Daily Devotional & Other Inspirations

[Vine Abider]

38 minutes ago, farouk said:

Hi @Vine Abider There's a similar book - with the title, The Unshakable Kingdom, by David Gooding - which is a commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Thanks - found it on Amazon!

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Thanks - found it on Amazon!

@Vine Abider Oh it's on there, is it?

Often there's a really big selection on Amazon..........

[Vine Abider]

Yesterday evening's Daily Light devotional was AWESOME!  What a hope in us - He Himself is our exceedingly great reward!

Evening MARCH 3

The prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

You will have treasure in heaven;  come,
follow Me.  I am your exceedingly great
reward.

Well done, good and faithful servant; you were
faithful over: a few things, I will make you ruler
over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.
They shall reign forever and ever.

You will receive the crown of glory that does
not fade away. The crown of life. The crown
of righteousness.  An imperishable crown.

Father, I desire that they also whom You gave
Me may be with Me where! am, that they may
behold My glory which You have given Me:  We
shall always be with the Lord.

For I consider that the sufferings of this pre-
sent time are not worthy to be compared with the

glory which shall be revealed in us.                _

PHIL. 3:14; Matt. 19:21; Gen. 15:1; Matt. 25:21; Rev. 22:5;
1 Pet. 5:4; James 1:12; 2 Tim. 4:8; Lear. 9:25;.John 17:24;
1 Thess. 4: 17; Rom. 8: 18

[farouk]

1 minute ago, Vine Abider said:

Yesterday evening's Daily Light devotional was AWESOME!  What a hope in us - He Himself is our exceedingly great reward!

Evening MARCH 3

The prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus

You will have treasure in heaven;  come,
follow Me.  I am your exceedingly great
reward.

Well done, good and faithful servant; you were
faithful over: a few things, I will make you ruler
over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.
They shall reign forever and ever.

You will receive the crown of glory that does
not fade away. The crown of life. The crown
of righteousness.  An imperishable crown.

Father, I desire that they also whom You gave
Me may be with Me where! am, that they may
behold My glory which You have given Me:  We
shall always be with the Lord.

For I consider that the sufferings of this pre-
sent time are not worthy to be compared with the

glory which shall be revealed in us.                _

PHIL. 3:14; Matt. 19:21; Gen. 15:1; Matt. 25:21; Rev. 22:5;
1 Pet. 5:4; James 1:12; 2 Tim. 4:8; Lear. 9:25;.John 17:24;
1 Thess. 4: 17; Rom. 8: 18

@Vine Abider Oh I loved Daily Light! I used it for years............

[Vine Abider]

17 minutes ago, farouk said:

@Vine Abider Oh I loved Daily Light! I used it for years............

Do you use another devotional now?

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Do you use another devotional now?

I think it was issued by the De Haan Daily Bread series...

[Vine Abider]

1 hour ago, farouk said:

I think it was issued by the De Haan Daily Bread series...

I see. I use the paper Daily Light version.  Some in my fellowship do the online/app thing.

[farouk]

12 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

I see. I use the paper Daily Light version.  Some in my fellowship do the online/app thing.

@Vine Abider Oh, we usually use a hard copy of whatever devotional we are going through......

[Vine Abider]

What a strong word on legalism vs grace!

March 6   Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. (Galatians 5:1 NLT) Legalism always crucifies Christ afresh because legalism cuts out the greatest word in Christianity. The word over the door into true Christianity is the word: "Grace." Legalism always wipes out "Grace," and puts in its place "Law." Grace is the chief word in the vocabulary of the Christian. Do you notice that where legalism reaches its fullest expression, it always puts the crucifix in the place of the empty tomb? The badge of the Christian is the empty tomb. That is "Life from the dead." The badge of legalism is a crucifix, "a dead Christ." Legalism always brings death, and the chief thing about Christ is resurrection. It is Life from the dead. This was something that Paul came to see when it pleased God to reveal His Son in him. And he said, "Let me get out of all this legalistic system. Jesus of Nazareth Whom we crucified is alive. He has been revealed alive in my heart." If we really see the Lord Jesus, we shall be emancipated. Some of us have had that experience. We were in legal systems; our horizon was that system. Then the day came when the Lord opened our eyes to really see the significance of Christ. And that whole system fell away as being all nonsense. No, it is not our business to say, "Come out of this and that, and come into this other." The word "must" or "thou shall" does not belong to this realm. That belongs to the old legal realm. The "must" becomes a spiritual thing, not a legal thing. We could say of Paul, there was a mighty "must" in his spirit. "I have seen the Lord, and I am seeing more and more of what the Lord is, and this is creating in me this great imperative. 'This one thing I do, leaving the things which are behind, I press on toward the mark of the prize of the on-high calling.'" So we do not say, "Change your system." But we do say, "Ask the Lord to reveal His Son in you." Then the great work of emancipation will begin. By T. Austin-Sparks from: "That They May All Be One, Even As We Are One" - Meeting 29

[Vine Abider]

This today from "God is Enough" really impressed me!  This is the essence of the Christian life - we loose it all to gain everything in Him!  As Psalm 73:25-26 says: "Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

MARCH 11

LOSING ALL, POSSESSING ALL

The contrast between our things and God's things is very
striking. Our things all partake of the nature of "that which is not
bread" and "that which satisfieth not" (lsa. 55:2). They are of the
earth, earthy, and consequently cannot, in the very nature of things,
satisfy the spirit that is from heaven.

We must lay aside our own wisdom and righteousness in order
that Christ may be made wisdom and righteousness and sanc-
tification unto us (1 Cor. 1 :30). Practically, this means that if I want
righteousness of any kind I must not try to get a store of it laid up
within myself but must draw my supply of righteousness moment by
moment from the Lord as I need it.

The loss of all things meant to Paul the gain of all things (Phil.
3:8). The loss of the nest to the young eaglet who is just learning to
fly means the gain of the whole heavens for its home. The loss of our
own strength means the gaining of God's strength in its place; the
loss of our own wisdom means the gaining of God's wisdom; the loss
of our own life means the gaining of God's life. Who would not make
the exchange?

God declared to the tribe of Levi that He would be their
inheritance and would give them no possession in Israel. He said that
He would be their possession. Contrast His granting them no
possession with His declaration that He would be their possession,
and you will get a faint glimpse of what it means to have nothing yet
possess all things (cf. 2 Cor. 6:10). (EDR, 124-29)