her twelfth birthday, she surprised her par...

 Today's Daily Encounter Monday, September 30, 2024 The Weight of Guilt "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."1 For us as believers, false guilt can be an unbearable burden. The nagging feeling of shame can lead us to doubt the Lord's love and goodness, we may even begin to wonder if our salvation is real. However, God wants us to know relief from that burden. First, it's helpful to identify the root of our guilt. Next, we must affirm three truths: I'm special. Any reason we give to "prove" otherwise is a lie of Satan. Each of us is a unique creation. The Lord chose to endow us with specific faculties and abilities for His kingdom and glory (1 Corinthians 12:28, Ephesians 4:11-12). I am loved. Because the Heavenly Father wanted us to live with Him eternally, ...

 This Day's Verse 30th September 2024 You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea. Micah 7:19 The New International Version https://thisdaysthought.org/

 This Day's Thought 30th September 2024 The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us. Leo Tolstoy https://thisdaysthought.org/

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 True Vine Devotional for September 30 “ I Chose You, and Appointed You, That Ye Should Go and Bear Fruit, and That Your Fruit Should Abide ” - John 15:16 There are some fruits that will not keep. One sort of pears or apples must be used at once; another sort can be kept over till next year. So there is in Christian work some fruit that does not last. There may be much that pleases and edified, and yet there is no permanent impression made on the power of the world or the state of the Church. On the other hand, there is work that leaves its mark for generations or for eternity. In it the power of God makes itself lastingly felt. It is the fruit of which Paul speaks when he describes the two styles of ministry: “My preaching was not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstrations of the Spirit and of power; that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” The more of man with his wisdom and power, the less of stability; the more of God’s Spirit, ...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for September 30 "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange God with him" (Deuteronomy 32:11-12). Our Almighty Parent delights to conduct the tender nestlings of His care to the very edge of the precipice, and even to thrust them off into the steeps of air, that they may learn their possession of unrealized power of flight, to be forever a luxury; and if, in the attempt, they be exposed to unwonted peril, He is prepared to swoop beneath them, and to bear them upward on His mighty pinions. When God brings any of His children into a position of unparalleled difficulty, they may always count upon Him to deliver them. -- The Song of Victory "When God puts a burden upon you He puts His own arm underneath." There is a little plant, small and stunted, growing under the shade of a broad-spreading oa...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for September 30 Tozer in the Morning THE ETERNAL VERITY There is a great deal of discussion now taking place about the lack of spiritual power in our Christian churches. What about the New Testament patterns? Brethren, the apostolic method was to provide a foundation of good, sound biblical reasons for following the Savior, for our willingness to let the Spirit of God display the great Christian virtues in our lives. That is why we come in faith and rejoicing to the eternal verity of Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever!" This proclamation gives significance to every other section of teaching and exhortation in the letter to the Hebrews. In this verse is truth that is morally and spiritually dynamic if we will exercise the faith and the will to demonstrate it in our needy world. I think this fact, this truth that Jesus Christ wants to be known in His church as the ever-living, never-changing Lord of all,...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for September 30 “In the secret places of the stairs” (Song of Solomon 2:14) The dove is in the cleft of the rock—the riven side of our Lord. There is comfort and security there. It is also in the secret places of the stairs. It loves to build its nest in the high towers to which men mount the winding stairs for hundreds of feet above the ground. What a glorious vision is there obtained of the surrounding scenery. It is a picture of ascending life. To reach its highest altitudes we must find the secret places of the stairs. That is the only way to rise above the natural plane. Our life should be one of quiet mounting with occasional resting places; but we should be mounting higher step by step. Everybody does not find this way of secret ascent. It is for God’s chosen ones. The world may think you are going down. You may not have as much public work to do as formerly. “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” It is a secret, hidden life. We may be hardly ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for September 30 Morning “Put ye on the Lord Jesus.” Matthew 22:1-14 Matthew 22:2 , Matthew 22:3 It was their sovereign who invited them, and to refuse his invitation was an act of rebellion. Their presence was intended to render honour to the marriage of their prince, and their resolution to be absent was a studied insult both to the king and his son. God in infinite condescension has decreed to glorify his Son by bestowing his rich grace upon undeserving man, and when man wilfully rejects the favour, he is guilty of insulting the Lord of love. Will any of us live and die in this sin? Matthew 22:4 He was very patient, and condescended to reason with his erring subjects, hoping that perhaps their second thoughts might correct their hasty words. He even pleaded with them, though he might have sent forth his armies at once to destroy them. How true a representation is this of the great Father of mercy! Matthew 22:5 , Ma...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 30 “Needs to Open Our Mouths ” - Psalms 81:10 What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the LORD would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as the opening of the mouth; it should be a natural, unconstrained utterance. When a man is earnest he opens his mouth wide, and our text urges us to be fervent in our supplications. Yet it also means that we may make bold with God and ask many and large blessings at His hands, Read the whole verse, and see the argument: "I am Jehovah, thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Because the LORD has given us so much He invites us to ask for more, yea, to expect more. See how the little birds in their nests seem to be all mouth when the mother comes to feed them. Let it be the same with us. Let ...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 30th September 2024 9/30 Jeremiah 33:15-16 15 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: 'The LORD is our righteousness.' As with many of the prophecies in Scripture, the restoration of the nation had an immediate fulfillment which occurred at the end of the 70 years of exile, and a much later fulfillment in our day. The Jews have been brought back to Israel from all over the face of the earth. Our passage for today speaks of the millennial kingdom in which Jesus will reign on the earth on the throne of David in a time yet to come. Only when the Branch of David, Jesus Christ, reigns in Jerusalem will there truly be justice and righteousness. He will return at the time called "Jacob's Trouble," and will save th...

"This Generation" — Mark 13:30 (What Jesus Did!)

"Put Here for God's Purpose" — Esther 4:13-14 (Together in Christ)

Nehemiah 9:30 — Today's Verse for Monday, September 30, 2024

'God Watches Over and Rescues His People' — Psalm 33:18-21 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

Quotemeal for Monday, September 30, 2024

'Light that Exposes Sin' — Hebrews 12:29 (Praying with Paul)

'The Earth Trembles' (Passion for Praise)

'Then You Will Know!' — Ezekiel 37:14 NIV (God's Holy Fire)

Revelation 22:14 — Daily Wisdom for Monday, September 30, 2024

Jesus Is Lord!

Wisdom Before the World Began

Healing in the Atonement

 Philippians 1:9-10 (Complete Jewish Bible) And this is my prayer: that your love may more and more overflow in fullness of knowledge and depth of discernment, so that you will be able to determine what is best and thus be pure and without blame for the Day of the Messiah, https://biblegateway.com

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Plant — Tzemach - IFCJ

Hold Onto Faith - Holy Land Moments Devotional

 True Vine Devotional for September 29 “ Ye Did Not Choose Me, But I Chose You, and Appointed You That Ye Should Go and Bear Fruit ” - John 15:16 The branch does not choose the vine, or decide on which vine it will grow. The vine brings forth the branch, as and where it will. Even so Christ says: “Ye did not choose me, but I chose you.” But some will say is not just this the difference between the branch in the natural and in the spiritual world, that man has a will and a power of choosing, and that it is in virtue of his having decided to accept Christ, his having chosen Him as Lord, that he is now a branch? This is undoubtedly true. And yet it is only half a truth. The lesson of the Vine, and the teaching of our Lord, points to the other half, the deeper, the divine side of our being in Christ. If He had not chosen us, we had never chosen Him. Our choosing Him was the result of His choosing us, and taking hold of us. In the very nature of things, it is His prerogative as Vine to ...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for September 29 "I will give myself unto prayer" (Psalms 109:4). We are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in minutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much of his time in prayer? Did ever a man exhibit much of the spirit of prayer, who did not devote much time in his closet? Whitefield says, "Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground, in silent or vocal prayer." "Fall upon your knees and grow there," is the language of another, who knew whereof he affirmed. It has been said that no great work in literature or science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often, and long, alone with God. -- The Still Hour "’’Come, come,’’ He saith, ’’O soul oppres...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for September 29 Tozer in the Morning Inescapable Choices When the rich young ruler learned the cost of discipleship he went away sorrowing. He could not give up the sunny side of the brae. But thanks be to God, there are some in every age who refuse to go back. The Acts of the Apostles is the story of men and women who turned their faces into the stiff wind of persecution and loss and followed the Lamb whithersoever He went. They knew that the world hated Christ without a cause and hated them for His sake; but for the glory that was set before them they continued steadfastly on the way. Perhaps the whole thing can be reduced to a simple matter of faith or unbelief. Faith sees afar the triumph of Christ and is willing to endure any hardship to share in it. Unbelief is not sure of anything except that it hates the wind and loves the sunny side of the brae. Every man will have to decide for himself whether or not he can afford the terri...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for September 29 “Call not thou common” (Acts 10:15) “There is nothing common of itself” (Romans 14:14) We can bring Christ into common things as fully as into what we call religious services. Indeed, it is the highest and hardest application of Divine grace, to bring it down to the ordinary matters of life, and therefore God is far more honored in this than even in things that are more specially sacred. Therefore, in the twelfth chapter of Romans, which is the manual of practical consecration, just after the passage that speaks of ministering in sacred things, the apostle comes at once to the common, social and secular affairs into which we are to bring our consecration principles. We read: “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another; not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.” God wants the Levites scattered all over the cities of Israel. He wants your workshop, factory, kitchen...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for September 29 Morning “Forgive if ye have aught against any.” Mark 11:12-26 Mark 11:14 Fig trees put forth their fruit before their leaves: it was not yet time for figs, and yet this pretentious tree was covered with leaves. It promised far more than other trees, and then deceived those who came to it for fruit. It was meet that a blight should fall upon this type of hypocrisy, this symbol of boastful falsehood. Proud professors of religion, whose actions are not right in the sight of God, should tremble lest the like curse should light on them. Mark 11:15-18 Though purged so short a time before, the temple was foul again. Nothing is so hard to make clean and keep clean as a degenerate church. It should be the daily prayer of all who love the pure gospel that in these degenerate times the Lord Jesus would by his Holy Spirit, and the power of divine truth, cleanse out of our churches all false doctrines, Popish prac...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 29 “To Glorify Christ Jesus ” - John 16:14 The Holy Ghost Himself cannot better glorify the LORD Jesus than by showing to us Christ’s own things. Jesus is His own best commendation. There is no adorning Him except with his own gold. The Comforter shows us that which He has received of our LORD Jesus. We never see anything aright till He reveals it. He has a way of opening our minds and of opening the Scriptures, and by this double process He sets forth our LORD to us. There is much art in setting forth a matter, and that art belongs in the highest degree to the Spirit of truth. He shows us the things themselves. This is a great privilege, as those know who have enjoyed the hallowed vision. Let us seek the illumination of the Spirit; not to gratify our curiosity, nor even to bring us personal comfort, so much as to glorify the LORD Jesus. Oh, to have worthy ideas of Him! Groveling notions dishonor our pre...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 29th September 2024 9/29 Jeremiah 23:28-29 28 Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD. 29 Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? As the nation of Judah came to its final days, numerous false prophets prophesied the deceit of their own hearts. They would dream like we all do, but then make it into more than it was. God proclaimed through Jeremiah that He was against all those who falsely said, "declares the LORD" (Ezekiel 13:2-3). They were causing people to forget His name, not the name itself, but all it represented. God's name represents justice, righteousness, and holiness, but corruption and innocent blood had filled the land. In our verses today, God told the dreamer to go ahead and tell his dream, but the prophet who had God's Word should speak it faithfully. ...

"Right at the Door" — Mark 13:28-29 (What Jesus Did!)

"Supporting Those on Dangerous Missions" — Ephesians 6:19-20 (Together in Christ)

Exodus 9:29 — Today's Verse for Sunday, September 29, 2024

'The LORD Lifts Up His People' — Psalm 146:8-10 NCV (Spiritual Warfare)

'I Come to You, God' — Hebrews 12:22-29 (Praying with Paul)

'Pleasure in All He Has Made' (Passion for Praise)

'Breathe Life!' — Ezekiel 37:9-10 MESSAGE (God's Holy Fire)

Proverbs 26:11 — Daily Wisdom for Sunday, September 29, 2024

Keep Your Heart With All Diligence

The Rulers Losing Their Power

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Be Imitators of God

 Daily Christian Quote 29th September 2024 Eli E. Stanley Jones September 29, 2024 I am inwardly fashioned for faith, not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear, doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry, my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence, I breathe freely - these are my native air. A John Hopkins University doctor says, "We do not know why it is that worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but that is a fact." But I, who am simple of mind, think I know; We are inwardly constructed in nerve and tissue, brain cell and soul, for faith and not for fear. God made us that way. To live by worry is to live against reality. http://www.vaxxine.com/eves/jones.htm https://dailychristianquote.com

 John 3:20-21 (Complete Jewish Bible) For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed. But everyone who does what is true comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God.” https://biblegateway.com

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 True Vine Devotional for September 28 “ No Longer Do I Call You Servants; for the Servant Knoweth Not What His Lord Doeth: But I Have Called You Friends; for All Things That I Heard From My Father, I Have Made Known Unto ” - John 15:15 The highest proof of true friendship, and one great source of its blessedness, is the intimacy that holds nothing back, and admits the friend to share our inmost secrets. It is a blessed thing to be Christ’s servant; His redeemed ones delight to call themselves His slaves. Christ had often spoken of the disciples as His servants. In His great love our Lord now says: “No longer do I call you servants”; with the coming of the Holy Spirit a new era was to be inaugurated. “The servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth”—he has to obey without being consulted or admitted into the secret of all his master’s plans. “But, I have called you friends, for all things I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.” Christ’s friends share with Him in all the sec...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for September 28 "In me . . . peace" (John 16:33). There is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in the midst of those very conditions. Paganini, the great violinist, came out before his audience one day and made the discovery just as they ended their applause that there was something wrong with his violin. He looked at it a second and then saw that it was not his famous and valuable one. He felt paralyzed for a moment, then turned to his audience and told them there had been some mistake and he did not have his own violin. He stepped back behind the curtain thinking that it was still where he had left it, but discovered that some one had stolen his and left that old second-hand one in its place. He remained back of the curtain a moment, then came out before...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for September 28 Tozer in the Morning GLAMOR INSTEAD OF GLORY One ominous sign in the social structure that surrounds us is the false attitude toward anything that can be called "ordinary." There has grown up all around us an idea that the "commonplace" is old-fashioned and strictly for the birds! This existing mania for glamor and contempt for the ordinary are signs and portents in American society. Even religion has gone glamorous! In case you do not know what glamor is, I might explain that it is a compound of sex, paint, padding and artificial lights. It came to America by way of the honky-tonk and the movie lot; got accepted by the world first, and then strutted into the Church-vain, self-admiring and contemptuous. Instead of the Spirit of God in our midst, we now have the spirit of glamor, as artificial as painted death! Say what you will, it is a new kind of Christianity, with new concepts that face us brazenly ...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for September 28 “The trial of your faith being much more precious than gold” (1 Peter 1:7) Our trials are great opportunities. Too often we look on them as great obstacles. It would be a heaven of rest and an inspiration of unspeakable power if each of us would henceforth recognize every difficult situation as one of God’s chosen ways of proving to us His love and power, and if instead of calculating upon defeat we should begin to look around for the messages of His glorious manifestations. Then indeed would every cloud become a rainbow, and every mountain a path of ascension and a scene of transfiguration. If we will look upon the past, many of us will find that the very time our heavenly Father has chosen to do the kindest things for us and give us the richest blessings has been the time when we were strained and shut in on every side. God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very t...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for September 28 Morning “Who is this?” Matthew 21:1-16 Matthew 21:1-3 He had the hearts of all men under his control, and at once moved the owner to lend his ass. The colt came and its mother at its side, for Jesus would not cause even the meanest creature a needless pain by separating it from its young. Matthew 21:4 , Matthew 21:5 He came in state as a judge, but it was in fitting state, and such as was becoming in a true ruler in Israel; for he did not ride upon the horse which was the boast of Egypt, but on the humbler ass, which ancient lawgivers had been content with. Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David or, “Save now, we beseech thee” Matthew 21:10 Bishop Hall has well said: “The attending disciples need be at no loss for an answer. Which of the prophets has not put it into their mouths? Who is this? Ask Moses, and he shall tell you, the...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 28 “Work is Done; Rest in Him ” - Hebrews 4:9 God has provided a Sabbath, and some must enter into it. Those to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief; therefore, that Sabbath remains for the people of God. David sang of it; but he had to touch the minor key, for Israel refused the rest of God. Joshua could not give it, nor Canaan yield it: it remains for believers. Come, then, let us labor to enter into this rest. Let us quit the weary toil of sin and self. Let us cease from all confidence, even in those works of which it might be said, "They are very good." Have we any such? Still, let us cease from our own works, as God did from His. Now let us find solace in the finished work of our LORD Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more. Great peace is our portion in Christ Jesus. As to providential matters, the work of grace in the soul and the work of the LOR...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 28th September 2024 9/28 Jeremiah 18:6 6 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. The Lord sent Jeremiah to watch a potter at work. The vessel the potter was working on was spoiled, so he made another vessel with the clay. I've done a little work with a potter's wheel. To prepare the clay you have to beat and work it until you get all the air out of the clay. Then you throw it down hard on the wheel and begin to spin and shape it. Sometimes, as the sides of the vessel grow taller, it can either get too thin or out-of-round, and then it starts wobbling. The potter must start again by pounding that clay back into a lump. This is what Jeremiah observed. The LORD told Jeremiah that Israel was like that clay the potter was working. God intended for the nation to be a light to the world and set it at the crossroad...

 Christian Quote of the Day - Not of This World Dearly beloved, remember that you are not of this world; that Satan is not your captain; that your joy and Paradise are not here; that your companions are not the multitude of worldlings.  But ye are of another world.  Christ is your Captain; your joy is in heaven; your companions are the fathers, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, virgins, confessors, and dear saints of God, who follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. — John Bradford (c. 1510-1555) https://christianquote.com

"Gathering the Chosen" — Mark 13:27 (What Jesus Did!)

"Pray in the Spirit for This" — Ephesians 6:18 (Together in Christ)

Hebrews 9:28 — Today's Verse for Saturday, September 28, 2024

'God Hears Our Cries' — Psalm 28:6-7 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

Quotemeal for Saturday, September 28, 2024

'The Birthright' — Hebrews 12:16-17 (Praying with Paul)

'Vast and Wide, Large and Small' (Passion for Praise)

'The Spirit's Moment' — Luke 2:25-28 NIV (God's Holy Fire)

Colossians 3:11 — Daily Wisdom for Saturday, September 28, 2024

Overcome That Problem You Face

Strength, Love, Refuge

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 1 Corinthians 2:14 (Complete Jewish Bible) Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God — to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit. https://biblegateway.com

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 Worthy Brief - September 27, 2024 Be a wise steward! Luke 12:42-46  And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom his lord shall set over his houseservants, to give them their portion of food in season? 43  Blessed is that servant when his lord comes and finds him so doing. 44  Truly I say to you that he will set him over all his possessions. 45  But if that servant says in his heart, My lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat the male servants and women servants, and to eat and drink and to be drunk, 46  the lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect, and at an hour when he does not know. And he will cut him apart, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. The concept of ownership often influences how one can view the world, but if we recognize the truth that our time here is short and we can’t take anything with us, it will change our perspective. We are simply stewards of what has been entru...

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 Today's Daily Encounter Friday, September 27, 2024 Saved by Grace "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast."1 Many people believe that by accumulating good works they can be right with God. However, when it comes to sin, death is the only payment that can satisfy divine justice (Romans 6:23). Since we all sin, we face eternity apart from God. But grace, the expression of divine love and goodness toward those who do not deserve it, made Christ the solution. According to John 6:29, the only "work" we have to do is believe. The Savior's death gave us: New life. Our spirit comes alive in Christ the moment we recognize that we are sinners and believe that His death paid our sin debt in full. Freedom. At the moment of salvation, sin's power over us is broken and we are freed from its dominion. Now we can exercise our newfound freedom and follow the ...

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 True Vine Devotional for September 27 “ Ye Are My Friends, if Ye Do the Things Which I Command You ” - John 15:14 Our Lord has said what He gave as proof of His friendship: He gave His life for us. He now tells us what our part is to be—to do the things which He commands. He gave His life to secure a place for His love in our hearts to rule us; the response His love calls us to, and empowers us for, is that we do what He commands us. As we know the dying love, we shall joyfully obey its commands. As we obey the commands, we shall know the love more fully. Christ had already said: “If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.” He counts it needful to repeat the truth again: the one proof of our faith in His love, the one way to abide in it, the one mark of being true branches is—to do the things which He commands us. He began with absolute surrender of His life for us. He can ask nothing less from us. This alone is a life in His friendship. This truth, of the imperative n...

 Streams in the Desert Devotional for September 27 "I have found an atonement" (Job 33:24, margin). Divine healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing life of Christ in our living members. It is as real as His risen and glorified body. It is as reasonable as the fact that He was raised from the dead and is a living Man with a true body and a rational soul today at God’s right hand. That living Christ belongs to us in all His attributes and powers. We are members of His body, His flesh and His bones, and if we can only believe and receive it, we may live upon the very life of the Son of God. Lord, help me to know "the Lord for the body and the body for the Lord.’’ -- A. B. Simpson "The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty." (Zephaniah 3:17). This was the text that first flashed the truth of Divine healing into m...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for September 27 Tozer in the Morning Serious Repentance and Restitution . . . Well, here are some suggestions which anyone can follow and which, I am convinced, will result in a wonderfully improved Christian life. . . . 3. Put yourself in the way of the blessing. It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God's help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known and met. There are plainly marked paths which lead straight to the green pastures; let us walk in them. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. 4. Do a thorough job of repenting. Do not hurry to get it over with. Hasty repentance means shallow spiritual experience and lack of certainty in the whole life. Let godly sorrow do her healing work. Until we allow the consciousness of sin to wound us, we will never develop a fear of evil. It is our wretched...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for September 27 “The glorious liberty of the children of God” (Romans 8:21) Are you above self and self-pleasing in every way? Have you got above circumstances so that you are not influenced by them? Are you above sickness and the evil forces around that would drag down your physical life into the quicksands? These forces are all around, and if yielded to would quickly swamp us. God does not destroy sickness, or its power to hurt, but He lifts us above it. Are you above your feelings, moods, emotions and states? Can you sail immovable as the stars through all sorts of weather? A harp will give out sweet music or discordant sounds as different fingers touch the strings. If the devil’s hand is on your harp strings what hideous sounds it will give. Let the fingers of the Lord sweep it, and it will breathe out celestial music. Are you lifted above people, so that you are not bound by or to any one except in the dear Lord, and are you standing free i...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional for September 27 Morning “Occupy till I come.” Luke 19:11-27 Luke 19:11 He would turn their thoughts away from the thrones and glories, which they fondly expected, to the service and duty which really lay before them. Luke 19:12 , Luke 19:13 Use my money in trade till I return. Luke 19:16 Great grace is modest. He did not say I have gained ten pounds, but thy pound hath gained it. Good men say as Paul did, “I laboured, yet not I, but the grace of God which was in me.” Luke 19:19 Those who are alike faithful may not be all equally successful; there is a sovereignty in the results of service as well as in the gifts of grace. Yet all faithful servants are acceptable to their Master. Luke 19:22 , Luke 19:23 with usury or interest. He met him on his own ground, and condemned him out of his own mouth. The character of the master is no rule for the servant, he was bound to do his lord’s will, and if he knew that lord to be s...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 27 “The Divine Light in Darkness ” - Psalms 18:28 It may be that my soul sits in darkness; and if this be of a spiritual kind, no human power can bring me light. Blessed be God! He can enlighten my darkness and at once light my candle. Even though I may be surrounded by a "darkness which might be felt," yet He can break the gloom and immediately make it bright around me. The mercy is that if He lights the candle none can blow it out, neither will it go out for lack of substance, nor burn out of itself through the lapse of hours. The lights which the LORD kindled in the beginning are shining still. The LORD’s lamps may need trimming, but He does not put them out. Let me, then, listen to the nightingale sing in the dark. Expectation shall furnish me with music, and hope shall pitch the tune. Soon I shall rejoice in a candle of God’s lighting. I am dull and dreary just now. Perhaps it is the weath...

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 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 27th September 2024 9/27 Jeremiah 7:23-24 23 But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.' 24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. God is searching for those who will worship Him in Spirit and in truth (John 4:23). We have His voice. When Jeremiah wrote, it was God's voice through His prophets that applied the Word of God to a specific people at a specific time. Since Pentecost, we have the voice of the Holy Spirit, that still small voice in our spirit. He does a similar work to what He did through the prophets. He reminds us of the Word and applies it to our lives (John 14:26; 16:13-14). We also have the written commands of God. The commands are our guidelines. They help us discern whether or not wha...