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Recent Entries
Making Sense Of It AllJanuary 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
Suffering Saints
January 25, 2012
We get nervous thinking about it - suffering for the sake of Christ. How necessary is it, and what does it produce in us?
George Herbert on Prayer Meetings
January 21, 2012
Prayer Meetings are a thing of the past. Or so it seems. What has been lost? Maybe more than we realize.
When Fear Is Good
January 7, 2012
NO FEAR, we are told. And the point is well taken. But fear can be healthy, at least when it comes to eternal matters.
Happy, Happy, Happy
January 4, 2012
The declaration of independence holds up the pursuit of happiness as a right. Did you ever consider the reading the bible might be the one source that will never let you down?
The Twelve Signs Of Grace
December 22, 2011
Self-examination is not easy to do. The tendency is to let ourselves off easy. But examine we must, for eternity is at stake.
"Ouch!!"
July 22, 2011
Spiritual pride is hard to detect. Jonathan Edwards gives some tips. The process can be painful, but necessary.
Nothing Is Impossible With God
October 5, 2008
We have lost the eternal youthfulness of Christianity and have aged into calculating manhood. We seldom pray in earnest for the extraordinary, the limitless, the glorious. We seldom pray with real confidence for any good to the realization of which we cannot imagine a way. And yet we suppose ourselves to believe in an infinite Father. Anonymous, Edinburgh, 1910
The following story is drawn from the Amy Charmichael biography by Frank Houghton.
“Is it going to be too expensive?” Amy was asked. She hesitated to answer, but on the next morning she was directed to the word in Daily Light for June 4th, “The house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.”
This word, she says, “lifted the matter of cost to the heavenlies – where the air is clear.” By “magnifical”, she explains, she meant “perfect for its purpose of glorifying the God of love, so that men and women will be drawn to Him. He is also the God of beauty, and it follows that ugliness jars. He has no pleasure in it – nor in dirt.”
They calculated that a place after this pattern, simple, clean and beautiful, but with no extravagances anywhere, would cost 10,000 pounds, a sum so huge that Amy asked every member of the Fellowship to pray over it for some weeks. Then they met on August 15th for an unhurried time of prayer, and the entry of the log-book is significant: “Asked for, and received according to 1 John 5:14,15…..
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
…….received 10,000 pounds for the Parama Suha Salai (Place of heavenly healing) – to which all signed their names.
The first gift of 1000 pounds came in a remarkable way. The donor had been praying, and said that “the impression to do something besides pray deepened until the Heavenly Father just told me what He wanted, bit by bit, and that He wanted it without delay, and showed how, for at first it seemed impossible – I didn’t see how the sum could be got.
From the first whisper from him there was no doubt as to the sum, and that it was all to be sent at once. That was absolutely clear. But oh, the wonder of it all – that He should have let one of the least of His children so realize His presence and His wish and guidance, seems almost too much joy.”
Some months after this 1000 pounds had arrived, they heard of another piece to the puzzle. A nurse back in England was praying the same prayer as the one who gave the gift. In her prayer she told the Lord that “she wanted to send Amy 1000 pounds as a birthday present, but she could not do it. Would He send it for her?”
How marvelous is the mystery of prayer? And how wonderful!
The following story is drawn from the Amy Charmichael biography by Frank Houghton.
“Is it going to be too expensive?” Amy was asked. She hesitated to answer, but on the next morning she was directed to the word in Daily Light for June 4th, “The house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical.”
This word, she says, “lifted the matter of cost to the heavenlies – where the air is clear.” By “magnifical”, she explains, she meant “perfect for its purpose of glorifying the God of love, so that men and women will be drawn to Him. He is also the God of beauty, and it follows that ugliness jars. He has no pleasure in it – nor in dirt.”
They calculated that a place after this pattern, simple, clean and beautiful, but with no extravagances anywhere, would cost 10,000 pounds, a sum so huge that Amy asked every member of the Fellowship to pray over it for some weeks. Then they met on August 15th for an unhurried time of prayer, and the entry of the log-book is significant: “Asked for, and received according to 1 John 5:14,15…..
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.
…….received 10,000 pounds for the Parama Suha Salai (Place of heavenly healing) – to which all signed their names.
The first gift of 1000 pounds came in a remarkable way. The donor had been praying, and said that “the impression to do something besides pray deepened until the Heavenly Father just told me what He wanted, bit by bit, and that He wanted it without delay, and showed how, for at first it seemed impossible – I didn’t see how the sum could be got.
From the first whisper from him there was no doubt as to the sum, and that it was all to be sent at once. That was absolutely clear. But oh, the wonder of it all – that He should have let one of the least of His children so realize His presence and His wish and guidance, seems almost too much joy.”
Some months after this 1000 pounds had arrived, they heard of another piece to the puzzle. A nurse back in England was praying the same prayer as the one who gave the gift. In her prayer she told the Lord that “she wanted to send Amy 1000 pounds as a birthday present, but she could not do it. Would He send it for her?”
How marvelous is the mystery of prayer? And how wonderful!
