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8 Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known
among the nations what he has done. 9 Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his
wonderful acts. 10 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who
seek the LORD rejoice. 11 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face
always. 1 Chronicles 16:8-11 (NIV)
1 Then Job replied to the LORD: 2 “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be
thwarted. 3 You
asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke
of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. 4 “You
said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer
me.’ 5 My
ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. 6 Therefore
I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”
Job 42:1-6 (NIV)
8 Let
them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for
men, 9 for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with
good things. Psalms 107:8-9 (NIV)
5 You hem me in--behind and before; you have laid your
hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for
me to attain. 7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from
your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my
bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the
far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand
will hold me fast. Psalms 139:5-10 (NIV)
3 Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his
greatness no one can fathom. 4 One generation will commend your works to another; they
will tell of your mighty acts. 5 They will speak of the glorious splendor of your
majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works. 6 They will tell of the power of your awesome works, and
I will proclaim your great deeds. 7 They
will celebrate your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of your righteousness. 8 The
LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. 9 The
LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. Psalms 145:3-9 (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)
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NIV)
29 All this also comes from the LORD Almighty, wonderful
in counsel and magnificent in wisdom. Isaiah
28:29 (NIV)
14 The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and
he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law
saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple area, “Hosanna
to the Son of David,” they were indignant. 16 “Do
you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have
you never read, “‘From the lips of children and infants you have ordained
praise’?” Matthew 21:14-16 (NIV)
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once
you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not
received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10 (NIV)
33 Oh,
the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable
his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Who
has ever given to God, that God should repay him?” 36 For
from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen. Romans 11:33-36 (NIV)
25 “To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?”
says the Holy One. 26 “Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created
all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by
name. Because of his great power and
mighty strength, not one of them is missing. 27 Why
do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel, ‘My way is hidden from the LORD; my
cause is disregarded by my God’? 28 Do
you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator
of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding
no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power
of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men
stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their
strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow
weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:25-31 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Is it not wonderful news to believe
that salvation lies outside ourselves?” Martin
Luther
“For the love of
God is broader than the measures of man’s mind; and the heart of the Eternal is
most wonderfully kind.” Frederick
William Faber
“The most marvelous thing in God's creation,
the most wonderful thing in world history, is that God loved sinners and sent
His Son to save them.” J.I. Packer
“However low the people of God are
at any time brought, everlasting arms are underneath them to keep the spirit
from fainting and the faith from failing, even when they are pressed above
measure…everlasting arms with which believers have been wonderfully sustained
and kept cheerful in the worst of times.
Divine grace is sufficient.”
Matthew Henry
“There is a great and wonderful truth embodied in
these words. The whole victory of life
is in them – ‘Trust in the Lord and take heart.’ That means the exercise of courage, the
consciousness of being linked to one mightier than ourselves, and it helps one
to keep smiling, to keep sunshiny, and to have not only a song on the lip, but
one in the heart.” Fanny Crosby
“Because
He is, you are. Because He is love, you are loved and you can
be loving. Because He is life,
you are alive. Because He is
able, you are capable. Because He is almighty, you are mighty. Because He is a healer, you are
healed. Because He is wisdom,
you can be wise. Because He is a
master artisan, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.” Lisa
Bevere
“‘He
is my refuge and my fortress’ (Psalm 91:2).
A refuge is a place safely out of harm’s way. A fortress is a fortified building that is
virtually impenetrable by conventional means.
Martin Luther wrote a wonderful hymn that says, ‘A mighty fortress is
our God; a bulwark never failing. Our
helper He amidst the flood; of mortal ills prevailing.’ What a statement about the magnificent power
and protection of God! Does God care for
you and me? Can we turn to Him in trust
and faith when troubles and temptations threaten to overwhelm us? Yes – a thousand times yes! What greater proof do we need than that He
sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die in our place?”
Billy Graham
“Believers who know Christ
understand that delight and faith are so
wonderfully
united that the gates of hell cannot manage to separate them. Those who love
God with all their hearts find that His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
His paths are peace. The saints discover in Christ such joy, such overflowing
delight, such blessedness that far from serving Him from custom, they would
follow Him even though the whole world rejected Him. We do not fear God because
of any compulsion; our faith is no shackle, our profession is no bondage, we
are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure,
our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having
alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to
walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was
extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man,
and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and
gentle condescension. This
grace that appeared so calm and sweet, appeared also great above the heavens.
The person of Christ appeared ineffably excellent with an excellency great
enough to swallow up all thought and conception … which continued
as near as I can judge, about an hour; which kept me the greater part of the
time in a flood of tears, and weeping aloud. I felt an ardency of soul to be,
what I know not otherwise how to express, emptied and annihilated; to lie in
the dust, and to be full of Christ alone; to love him with a holy and pure
love; to trust in him; to live upon him; to serve and follow him; and to be
perfectly sanctified and made pure, with a divine and heavenly purity. I have,
several other times, had views very much of the same nature, and which have had
the same effects.” Jonathan Edwards
HEART SAVOR
·
His
children are to seek His face always and tell of His wonderful acts. The One Who gives the power gets the glory.
·
He does
things far too wonderful for us to even comprehend and like Job (and the
example of Jonathan Edwards) we are to repent and lie in dust, emptied and
annihilated.
·
His unfailing
love and wonderful deeds towards man satisfies us with good things.
