IT IS WELL, WITH MY SOUL

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A POST WORTH READING

Here is the link to a blog I subscribe to.  The man who writes there often has many good things to say but today is really worth sharing.  Here is the link.  Enjoy.

http://www.reformedandconservative.com/2011/11/worship-and-beauty-and-difference.html?showComment=1322663733384#c7993102532642353535

BACK TO WORK

Today is Monday.  Not just any Monday, but the Monday after Thanksgiving.  Four days off of work is a very long time.  It was a wonderful time.  I cannot remember the last time I had that many days off with nothing special to do.  Sure, there was the week off of work to go to Texas and Tulsa as well as all of the monthly trips to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America to get Melissa's treatment but we were just as busy there as I would have been if I went to work instead.  These past four days have been so wonderfully refreshing because there was nothing to do but sit in my apartment and well, do nothing.

WWII in HD

If you have not seen the movie series titled, "WWII in HD", then you should.  I have watched it in the last two days and it has prompted and galvanized a greater appreciation to God for the grace He has shown me by keeping me from seeing and experiencing greater amounts of horror than otherwise possible.  We live in a world of pain and this great country I was born into continually fails to appreciate God for that grace which we deem so common.  In light of the world around us, it is not as common as we would like to pretend.

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” - Charles Spurgeon

VICTORY OVER SIN

The vanquishing of sin in your life as a Christian is many times held back by God for the purpose of driving you to your knees in prayer, promoting more dependence on God and less dependence upon self.  True fellowship with God is necessary to overcome the sin that so easily entangles you.  Not just biblical truth itself, but actual, secret meetings with God.  Meetings where you take the time to pour out your heart before the Lord, requesting that God use His strong arm on your behalf to destroy any strongholds that the enemy has built up in your life.  Regular meetings with God until you can confidently say with the Psalmist, "I love the Lord because He hears my voice and my prayers for mercy.  Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath!"  Let the fact that God has heard your prayers and vanquished these pockets of resistance in your life be real and practical and not just theoretical.  Dear reader, ask yourself, "Can I truly say with the Psalmist that I will pray as long as I have breath because He hears me?"  Have you set yourself to pray for specific things in your life and continued in prayer until it has been won?  We truly do not have, because we have not truly asked.  Go.  Meet with God and He will deliver.  Depend not upon yourself any longer and you will surely be delivered from whatever it is that is coming in between you and your God.

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?