Todays scripture...

[BFORSE]

While I prefer hard copy books, I'm starting to us on-line tools, such as https://www.blueletterbible.org/ for digging deeper into meaning and www.biblegateway.com more as a concordance.

Thanks for those resources Steve.
I use Biblegateway regularly because you can see other translations quickly and easily, but I am going to give Blueletterbible a look.

I haven’t used those but I’ll give them a try as well. I usually use http://biblehub.com/

[WillyCamaro]

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

I've always loved, and have been encouraged, by the word "power" when associated with the Holy Spirit and His work in me.
In the Greek, the word is dynamis, pronounced doo' nam is. It's where we get our word "dynamite" and "dynamic".
EXPLOSIVE DYNAMIC POWER!!!

That is great Steve.
I always love to dig deeper into the meaning of the words used in the Bible. Some of the guys I watch on Sunday morning on TV take the words from the Greek and Hebrew and give the DEEPER meaning of the word.
That is truly cool.....

Dang brothers, talk about growing the meaning of God's EXPLOSIVE DYNAMIC POWER!!!, for me.

[WillyCamaro]

While I prefer hard copy books, I'm starting to us on-line tools, such as https://www.blueletterbible.org/ for digging deeper into meaning and www.biblegateway.com more as a concordance.

Thanks for those resources Steve.
I use Biblegateway regularly because you can see other translations quickly and easily, but I am going to give Blueletterbible a look.

I haven’t used those but I’ll give them a try as well. I usually use http://biblehub.com/

Good stuff mates, BG is where i'm getting the daily verses from. Most excellent resources.

[Meridian_Mike]

Dang brothers, talk about growing the meaning of God's EXPLOSIVE DYNAMIC POWER!!!, for me.

That is what God's children should be doing for each other.
We are happy to be able to help Brother!

[WillyCamaro]

Dang brothers, talk about growing the meaning of God's EXPLOSIVE DYNAMIC POWER!!!, for me.

That is what God's children should be doing for each other.
We are happy to be able to help Brother!

You got it mate!
Paul chastises us, for quarrelling over the small things; all while we should be helping each other in the walk.

Get back to the Word folks! Enough with the gmo, sabbath; oh, you don't go to are church (building)... In the end, all that matters is the Truth, the Gospel, the Word of God.
Don't blow up, and let the small things divide the body.

I sure do hate it when verses are taken out of context, everybody gets confused.

[WillyCamaro]

Psalm 121:7-8
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

[WillyCamaro]

Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Such a beautiful scripture, one of my favorites...

[WillyCamaro]

Psalm 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

[WillyCamaro]

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

[Steve Warden]

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

I saw that one on Biblegateway.com earlier today.
I'm praying about basing this Sunday's message around it.
Such encouragement.

[Meridian_Mike]

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

I saw that one on Biblegateway.com earlier today.
I'm praying about basing this Sunday's around it.
Such encouragement.

I totally agree!
That is a powerful promise from God!

[WillyCamaro]

2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

I saw that one on Biblegateway.com earlier today.
I'm praying about basing this Sunday's around it.
Such encouragement.

I totally agree!
That is a powerful promise from God!

Yesir gents, I couldn't agree more.

[WillyCamaro]

"Get thee up into the high mountain."
Isaiah 40:9

Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain. Climb the first rising knoll, and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; till at last, when you are on the summit, and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all England lying before you. Yonder is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you, and you say, "I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation." Now, the Christian life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ we see but little of him. The higher we climb the more we discover of his beauties. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ which passes knowledge? Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired, shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can, "I know whom I have believed," for each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the whole of the faithfulness and the love of him to whom he had committed his soul. Get thee up, dear friend, into the high mountain.

Charles Spuregon

[WillyCamaro]

"The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot."
Genesis 8:9

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of his preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it forever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God--your God--is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of him. We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on him your soul can sing, "He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle's," but if you have him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!"

Charles Spuregon

[Meridian_Mike]

Thanks for posting those Willy!!!

[WillyCamaro]

"Looking unto Jesus."
Hebrews 12:2

It is ever the Holy Spirit's work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan's work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, "Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of his children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus." All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: he tells us that we are nothing, but that "Christ is all in all." Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee--it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument--it is Christ's blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by "looking unto Jesus." Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to him; when thou liest down at night look to him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail thee.

"My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus' blood and righteousness:

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

But wholly lean on Jesus' name."

[WillyCamaro]

It's my pleasure brother Mike.
I'm just super glad Mr. Spurgeon writings are as lifing to you, as they have been to me...
God bless brother.

[WillyCamaro]

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

[Meridian_Mike]

I'm just super glad Mr. Spurgeon writings are as lifing to you, as they have been to me...
God bless brother.

And thanks for that Charles Spurgeon devotion you posted above.
His devotions are so very uplifting.
I am REALLY enjoying Charles Spurgeon's writings you are posting!

In light of what is happening in America and all over the world, that shows us where our hope lies.
In Jesus!

Amen

[WillyCamaro]

I'm just super glad Mr. Spurgeon writings are as lifing to you, as they have been to me...
God bless brother.

And thanks for that Charles Spurgeon devotion you posted above.
His devotions are so very uplifting.
I am REALLY enjoying Charles Spurgeon's writings you are posting!

In light of what is happening in America and all over the world, that shows us where our hope lies.
In Jesus!

Amen

[WillyCamaro]

"Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."
1 Thessalonians 4:14

Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise," is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising him day and night in his temple, singing hallelujahs to him who washed them from their sins in his blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the thought which the Spirit of God would convey to us. Sleep makes each night a Sabbath for the day. Sleep shuts fast the door of the soul, and bids all intruders tarry for a while, that the life within may enter its summer garden of ease. The toil-worn believer quietly sleeps, as does the weary child when it slumbers on its mother's breast. Oh! happy they who die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. Their quiet repose shall never be broken until God shall rouse them to give them their full reward. Guarded by angel watchers, curtained by eternal mysteries, they sleep on, the inheritors of glory, till the fulness of time shall bring the fulness of redemption. What an awaking shall be theirs! They were laid in their last resting place, weary and worn, but such they shall not rise. They went to their rest with the furrowed brow, and the wasted features, but they wake up in beauty and glory. The shrivelled seed, so destitute of form and comeliness, rises from the dust a beauteous flower. The winter of the grave gives way to the spring of redemption and the summer of glory. Blessed is death, since it, through the divine power, disrobes us of this work-day garment, to clothe us with the wedding garment of incorruption. Blessed are those who "sleep in Jesus."

Charles Spurgeon

[WillyCamaro]

Psalm 138:8
The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

[Meridian_Mike]

AMEN!!

[TPK]

[Steve Warden]

Whatcha ponderin', Tom?