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Helovesme2
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Username: Helovesme2
Post Number: 632
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 8:36 am: |     |
Reguarding fear, I'd like to share this devotional reading from Spurgeon:
quote:"Calm in the Midst of Terror"
"You shall not be afraid of the terror by night." Psalm 91:5 (KJV)
What is this terror: It may be the cry of fire or the noise of thieves of the shriek of sudden sickness or death. We live in a world of death and sorrow. This should not alarm us, for be the terror what it may, the promise is that the believer shall not be afraid. Why should he? God our Father is here and will be here all thru the lonely hours; He is an almighty Watcher, a sleepless Guardian, a faithful Friend. Nothing can happen without His direction, for even hell itself is under His control. Darkness is not dark to Him. He has promised to be a wall of fire around His people - and who can break through such a barrier? Worldlings might be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy. If we give way to foolish fear, we lead others to doubt the reality of godliness. We ought to be afraid of being afraid, lest we should displease the Holy Spirit by distrust. God has not forgotten to be gracious nor shut up His tender mercies; It may be night in the soul, but there need be no terror, for the God of love changes not. Children of light may walk in darkness, but they are not therefore cast away; no, they are now enabled to prove their adoption by trusting in their heavenly Father as hypocrites cannot do.
by Charles Spurgeon
Blessings,
Mary |
Flyinglady
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Username: Flyinglady
Post Number: 2775
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 9:17 am: | |
Thanks Mary, I needed that at this time.
Diana |
Cathy2
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Username: Cathy2
Post Number: 196
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 10:44 am: | |
Thank you, Mary.
"...there need be no terror." Yes!
And that we are children of and in the Light!
Some of you know of my fears over my girls, when they were with their dad and his occult girlfriend. Answers to prayer came through. Even this week, when I had to tell him our youngest could not play a role-playing game he and her were talking about on the phone. I had feared to confont him about it, but it went all right.
Thank you for all your prayers in July.
Love in Christ,
Cathy |
Colleentinker
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Username: Colleentinker
Post Number: 4546
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, September 02, 2006 - 5:32 pm: | |
Thank you, Mary. What a wonderful devotional. Cathy, thanks for sharing that. God is so faithful. And He wastes nothing, redeeming everything we submit to Him.
Colleen |
Leigh
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Username: Leigh
Post Number: 106
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 03, 2006 - 5:47 am: | |
Thanks, Mary. I'm going to print this out. |
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