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Tracy 8/9/2026 3:29:21 PM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON Likewise, you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:11 God never ceases to speak to us: but the noise of the world without, and the tumult of our passions within, bewilder us and prevent us from listening to Him. (Francois Fenelon) PRAY ABOUT IT: It's hard to know which is more distracting to our prayers --- the pull of the world with its distractions or the tug of our own passions to fulfill their every desire. But in the middle of it all is the voice of God speaking to us, quite loudly actually. Listen to Him today --- reckon yourself alive to God and dead to the world and to your flesh. The first and last stages of holy living are crowned with praying. (E.M. Bounds) | |||
Tracy 8/1/2026 8:04:39 AM MST |
STREAMS IN THE DESERT by L.B. COWMAN Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life. (Romans 6:13) One night I went to hear a sermon on consecration. Nothing special came to me from the message, but as the preacher knelt to pray, he said, "O Lord, You know we can trust the Man who died for us." That was my message. As I rose from my knees and walked down the street to catch the train, I deeply pondered all that consecration would mean to my life. I was afraid as I considered the personal cost, and suddenly, above the noise of the street traffic, came the message; "You can trust the Man who died for you." I boarded the train, and as I traveled toward home, I thought of the changes, sacrifices, and disappointments that consecration might mean in my life --- and I was still afraid. Upon arriving home, I went straight to my room, fell on my knees and saw my life pass before my eyes. I was a Christian, an officer in the church, and a Sunday school superintendent, but I had never yielded my life to God with a definite act of my will. Yet as I thought of my own "precious" plans that might be thwarted, my beloved hopes to be surrendered, and my chosen profession that I might have to abandon --- I was afraid. I completely failed to see the better things God had for me, so my soul was running from Him. And then for the last time, with a swift force of convicting power to my inmost heart, came that searching message: "My child, you can trust the Man who died for you. If you cannot trust Him, then whom can you trust?" Finally that settled it for me, for in a flash of light I realized that the Man who loved me enough to die for me could be absolutely trusted with the total concerns of the life He had saved. Dear friend, you can trust the Man who died for you. You can trust Him to thwart each plan that should be stopped and to complete each one that results in His greatest glory and your higher good. You can trust Him to lead you down the path that is the very best in this world for you. J.H.M. Just as I am, Thy love unknown, Has broken every barrier down, Now to be Thine, yea,Thine ALONE, O Lamb of God, I come! Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world. | |||
Tracy 7/25/2026 7:52:40 AM MST |
MAGNIFICENT PRAYER by NICK HARRISON "And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, 'These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: "I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. (Revelation 3:14-16) Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb. (Thomas Brooks) PRAY ABOUT IT: Many of us were taught to pray by rote as a child. As a result, sometimes we still rattle off our requests in an almost detached manner. If we would have the living God answer, our prayers must be living prayers. Today, speak living prayers to God, from a heart that's alive to Him. When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. (John Bunyan) | |||
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