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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 4:53:17 GMT -5
SPEAK OUT FOR JESUS
"We should all write, speak, and preach for our Lord Jesus far more powerfully if our love to the Lord were a passion so dominant as to make the great realities of eternity vividly real and supremely commanding in our minds."
GLORIFY GOD WHERE YOU ARE
God arranged your circumstances such that "you are in the position in which you can best display the wisdom and the grace of God."
PLEASING GOD
"Do you want to give God something that is sure to please Him? What would God my Father like me to give? He answers, 'My son, give me your heart.' He will be pleased with that, for He Himself seeks the gift."
-C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 4:53:53 GMT -5
PRAYER - FOR HELP TO PRAY
In Dr. Ryland's memoir of Andrew Fuller is the following anecdote: At a conference at Soham, a friend of slender abilities being asked to pray, knelt down, and Mr. Fuller and the company with him, when he found himself so embarrassed, that , whispering to Mr. Fuller, he said, "I do not know how to go on."
Mr. Fuller replied in a whisper, "Tell the Lord so." The rest of the company did not hear what passed between them, but the man taking Mr. Fuller's advice began to confess his not knowing how to pray as he ought to pray, begging to be taught how to pray, and so proceeded in prayer to the satisfaction of all the company.
-C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 9:55:33 GMT -5
THE BANNER OF JESUS CHRIST
"If you wear the livery of Christ, you will find Him so meek and lowly of heart, that you will find rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous of Captains. There never was His like among the choicest of princes.
He is always to be found in the thickest part of the battle. When the wind blows cold, He always takes the bleak side of the hill. The heaviest end of the cross lies ever on His shoulders. If He bids us carry a burden, He carries it also.
If there is anything that is gracious, generous, kind and tender, yea lavish and superabundant in love, you always find it in Him. His service is life, peace and joy. Oh, that you would enter on it at once! God help you to enlist under the banner of JESUS CHRIST!"
- C. H. Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 9:59:49 GMT -5
AFFLICTION - BLESSED
"The bow of trouble shot David like an arrow toward God! It is a blessed thing when the waves of affliction wash us upon the rock of confidence in God alone, when darkness below gives us an eye to the light above.
AFFLICTION - ATTENDANT UPON HONOUR
When the Lord intends to lift His servants into a higher stage of spiritual life, He frequently sends them a severe trial; He makes His Jacobs to be prevailing princes, but He confers the honour after a night of wrestling, and accompanies it with a shrunken sinew. Be it so, who among us would wish to be deprived of the trials if they are the necessary attendants of spiritual advancement?
- C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 10:00:53 GMT -5
AFFLICTION - AWAKENING GRATITUDE
Afflictions when sanctified make us grateful for mercies, which before we treated with indifference. Even things which we loathed before, we shall learn to prize when in troubled circumstances. Sweet are the uses of adversity, and this among them - that it brings into proper estimation mercies before lightly esteemed.
AFFLICTION - AN INCENTIVE TO ZEAL
When our troubles are many, we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial and industry. But how often is it otherwise in better times! For then the joys and pleasures of this world make it hard for us to remember the world to come, and we sink into inglorious ease.
- C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 10:01:30 GMT -5
BELIEVING OUR LIVING
You cannot live without faith; for again and again we are told - "The just shall live by faith." Believing is our living, and we, therefore, need it always. And if God gives you great faith, my dear brother, you must expect great trials; for, in proportion as your faith shall grow, you will have to do more, and endure more.
Little boats may keep close to shore, as becomes little boats; but if God makes you a great vessel, and loads you with a rich freight, He means that you should know what great billows are, and should feel their fury till you see "His wonders in the deep."
- C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Aug 21, 2006 10:02:16 GMT -5
CHASTISEMENT - PROOF OF LOVE
Mr. Rutherford, writing to a lady who had lost five children and her husband, says to her, "Oh, how Christ must love you! He would take every bit of your heart to Himself. He would not permit you to reserve any of your soul for any earthly thing." Can we stand that test? Can we let all go for His sake?
CHRIST THE WAY
During a revival in a church, a young man earnestly cried out to the minister,"Sir, can you tell me the way to Christ?" "No," was the answer, very deliberately given; "I cannot tell you the way to Christ." The young man answered,"I bed pardon; I thought you were a minister of the gospel." "So I am," was the reply. "How is it that you cannot tell me the way to Christ?" "My friend," said the minister, "there is no way to Christ. He is Himself the way. All who believe in Him are justified from all things. There is no way to Christ. Christ is here."
- C.H.Spurgeon Spurgeon's Sermon Illustrations edited by David O.Fuller
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