GOD
WORKS IN AND THROUGH US
BREAD
5 “I am the vine; you are the
branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart
from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5
(NIV)
9 For I am the least of the apostles and do not even
deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace
to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them--yet not I,
but the grace of God that was with me.
1 Corinthians
15:9-10 (NIV)
BUTTER
“A primary qualification for
serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and
triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.
When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might,
when he boasts, ‘I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my
conquering sword shall get unto me the victory’, defeat is not far
distant. God will not go forth with that
man who marches in his own strength. He
who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly, for ‘it is not by might,
nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts’. They who go forth to fight, boasting of their
prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their
armour stained with disgrace. Those who
serve God must serve Him in His own way, and in His strength, or He will never
accept their service. That which man
doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away;
He will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by
grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love.
God will empty out all that thou hast before He will put His own into
thee; He will first clean out the granaries before He will fill them with the
finest of the wheat……Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being
filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.” C. H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
- · I can do nothing eternal apart from Jesus.
- · Jesus supplies me with the grace sufficient to meet each need He orchestrates in my life. His eye is ever on me. He is fully aware of the intensity of the heat. Just as He walked with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, He walks with me.
- · As I prayerfully and willingly empty myself (often moment by moment), He supplies all things needful.
