Full Of Compassion And Mercy Psalms 103:8-14 James 5:11 Exodus 34:6 Numbers 14:17-19 Psalms 86:15 Micah 7:18-19 Isaiah 26:11-12 Isaiah 54:10 1 Samuel 2:2-3 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 07.29.19

FULL OF COMPASSION AND MERCY

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⁸ The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.  ⁹ He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; ¹⁰ he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; ¹² as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him; ¹⁴ for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.  Psalm 103:8-14 (NIV)

¹¹ As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.  James 5:11 (NIV)

⁶ And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.”  Exodus 34:6 (NIV)

^{17 “}Now may the Lord’s strength be displayed, just as you have declared: ^{18 ‘}The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.’ ¹⁹ In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.”  Numbers 14:17-19 (NIV)

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.  Psalm 86:15 (NIV)

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. ¹⁹ 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 7:18-19 (NIV)

¹¹ O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them. ¹² LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.  Isaiah 26:11-12 (NIV)

¹⁰ Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.  Isaiah 54:10 (NIV)

² “There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.  ³ Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.” 1 Samuel 2:2-3 (NIV)

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, ⁴ who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. ⁵ For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (NIV)

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“I love Him because He first loved me.  His goodness and mercy and compassion to me are new every day.  And my assurance is lodged in these aspects of His character.  My trust is in His love for me as His own.  My serenity has as its basis an implicit, unshakable reliance on His ability to do the right thing, the best thing in any given situation.  This to me is the supreme portrait of my Shepherd.  Continually there flows out to me His goodness and His mercy, which even though I do not deserve them, come unremittingly from their source of supply – His own great heart of love.”   Phillip Keller

“Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love Thou art.”  Charles Wesley

“To added affliction He addeth His mercy, to multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.”  Annie Johnson Flint

“It is His love for man, His compassion for the human race, that prompts God to hate sin with such a vengeance.  He gave Heaven’s finest that we might have the best; and He loathes with a holy abhorrence anything that would hinder our being reconciled to Him.”  Billy Graham

“Lord, I trust in You. I trust in Your mercy because You are merciful, I trust in Your grace, for You are gracious, I trust in Your goodness for You are good. I trust in Your strength for You are almighty, I trust in Your council for You are wise, I trust in Your compassion for You are love. I trust in the shelter of Your wings, in the shield of Your protection, in the safety of Your surrounding presence. Lord, I trust in You at all times, in all ways, and for all reasons. I trust in You, because what happens to me matters to You, and because my needs are Your concern. Lord, I trust in You, You are my heavenly Father, and I know that You would never do anything unkind or unloving to one of Your children.”     Roy Lessin  

“While I regarded God as a tyrant I thought my sin a trifle; But when I knew Him to be my Father, then I mourned that I could ever have kicked against Him.  When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.”  C.H. Spurgeon

“Though our Savior’s passion is over, His compassion is not.”  William Penn

“There is a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the sea.”  Frederick William Faber

“The popular image of Christ as ‘gentle Jesus meek and mild’ simply will not do.  To be sure, He was full of love, compassion and tenderness.  But He was also uninhibited in exposing error and denouncing hypocrisy.  Christ was a controversialist.”  John Stott

“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”   Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Jesus, the Blessed One, is gentle. Even though he speaks with great fervor and biting criticism against all forms of hypocrisy and is not afraid to attack deception, vanity, manipulation and oppression, his heart is a gentle heart. He won't break the crushed reed or snuff the faltering wick (see Matthew 12:20). He responds to people's suffering, heals their wounds, and offers courage to the fainthearted. Jesus came to bring good news to the poor, sight to the blind, and freedom to prisoners (see Luke 4:18-19) in all he says, and thus he reveals God's immense compassion. As his followers, we are called to that same gentleness.”   Henri Nouwen

“Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not As Thou hast been, Thou forever will be.”    Thomas Chisholm

“We judge things by their present appearance; but the Lord sees them in their consequences.  If we could do the same we would be perfectly of His mind; but since we can’t, it is an unspeakable mercy that He will manage for us, whether we are pleased with His management or not; and it is regarded as one of His heaviest judgments when He gives any person up to the way of their own hearts, and to walk according to their own wisdom.”  John Newton 

           

“It is rare that Christians earnestly seek the Lord’s face when things are going swimmingly, when material blessings abound and we seem to be protected from the vicissitudes faced by others.  But in the blackness of discouragement, when we are harassed and downcast, we may indeed turn to the Lord and acknowledge our helplessness apart from his grace; we may do so knowing that God is a compassionate God and that Jesus’ compassion was particularly directed toward the harassed and the helpless.”  D A Carson

“The Christian’s compassion must be like God’s – unceasing.”   William Barclay

“Let all find compassion in you.”   John of the Cross

“By compassion we make others’ misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.”   Sir Thomas Browne

“Every act of compassion done by anyone for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working in him.”   Julian of Norwich

“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”   Mother Teresa

“Take heart. He sees you. He hears you. He is not inattentive to your pleas. Even though your eyes cannot see him, his are fixed on you. In the midst of the bustling crowd, you have his attention, and you have his invitation. He is calling to you, and moving toward you, to heal, to bless, to extend his grace and compassion and mercy to you. Take heart; he is calling you.”  David Mathis

HEART SAVOR

·         Our God is full of compassion and mercy, slow to anger and abounding in love.

·         In love He sent His Son to die for our sins so that we no longer must wallow in them.  We were designed for higher – never settle for the lowlands.

·         He comforts us in all our troubles.   

 

Burn Like Fire Revelation 3:15-20 Numbers 25:10-13 Romans 12:11 Acts 18:24-25 Psalms 69:6-9 John 2:13-17 Jeremiah 20:8-9 Jeremiah 23:27-29 Proverbs 23:17 Hebrews 12:29 07.26.19

BURN LIKE FIRE

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¹⁵ “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷ You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. ¹⁹ Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. ²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.” Revelation 3:15-20 (NIV)

¹⁰ The LORD said to Moses, ¹¹ “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them, so that in my zeal I did not put an end to them. ¹² Therefore tell him I am making my covenant of peace with him. ¹³ He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites.”  Numbers 25:10-13 (NIV)

¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.  Romans 12:11 (NIV)

²⁴ Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. ²⁵ He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John.  Acts 18:24-25 (NIV)

⁶ May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord, the LORD Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel. ⁷ For I endure scorn for your sake, and shame covers my face. ⁸ I am a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my own mother's sons; ⁹ for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.  Psalm 69:6-9 (NIV)

¹³ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. ¹⁵ So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. ¹⁶ To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!” ¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”  John 2:13-17 (NIV)

⁸ Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long. ⁹ But if I say, “I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.   Jeremiah 20:8-9 (NIV)

²⁷ They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their fathers forgot my name through Baal worship. ²⁸ “Let the prophet who has a dream tell his dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the LORD. ²⁹ “Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?”  Jeremiah 23:27-29 (NIV)

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD. Proverbs 23:17 (NIV)

²⁹ For our “God is a consuming fire.”   Hebrews 12:29 (NIV)

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“The true zealot is fervent in the Spirit, not in the show; in reality, not in form; for God and not for himself.  Zeal is guided by the Word, and not one’s own fancy.  It receives praise from God and not men.  Such a man’s worth cannot be set forth with the tongues of men and angels.  Zeal leaps over all obstacles as fire passes from house to house.  Before it all God’s enemies fall. Where true zeal is, there will be opposition.  Christ calls and urges us to have it.  Let your milk boil over.  True zeal will not fade; it is perpetual.  He that has an ear to hear, be zealous!”  Samuel Ward 

“‘Do not be deceived: God is not mocked,’ the apostle Paul writes, ‘for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life’ (Galatians 6:7-8). The trouble is that we fool ourselves into thinking there’s some safe middle ground — that we can make excuses and put off sowing to the Spirit, while still denying the flesh. But we always sow to something, very often to ourselves. And what we sow slowly reveals, and shapes, what we love most in life.”  Marshall Segal

“Satan doesn’t surrender his prey without a fight.  He comes racing after the converted soul, chariot wheels churning the dust, seeking to discourage you, to defeat you.  He pursues you with the intensity of Pharaoh.  He may use your old friends, a spot of persecution, or discouraging responses by your family.  He may show you a hypocrite in the church or afflict you with a general slacking of zeal.  He may launch a missile of temptation right at your heart or fire a volley of trials and troubles into your life.”  Robert J. Morgan

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.  It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”  Albert Schweitzer

“Breathe on me, Breath of God, till I am wholly Thine; until this earthly part of me glows with Thy fire divine.”   Edwin Hatch

“Jesus knows what it’s like to press up against the limits of our flesh and blood and the bounds of finitude in our created world. He knows what it’s like to have limited capacity, and limited time, and end the day with unfinished tasks. He knows what it’s like to be wearied physically and what it’s like to need and carve out time for rest (Mark 6:31). He knows what it’s like to have work to accomplish (John 4:34; 5:36; 17:4). He had energy enough to work (almost) tirelessly, even on the Sabbath, when he encountered those in need (Luke 13:14-17; John 5:16-17; Mark 2:27-28). Through his works, his output of human energy, he not only bore witness to his Father (John 5:36; 9:3-5) and demonstrated whose he was (John 8:39-41; 10:25, 32) but also presented himself as the giver and focus of our faith (John 10:37-38; 14:10-11). This same Jesus not only calls us his brothers but also fellow ‘laborers’ (Matthew 9:37-38; Luke 10:7) and bids us to work with the energy we have for the good of others (Matthew 5:16). But he also does not leave us to our own energy. He doesn’t abandon us to what verve we can muster on our own, what we can produce merely through wise (and important) energy-management. He works in us — and does so powerfully, Paul says — to give us his own energy for the work to which he calls us. As Christians, we will do well to learn to steward the energy God gives us naturally through diet, exercise, and rest. It would be irresponsible and foolish for us to treat lightly the God-created gifts of food and sleep, and presume that he will energize us apart from these natural means. But oh, how foolish it would be to ignore or neglect Jesus’s amazing offer: that he himself, the God-man, would work his own powerful energy in us.”  David Mathis

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”   John Wesley

“Whatever may be the machinations and devices of the enemies of God’s people, there is still the same effectual barrier to thwart their design.  The saints are God’s heritage, and He is in the midst of them, and will protect His own.  What comfort this yields us in our troubles and spiritual conflicts!  We are constantly opposed, and yet perpetually preserved!  A saint never yet had a virtue or a grace which was not the target for hellish bullets:  whether it was hope bright and sparkling, or love warm and fervent , or patience all-enduring, or zeal flaming like coals of fire, the old enemy of everything that is good has tried to destroy it.  The only reason why anything virtuous or lovely survives in us is this, ‘the Lord was there’.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“Belief is a truth held in the mind.  Faith is a fire in the heart.”   Joseph Fort Newton

“Worldly ease is a great enemy to faith; it loosens the joints of holy zeal and snaps the sinews of sacred courage.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire, Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.” Amy Carmichael

HEART SAVOR

• ·         We are never to be lacking in zeal rather keep our spiritual fervor serving the Lord, remaining joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer.
• ·         As our Supreme Example, Jesus was zealous for God’s glory and we are to be as well.
• ·         Lukewarm is not an option for the child of the King.

A Lamp For Our Feet 2 Samuel 22:29 Psalms 27:1 Micah 7:8 Psalms 18:28 Psalms 119:105 Proverbs 6:23 Proverbs 20:27 Psalms 119:130 2 Peter 1:19-21 Revelation 21:22-27 Isaiah 2:5 07.24.19

A LAMP FOR OUR FEET

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²⁹ You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light.   2 Samuel 22:29 (NIV)

¹ The LORD is my light and my salvation-- whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?  Psalm 27:1 (NIV)

⁸ Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.   Micah 7:8 (NIV)

²⁸ You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light. Psalm 18:28 (NIV)

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.  Psalm 119:105 (NIV)

²³ For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.   Proverbs 6:23 (NIV)

²⁷ The lamp of the LORD searches the spirit of a man; it searches out his inmost being. Proverbs 20:27 (NIV)

¹³⁰ The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130 (NIV)

¹⁹ And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. ²¹ For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 
2 Peter 1:19-21 (NIV)

²² I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. ²⁵ On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. ²⁶ The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. ²⁷ Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.  Revelation 21:22-27 (NIV)

⁵ Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.  Isaiah 2:5 (NIV)

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“The conviction of the Holy Spirit is always precise:  He identifies root causes of sin, and He moves the heart to specific acts of repentance and obedience.  All those who trust God sufficiently to desire to obey Him, and who are patient in waiting upon Him, will find unfailingly that HE gives clear guidance.  ‘In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths’, promises Proverbs 3:6.  For those who love God everything is aboveboard.  To know Him is to know what He requires and more than that, it is to have the power to carry it out.  In fact these two—enlightenment and empowering—go hand in hand, and where they do not, then the Lord is not in it.”    Mike Mason

“What a fellowship, what a joy divine, Leaning on the everlasting arms! What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the everlasting arms!  Leaning, leaning, Safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the everlasting arms.  Oh how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, Leaning on the everlasting arms!  Oh how bright the path Grows from day to day, Leaning on the everlasting arms.  Leaning, leaning, Safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the everlasting arms.  What have I to dread, what have I to fear, Leaning on the everlasting arms?  I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, Leaning on the everlasting arms.  Leaning, leaning, Safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the everlasting arms.”   Elisha A. Hoffman

“If you love someone, will you want to make him miserable?  Will you go out of your way to punish him if he doesn’t do exactly what you tell him to?  No, of course not – not if you really love him.  The same is true with God.  God loves you, and because He loves you, He cares what happens to you.  He loves you too much to let you wander aimlessly through life, without meaning or purpose.  The Bible says, ‘You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy’ (Psalms 16:11).  Covet God’s will for your life more than anything else.  To know God’s will – and to do it – is life’s greatest joy.”   Billy Graham

“A group decided to hike the mountains of southern Kentucky.  They hired the best-known guide in the area to lead them on their journey.  But after only a few hours on the trail, their guide seemed perplexed.  Soon, they discovered they were lost and head been walking in circles.  One of the friends looked at their guide and asked, ‘How can you be the best in the state of Kentucky?’  To which the man replied, ‘That’s just it.  I’m afraid we are in Tennessee.’  Many people in our nation are following similarly misinformed guides today.  These so-called leaders believe they can operate without God and His Word, but they are tragically mistaken.  Those who follow them are likewise deceived – completely unaware that they could be headed for hell unless they change course.  As for you and me, we must search the Scriptures and discover true north: the will of God.  He has given us all we need to discern His will – The Holy Spirit and His Word.  Without them, we will wonder off God’s path and away from the Truth.  Let us therefore commit ourselves to daily seeking the Lord, for He alone can lead us to heaven and eternal life.”   Michael Youssef. 
  

“The oil of the lamp in the temple burned away in giving light; so should we.”  Robert Murray M’Cheyne

“God has as a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do all things.  Believer, until you can drain the ocean dry of omnipotence and break the towering mountains of almighty strength into pieces, you never need to be afraid.  Don’t think that the strength of a human being shall ever be able to overcome the power of God.  As long as the earth’s huge pillars stand, you have enough reason to remain firm in your faith.  The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply you with daily strength.  While He is able to uphold the universe, don’t even dream that He will prove unable to fulfill His own promises.  Remember what He did in ages past, in the former generations.  Remember how He spoke, and it was done; how He commanded, and it stood fast.  Shall He that created the world grow weary?  He hangs the world upon nothing; shall He who does this be unable to support His children?  Shall He be unfaithful to His word for want of power?  Who is it that restrains the tempest?   Doesn’t He ride upon the wings of the wind, and make the clouds His chariots, and hold the ocean in the hollow of His hand?  How can He fail you?  When He has put such a faithful promise as this on record, will you for a moment indulge the thought that He has out promised Himself, and gone beyond his power to fulfill?  Ah, no!  You cannot doubt any longer.”    Charles H. Spurgeon

“The Wise not only still follow the Light, seek the Light — they become the Light.”  Ann Voskampispower to fulfill?  Ah, no!  ou cannot doubt any longer.”   Charlesd H. Spurgeon

“God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you.”   Thomas Brooks

“They do not go wrong who go in the company of God.  Like Enoch, walk with God, and you cannot mistake your road.  You have infallible wisdom to direct you, immutable love to comfort you, and eternal power to defend you.  ‘The LORD’ – note the word – ‘The LORD will guide you always.”   Charles H. Spurgeon

“The brilliant are always the ones who simply live like light. What breaks any dark is the courage of just one star.”  Ann Voskamp

“The darkness cannot understand the Light and the darkness cannot overcome the Light, Who is the LOGOS, Who is Jesus.  There is neither comprehension nor victory in opposition to the Light.  The darkness cannot overcome because its power is temporary, and its influence is temporary.  This Light shone before the world was.  This Light will shine after the world is no more.  The darkness cannot comprehend the Light.”  Ronnie Collier Stevens

“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”  Madeline L’Engle

HEART SAVOR

·         Jesus turns our darkness into light.

·         Those who follow Him will never walk in darkness.

·         God’s Word is a lamp for our way.

How Marvelous 1 John 3:1 John 3:16-17 Romans 5:6-8 Ephesians 2:1-5 1 John 4:9-10 Isaiah 9:6 Romans 8:31-39 07.22.19

HOW MARVELOUS

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¹ How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.   1 John 3:1 (NIV)

¹⁶  “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. ¹⁷  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”   John 3:16-17 (NIV)

⁶ You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
⁷ Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  Romans 5:6-8

¹ As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. ³ All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.  Ephesians 2:1-5 (NIV)

⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.   1 John 4:9-10 (NIV)

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)

BUTTER

“I stand amazed in the presence  Of Jesus the Nazarene, And wonder how He could love me, A sinner, condemned, unclean.  O how marvelous! O how wonderful! And my song shall ever be:  O how marvelous! O how wonderful!  Is my Savior's love for me!”   Charles H. Gabriel 

“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”   C. T. Studd

“Well might the sun in darkness hide, and shut his glories in, when God the mighty Maker died for man, the creature’s sin.”  Isaac Watts

“I was the enemy of God.  I was stamping through God’s universe, shaking my fist in His face.  And in the very moment when I was shaking my fist in God’s face and tramping through the Creator’s universe, muddying all His streams, that’s when Jesus died for me.  And if this is when Jesus died for me, what hope it gives me now!  Now, even when I fall, the blood of Jesus is enough.  He didn’t save me because I was strong; He saved me when I was weak. He didn’t save me when I was a pretty thing; He saved me when I was a mess. On the basis of this reality, I can have comfort.”  Francis Schaeffer

“This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: ‘I will help thee’.  ‘It is but a small thing for Me, thy God, to help thee.  Consider what I have done already.  What!  Not help thee?  Why, I bought thee with My blood.  What!  Not help thee?  I have died for thee; and if I have done the greater, will I not do the less?  Help thee!  It is the least thing I will ever do for thee; I have done more, and will do more.  Before the world began I chose thee.  I made the covenant for thee.  I laid aside My glory and became a man for thee; I gave My life for thee; and if I did all this, I will surely help thee now.  In helping thee, I am giving thee what I have bought for thee already.  If thou hadst need of a thousand times as much help, I would give it thee; thou requirest little compared with what I am ready to give.  ‘Tis much for thee to need, but it is nothing for me to bestow.  “Help thee?”  Fear not!  If there were an ant at the door of thy granary asking for help, it would not ruin thee to give him a handful of thy wheat; and thou art nothing but a tiny insect at the door of my all sufficiency.  “I will help thee”.’  O my soul, is not this enough?  Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity?  Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit?  Bring hither thine empty pitcher!  Surely this well will fill it.  Haste, gather up thy wants, and bring them there – thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs.  Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside?  Go forth, my soul, in this thy might.  The Eternal God is thine helper!”  C. H. Spurgeon

“We have a God who sees hearts like we see faces, a God who hears ache like we hear voices, and we have a God who touches wounds like we touch skin. No one’s crazy can change God’s crazy love.  Jesus died to save us not to make us safe. No one ever got saved unless someone else was unsafe.”   Ann Voskamp

“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    

“Awake, my soul and sing of Him who died for thee; and hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity.”  Matthew Bridges/Godfrey Thring

“Christian, do you believe that He has your best interest at heart?  Do you believe that He has rescued you from the dominion of darkness?  Do you believe He loves you with an everlasting love?  Do you believe that He will never forsake you?  Do you believe that His faithfulness is new every morning?  Do you believe that He died for you and if He already did the greater will He not do the lesser?  Do you believe that He rejoices over you with singing?  Do you believe that He would leave the ninety-nine to come and find you?  Do you believe that in Him there is comfort, peace and joy?  Then look to Him and have hope.”  BHY

HEART SAVOR

·         How very great is the Father’s love.  He loves us with an everlasting love and rejoices over us with singing.

·         When we were both dead in our sins and powerless to do anything about it Christ died for us.

·         I am convinced that nothing shall separate us from the love of Christ – absolutely.nothing.