Author: Apostle Carl Chewning
Evening Prayer
VICTORY IN BATTLE
Psalm 18:32-39
In Jesus’ Name, I Pray God’s Will for You
I pray that God will prepare you for the battles you will face in life. May He train your hands for combat and arm you with strength. Praise Him for He gives you a shield of victory and makes your adversaries bow at your feet. I pray that your help will always come from the Lord, for He is your refuge and strength. In times of trouble, may He sustain you and make you great. I pray that you will honor God in all your battles and glorify Him in your victories.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Are You Afraid?
Then he asked them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
~ Mark 4:40 [NLT]
The disciples had been with Jesus enough to see many miracles done but yet they underestimated the power He had to control the wind. You may not be aware of your fears, but they drive at the heart of your words, actions, and attitudes. Take a moment and think about your fears. Now, think about each time Jesus has performed miracles in your life. When you uncover your fears and approach them with His past faithfulness, your fears will lose all control. Do you allow your fears to overtake your faith?
Eternal Perspectives
We sin because we see sin as a bargain. We unconsciously calculate that it’s worth it, that it pays, that “justice is not more profitable than injustice.” Sin seems to be simply a choice between alternative life-styles on earth. But if we recognize that all sin is Hellish, if we see sin as Hell wearing an earthly mask, we will fly to the Father in fear.
~ Peter Kreeft,
[Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven]
Streams in The Desert
Eternal Glory Struggles
I endure all things for the sake of God’s own people; so that they also may obtain salvation…and with it eternal glory
~ 2 Tim 2:10
If Job could have known as he sat there in the ashes, bruising his heart on this problem of Providence that in the trouble that had come upon him he was doing what one man may do to work out the problem for the world, he might again have taken courage. No man lives to himself. Job’s life is but your life and mine written in larger text….So, then, though we may not know what trials wait on any of us, we can believe that, as the days in which Job wrestled with his dark maladies are the only days that make him worth remembrance, and but for which his name had never been written in the book of life, so the days through which we struggle, finding no way, but never losing the light, will be the most significant we are called to live.
~ Robert Collyer
Who does not know that our most sorrowful days have been amongst our best? When the face is wreathed in smiles and we trip lightly over meadows bespangled with spring flowers, the heart is often running to waste.
The soul which is always blithe and gay misses the deepest life. It has its reward, and it is satisfied to its measure, though that measure is a very scanty one. But the heart is dwarfed; and the nature, which is capable of the highest heights, the deepest depths, is undeveloped; and life presently burns down to its socket without having known the resonance of the deepest chords of joy.
“Blessed are they that mourn.” Stars shine brightest in the long dark night of winter. The gentians show their fairest bloom amid almost inaccessible heights of snow and ice.
God’s promises seem to wait for the pressure of pain to trample out their richest juice as in a wine-press. Only those who have sorrowed know how tender is the “Man of Sorrows.”
~ Selected
Thou hast but little sunshine, but thy long glooms are wisely appointed thee; for perhaps a stretch of summer weather would have made thee as a parched land and barren wilderness. Thy Lord knows best, and He has the clouds and the sun at His disposal.
~ Selected
“It is a gray day.” “Yes, but dinna ye see the patch of blue?”
~ Scotch Shoemaker
