tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63167301295277245742024-02-19T10:06:44.371+02:00Christian DevotionsDaily Christian Devotions and Readings.Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-85642281999994796212011-01-16T15:30:00.000+02:002011-01-16T15:30:01.321+02:00God spared not the angels that sinnedTHEN, is it not wonderful that he should spare us ? They were more noble in their nature, and more exalted in their station; yet when they sinned God did not spare them, but cast them down to hell. Nor would he have spared us, but for the method of his grace; by which his Son became our substitute, took our responsibility, came into our world, and acted as our surety. And when he appeared in thisMizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-75174791427283517632011-01-15T15:29:00.000+02:002011-01-15T15:29:00.205+02:00I will look for himTHE Lord often conceals himself from his people. He leaves them, that they may learn the value of his presence, their dependence upon him, and their impotence without him. When he withdraws their comfort declines, their prospects are beclouded, then- enemies are lively, and their fears are often strong. They feel desolate, depressed, and alone. And except Satan beguile them, or the things of timeMizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-87864198235568786602011-01-14T19:20:00.000+02:002011-01-14T19:20:00.376+02:00Let us hold fast our professionWE have a great, a glorious High Priest; he has made a full atonement for our sins; he is gone to present his blood before his Father in the holiest of all; he has a tender heart; he ever liveth to make intercession for us. We have professed to be the true circumcision, to trust in his finished work alone for acceptance with God, and to devote ourselves entirely to his service. But there are manyMizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-18201273086724303712011-01-13T11:18:00.000+02:002011-01-13T11:18:00.364+02:00On whom dost thou trust?THIS is a very important question. Much depends on it. Let vis therefore apply it to ourselves, and to each other. On whom dost thou trust? On thyself? Then hear God's testimony, " He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." He knows not its weakness, its depravity, or its deceitfulness; or he would never trust it. On whom dost thou trust? On thy fellow-men? Then hear God's threatening, " Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-25449932068125043182011-01-12T22:17:00.000+02:002011-01-12T22:17:00.321+02:00Ye are sanctifiedTHE Corinthians were by nature dreadfully depraved, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. They were created anew in Christ Jesus, they were sanctified by the power of the Holy Ghost. To be sanctified is to be separated from sinners; to be delivered from the power of sin, and to be set apart for God. Sanctification begins in regeneration. There is no holiness in any one of God's Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-81809647336240357532011-01-11T07:14:00.000+02:002011-01-11T07:14:00.349+02:00No lie will swallow up death in victoryDEATH is the fruit of sin. It is God's standing testimony against it. It is man's enemy. It is the object of the sinners dread. It has filled many saints with fear and alarm. Some are all their life time subject to bondage through the fear of death. It is a solemn event. The consequences are momentous. We must die. No one can escape it. No one will, except those who are alive when Jesus comes. Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-91433542935591516542011-01-10T05:12:00.000+02:002011-01-10T05:12:00.357+02:00They have not all obeyed the gospelAND does the gospel require obedience? Yes : it commands us to repent of sin; to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ; to pray always and not to faint; to confess Christ before men; to glorify God in our bodies and spirits which are God's ; and to consecrate ourselves and all we have to the Lord's glory. But comparatively few obey the gospel. Reader, do you? Are you daily sorrowing for sin ? Are you Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-90254352690070151682011-01-09T18:11:00.000+02:002011-01-09T18:11:00.614+02:00Fear not: for I have redeemed theeISRAEL needed redemption both from Egypt and Babylon, and the Lord redeemed themWe needed to be redeemed from sin, Satan, and the present evil world, and Jesus has become our Redeemer. The price of our redemption was his precious blood; the power that effects our deliverance is the power of his Holy Spirit. The legal difficulties were all removed when he died in our stead, but we were as really Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-62964222804811275902011-01-08T13:10:00.000+02:002011-01-08T13:10:00.410+02:00Whose I amWE are all the Lord's by creation: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves. He produced us by his power, and intended us for his glory. But the generality withhold from God his right. They do not own him, worship him, or obey him. He is not in all their thoughts. But this was not the case with Paul. He had made a surrender of himself to God. He had consecrated all his powers to his Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-84676905892222600932011-01-07T15:08:00.000+02:002011-01-07T15:08:00.393+02:00In the Lord have I righteousness and strengthEVERY believer proves that he has neither in himself. The longer he lives, the more deeply he feels that he must look out of himself for the righteousness that is to justify him before God, and daily go to the Saviour for strength to conquer sin, overcome the world, perform duty, resist Satan, and glorify God. What an unspeakable mercy it is, that this morning the Lord whom we worship is our Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-24665143480057312862011-01-06T15:07:00.000+02:002011-01-06T15:07:00.572+02:00All things that the Father hath are mineHERE is an indirect proof of the Divinity of Jesns; for if he claims and possesses all that the Father hath, he must be God. But all things that the Father hath, belong to Jesus; that Jesus in whom we trust, to whom we are united, and with whom we shall live for ever. Jesus possesses the Divine nature equally with the Father, and is God over all, blessed for evermore. He claims all the Divine Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-70905528747183042252011-01-05T15:04:00.000+02:002011-01-05T15:04:00.191+02:00Thy mercy, O Lord, held me upWE are at best poor tottering creatures, never fit to be left alone for one moment. And then the road we have to travel is dangerous, and the path often slippery. One incautious step involves us in many long and severe troubles. Nor are we ever sure, but that our foot may next be placed on ice. Circumspection, therefore, is absolutely necessary; but circumspection alone is not sufficient to Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-74283887656840397642011-01-04T15:04:00.000+02:002011-01-04T15:04:00.281+02:00Being born againA NEW birth is absolutely necessary. No one can possibly be saved without it. Therefore Jesus told Nicodemus twice, that he must be born again. As our first birth was necessary to bring us into this world, and fit us for its employments and enjoyments, so a second birth is necessary to bring us into the Church of Christ, and fit as for its duties and privileges. No new birth, no true happiness Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-44294792617253193532011-01-03T14:02:00.002+02:002011-01-03T14:02:00.292+02:00Teach me thy way, O LordWE all need divine teaching, for our ignorance is great, and there are many evil influences operating upon us. If we have discovered our ignorance, we desire to be taught of God. If we desire to be taught of God, he has promised to teach us; he has said, " I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." This is a very suitable and a verv Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-45127559907408184852011-01-02T08:01:00.000+02:002011-01-02T08:01:01.290+02:00Christ hath once suffered for sinsSIN is the cause of all suffering. God punishes nothing but sin. If therefore we suffer, it is a proof that we have sinned. But Jesus suffered. Had he sinned ? No; " he did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth." Why then did he suffer ? Because he was the substitute of sinners. He engaged to bear our sins, to suffer in our stead, to make atonement for our transgressions ; and therefore, Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-53962020549743420552011-01-01T15:00:00.002+02:002011-01-01T15:00:01.769+02:00Honour the Lord with thy substanceWE received it from him, and we should consecrate it to him. Upon every thing that we possess, we may write, This is from God. He gave it to us. He intended it for our good, to make us happy and to make us holy. As every mercy comes from him, it should lead us back to him. We cannot honour God by hoarding or by wasting: neither the miser nor the prodigal honour the Lord. But we may by enjoying Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-6153583169408221702010-12-31T18:59:00.000+02:002010-12-31T18:59:00.226+02:00I have prayed for theeJESUS prayed for Peter in the prospect of his fall. He knew the designs of Satan, he knew that enemy had desired to have him that he might sift him as wheat, hut as the great Intercessor he pleaded with his Father for him: and what he did for Peter, he does for us. Sweet thought this, Jesus knows all Satan's designs and movements, and he prays for us that our faith may not fail! He watches that Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-9625553207975327472010-12-30T08:57:00.000+02:002010-12-30T08:57:00.557+02:00He giveth grace unto the lowlySIN destroyed humility and made us proud-i but grace restores it and makes us lowly. Whatever a man may be, if he is not humble, he is not a Christian. Humility is always lovely, and is highly esteemed of God. Nothing will make us so happy, or fit us for usefulness, like humility. The humble may have any thing he desires, for God will withhold nothing from him. But his humility will preserve him Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-89263690591833002282010-12-29T13:56:00.003+02:002010-12-29T13:56:00.691+02:00I am he which searcheth the reins and the heartsJESUS must be the Omniscient God, or he could not do so; and he must desire truth in the inward parts, or he would not do so. His eye is always upon us, not only on our path, and our outward actions, but upon our hearts. He is perfectly acquainted with every motive, with every purpose, and with every plan : all is known unto him. This should make us serious, for it is a solemn thing for the eye Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-51344588399300241902010-12-28T15:54:00.000+02:002010-12-28T15:54:00.947+02:00Glory ye in his holy nameTHE Lord's name reveals his nature. It is written out partly on the works of nature ; but its full revelation is in the person and work of Jesus. Here we learn what God is. What are his thoughts respecting us. What he is willing to do for us, or confer upon us. God is in Christ. "No man hath seen God at anytime ; but the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-80808541444918338182010-12-27T10:53:00.001+02:002010-12-27T10:53:00.823+02:00Neither give place to the devilSATAN is pleased to see us angry, and endeavours to render us implacable. But when betrayed into a passion, we should realize its sinfulness, confess it before God, and be ready to forgive those who have provoked us. To indulge iu a passionate, or a sulky temper, is to give place to the devil. He is sure to tempt us to do so, but he should be firmly and constantly resisted. If we give place to Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-65620394002076465722010-12-26T15:52:00.000+02:002010-12-26T15:52:00.270+02:00His secret is with the righteousSECRETS are kept for friends. A wise man will not open his mind to a stranger. So there are secrets in God's word, and secrets in God's ways, which are only made known unto his people. This is a proof of his love to them, as Jesus said to his disciples, " I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made known unto you." John iv. 15. There is secret communion Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-1664376736445824882010-12-25T17:51:00.000+02:002010-12-25T17:51:00.147+02:00Of whom shall I be afraid?IF you are in Christ - if you are following that which is good - if you are living and walking by faith - if you are aiming at God's glory in all you do - you need not be afraid of any one. For in Christ, you are safe from dangerwhile you follow that which is good, nothing can harm you - living and walking by faith, you will overcome every difficulty and conquer every foe - and while aiming Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-67876333808488062212010-12-24T23:22:00.000+02:002010-12-24T23:22:00.235+02:00The Saviour of the world. JohnJESUS is the Saviour of sinners, of sinners of every nation under heaven. The Jews fancied that salvation was to he confined to them, but it is sent unto the Gentiles. There is now no difference between the Jew and the Greek, all have sinned, all need salvation, Jesus is able to save all, and all are welcome to seek and find salvation in him. The gospel excludes no one. There is no sinner but Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6316730129527724574.post-4411326342901534982010-12-23T09:45:00.000+02:002010-12-23T09:45:00.410+02:00Babes in ChristALL believers are in Christ, and have the same privileges; but all believers are not of the same stature. Some are fathers, some are young men, and some are only babes in Christ. The babe is born of God and has spiritual life, but it has little knowledge and less strength. Every babe breathes forth its desires in prayer at God's throne, but many of them cannot call God father, or enjoy boldness Mizushouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864335464625150847noreply@blogger.com0