Day: January 16, 2012

Troubles, Troubles, Troubles! Part 2

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James Smith 90x115by James Smith

"The Believer’s Companion in Seasons of Affliction and Trouble" 1842

"Call upon Me in the day of trouble! I will deliver you–and you shall glorify Me!" Psalm 50:15

Believer, in this portion of the divine Word, you will discover:
   1. your present portion–trouble,
   2. your constant privilege–prayer,
   3. your future prospect–deliverance.

1. Your present portion is TROUBLE.

2. Your constant privilege is PRAYER–to visit the throne of grace, and wait upon our God. He says, "Call upon Me in the day of trouble!" Troubles . . . furnish us with messages to our Father’s throne, quicken us in our supplications, and oblige us to entreat His favor!

Do You Walk In White?

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Oswald Chambers 90x115by Oswald Chambers

We were buried with Him . . . that just as Christ was raised from the dead . . . even so we also should walk in newness of life —Romans 6:4

No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a “white funeral”-the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification will never be more than an elusive dream. There must be a “white funeral,” a death with only one resurrection-a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can defeat a life like this. It has oneness with God for only one purpose— to be a witness for Him.

Have you really come to your last days? You have often come to them in your mind, but have you really experienced them? You cannot die or go to your funeral in a mood of excitement. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death. It is dying— being “baptized into His death” (Romans 6:3).

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