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WATCHES
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1 I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help
come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let
your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he who
watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord watches over you-- the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will
not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will keep you from all harm-- he
will watch over your life; 8 the Lord will watch over your coming and
going both now and forevermore. Psalms 121:1-8
(NIV)
6 For
the Lord watches over the way of
the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Psalms 1:6 (NIV)
13 From
heaven the Lord looks down and
sees all mankind; 14 from
his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth-- 15 he who forms the hearts of
all, who considers everything they do. Psalms
33:13-15 (NIV)
1 Unless
the Lord builds the house, its
builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord
watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. 2 In vain you rise early and stay
up late, toiling for food to eat-- for he grants sleep to those he loves. Psalms 127:1-2 (NIV)
9 For
the eyes of the Lord range
throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to
him. 2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)
22 But
God drags away the mighty by his power; though they become established, they
have no assurance of life. 23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but his
eyes are on their ways. Job 24:22-23
(NIV)
17 “My
eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin
concealed from my eyes. 18 I will
repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled
my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance
with their detestable idols.” Jeremiah
16:17-18 (NIV)
13 Nothing
in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid
bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4:13 (NIV)
26 “So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that
will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. 27 What I
tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear,
proclaim from the roofs. 28 Do not be afraid of those who
kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can
destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Are
not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground
apart from the will of your Father. 30 And
even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So
don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. 32 Whoever
acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in
heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before
my Father in heaven.” Matthew
10:26-33 (NIV)
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“Let
this be a warning to me, O Lord. Set
thou a guard before my eyes, ears, and other faculties, lest the world again
should enter through these avenues of the heart: if the spark be not speedily extinguished, it
will soon break out into a flame: thus
sin is of a progressive nature, and its venom spreads very quickly and very
wide, unless it be stopped and opposed in time.
Watch, therefore, over this unsteady heart of mine, O thou Keeper of
Israel; that as soon as it begins to wander from thee, I may be alarmed to flee
from sin as from a serpent. Give me
grace to look upon every hour as my last; so that being ever wisely upon my
guard I may meet thee with joy when my time is run out, whenever it shall
please thee to call me hence.” K. H.
Von Bogatzky
“Strive to turn
your heart from loving things that are seen, and to set it upon things that are
not seen…How much better is a lowly peasant who serves God than a proud
philosopher who watches the stars and neglects knowing himself…We must not
trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and
patiently try the matter, whether it be of God.
The more humble a man is in himself, and the more obedient toward God,
the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace.” Thomas a Kempis
“We should always
keep Christ before our eyes. The devil
continually tempts us to abandon Christ and seek the Father, saying to
ourselves, ‘This or that will please him’.
Meanwhile we ignore Christ—the One the Father sent—so that we might
listen to Him alone. We respond as the
Pharisees did and reject Christ. We
wonder, ‘Where is the Father?’ That is
the question that world asks. This is
the greatest temptation to your faith.
You must devote yourself to the Word of Christ and train yourself to
hold on to it so that you never lose sight Jesus.” Martin
Luther, Faith Alone.
“My
truth is real and unchanging, regardless of how you feel in any given moment or
what you see with your eyes. Much of
life is a decision about how and what to see – the reality I tell you about or
the ‘reality’ you perceive. My people,
those with My heart, learn to insist on seeing from My perspective rather than
theirs. That pleases Me more than you
know. I show My favor to those who look
past apparent contradictions to see Me.
When you choose to tell yourself the truth, I choose to fill your
decision with My Presence.” Chris
Tiegreen
“It's a promise that whatever you might be experiencing today is
just one chapter in a story that He is writing, and that story isn't over
yet....extract the precious from the worthless (Jeremiah 15)..Life has far more sticky
situations than miraculous moments. As you encounter challenges, difficulties,
and setbacks, train your eyes to ‘extract
the precious.’ Train your ears to hear the promise. And train your heart to
pursue relentless hope.” Beth
Guckenberger
“Let
us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to
please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God’s work, done in God’s
way, will never lack God’s supplies.”
Hudson Taylor
“But
the battle is the Lord’s, and He will conquer.
We may fail – do fail continually – but He never fails.” Hudson Taylor
“One thing that Jesus brings to our attention is the importance of
living in this world with our eyes fixed upon what is above. A follower of the
Lord experiences eternal realities while he lives in a temporal world--he sees
things that others do not see; he hears things that others do not hear; he know
things that others do not know. A follower of the Lord walks with his
feet upon the ground, while his eyes are fixed upon heaven. He knows that all
the things around him are passing away, and that all that is before him will
last forever.” Roy
Lessin
“O the deep, deep love of Jesus.
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me! Underneath me, all around me, is the current
of Thy love, leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His
praise from shore to shore! How He
loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, never more! How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to
call them all His own; how for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the
throne! O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
love of every love the best! ‘Tis an
ocean full of blessing, ‘tis a haven giving rest! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ‘tis a heav’n
of heav’ns to me; and it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!” Samuel Trevor Francis
HEART SAVOR
- · If His eye is on the sparrow, I know He watches me.
- · I fail but God never fails.
- · God will not let my foot slip – He never slumbers, He never sleeps.
