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OF LOVE HE GUIDES INSTRUCTS AND EMPOWERS
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8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Psalms 32:8 (NIV)
11 Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the
fear of the LORD. 12 Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good
days, 13 keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking
lies. 14 Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalms 34:11-14 (NIV)
8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs
sinners in his ways. 9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them
his way. 10 All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful for
those who keep the demands of his covenant. Psalms 25:8-10 (NIV)
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the
people he chose for his inheritance. 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. 16 No
king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great
strength. 17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all
its great strength it cannot save. 18 But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on
those whose hope is in his unfailing love, 19 to
deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. Psalms 33:12-19 (NIV)
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that
you may know him better. 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be
enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the
riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and
his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working
of his mighty strength, 20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the
dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far
above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be
given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. Ephesians 1:17-21 (NIV)
15 The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man
listens to advice. Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)
17 This
is what the LORD says--your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD
your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you
should go. 18 If only you had paid attention to my commands, your
peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the
sea. 19 Your descendants would have been like the sand, your
children like its numberless grains; their name would never be cut off nor
destroyed from before me.” Isaiah
48:17-19 (NIV)
12 For
the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it
penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the
thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews
4:12 (NIV)
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“Christ is your guide to bring you
safely home. Sin is a rejecting of His
help and our happiness. God does not
rule you as a tyrant to your hurt or ruin.
His laws are for your good and safety.
He is directing you to eternal life, and guiding you be His
counsel. He is leading you to the world
of light where there are rivers of pleasure and fullness of joy for evermore.” Richard Baxter
“Lord, I would clasp Thy hand in
mine, Nor ever murmur nor repine; Content whatever lot I see, Since ‘tis my God
that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He
leadeth me, By His own hand He leadeth me; His faithful follower I would be,
For by His hand He leadeth me.” Joseph
H. Gilmore
“Through
Scripture, the prophets and apostles Biblically instruct, warn, and exhort us
as they promote righteousness and condemn the practice of dead religion. They
extend God’s gracious invitation for people to repent, and they tell of God’s
promise to bless those who obey Him. There is a word for every situation in our
lives in God’s Holy Bible. John Stott
said that when we exercise the gift of prophecy and bring a word from God,
relying faithfully on Scripture, we will disturb the comfortable and comfort
the disturbed. Prophecy is a gift for the strengthening, encouraging, and comforting
of the church.”
Michael Youssef
“Common,
too common, is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and
ingratitude. He deserves better from us, for He is good, supremely good. As
God, He is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of
"Holy, holy, holy" that ascends to the Triune God. He is unmixed
purity, truth, and grace. He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our
waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills, quickening us from our death
in sin, and then training us for heaven as a loving father trains his children.
How generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God. He is good
operatively. All His works are good in
the most eminent degree: He suggests good thoughts, prompts good actions,
reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments, and
leads to good results. There is no spiritual good in all the world of which He
is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect
character of its redeemed inhabitants to His work. He is good officially:
Whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier, Quickener, or Intercessor,
He fulfills His office well, and each work is filled with the highest good to
the church of God. Those who yield to
His influences become good; those who obey His impulses do good; those who live
under His power receive good. Let us then act toward Him according to the
dictates of gratitude. Let us revere His person and adore Him as God
over all, blessed forever; let us own His power and our need of Him by waiting
upon Him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly seek His help and never
grieve Him; and let us speak His praise whenever occasion occurs. The church
will never prosper until it more reverently believes in the Holy Spirit. He is
so good and kind that it is sad indeed that He should be grieved by slights and
negligences.” C.
H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“‘Wait on the Lord’ is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and
it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a
hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we
need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time.
When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed,
light will come.” J. I. Packer
“Frail children of dust, And feeble as
frail. In Thee do we trust, Nor find Thee
to fail. Thy mercies how tender! How
firm to the end! Our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer, and Friend!" Robert Grant
“It is a lazy heart that will loiter when
it should follow. It is a foolish heart
that will let Him go while it plays with every toy in the way. It is a cowardly heart that will draw back in
danger when it should follow our heavenly General. It is a treacherous heart that will give us
the slip and deceive us when we are the surest of it. It is a short-sighted heart that even when it
follows Christ as guide, it is barely kept from missing the bridge and falling
into the gulf of misery…Remember how obedience has been sweet afterward, and
how bitter the fruit of sin was.”
Richard Baxter
HEART SAVOR
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His guiding is always profitable for
the child of the King.
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He instructs us in the way we should
go and we are the great losers if we neglect to follow hard after Jesus.
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His ways lead to righteousness and peace.
