Prayers&Devotionals
Our God is on Our Side
”Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh–is there anything too hard for me?” –Jer. 32:26, 27
“The believer has nothing to do in his religious life with anything, as his guide and directory, except with the Word of the Lord. Not with the [...]
Oh for Continual Repentance
Continual Repentance
O God of grace, Thou hast imputed my sin to my substitute, and hast imputed his righteousness to my soul, clothing me with a bridegroom’s robe, decking me with jewels of holiness. But in my Christian walk I am still in rags; my best prayers are stained with sin; my penitential tears are so [...]
Today we remember, God Bless America
Today we remember…May God richly bless those that serve and watch over us; may those that have suffered loss be honored and remembered for their sacrifice; may civility reign today as we honor and remember the events of 9-11 with sadness, regret, honor, dignity and thankfulness for our country and our safety for the last [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Hear My Cry, O God”
Heavenly Notes
Title: “Hear My Cry, O God”
Author: Henry Law
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“Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto Thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower [...]
“Think the Thoughts of God”
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
Isaiah 58:8
“I have often listened to Christian people who are in some perplexity and even as they have been stating their problem, I have realized that their trouble was wholly due to the fact that they had dropped back to the [...]
“How To Spend The Day With God”
Title: ”HOW TO SPEND THE DAY WITH GOD”
Author: Richard Baxter (1615-1691) [adapted and updated by Matthew Vogan]
“This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalm 118:24
A holy life is inclined to be made easier when we know the usual sequence and method of our duties – with everything [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Who Hath Engaged His Heart?
Let us delight in prayer. God loves a cheerful giver in alms, and a cheerful petitioner in prayer. God would have his children free with him. He takes special notice of a spiritual frame, “who hath engaged his heart?” Jer. 30:21. The more delight we have in God, the more delight he will have in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )“Friendly Friends” & Cultivating Friendship
Heavenly Notes
“Friendly Friends”
JacyJoyPals
Friendship ought to be mutual and reciprocal…
Teaching our children about friendship is an extremely important part of our training our children in righteousness, proper manners/decorum, giving, sharing, love and respect. We train them to love and obey God and their parents, to love their siblings, friends and neighbors. We teach them to love [...]
“Man’s Happiness is God Himself”
Heavenly Notes
JacyJoypals
June 2009
“Because your loving-kindness is better than life, My lips will praise You.” Psalm 63:3
The truth of God’s Word teaches us that Christ and Christ alone, is “better than life.” For believers, the thought of life without Christ is unbearable and impossible to conceive. He is our life, our hope, our salvation and we [...]
Divine Mission and Sonship
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” –1 Peter 1:3 “The resurrection of Jesus Christ was God’s grand attestation to the truth of his divine mission and Sonship, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )An Elect Child Justified
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Rom 8:33
”How may I know I have understood the gospel and that I am elect?
First, by the Word of God having come in divine power to the soul so that my self-complacency is shattered and my self-righteousness is renounced.
Second, by the Holy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Pleasures of Refined Society
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant…”
Song of Solomon 1:16a
WE love Him because He first loved us; we presume to call Him our beloved, because He first calls us His love. It is much for such unworthy creatures to have the right of saying this; much to have the feelings and desires which prompt [...]
Where is your God, my boy?
Where is your God, my boy?
(J. C. Ryle, “The Real Presence”)
“Where is your God, my boy?” said an infidel to a child whom he saw coming out of a church. “Where is your God, about whom you have been reading? Show Him to me, and I will give you a treat!” “Show me where He [...]
Rejoicing in God’s Sovereignty
HEAVENLY NOTES
Title: “Do you rejoice in God’s Sovereignty?”
Author: JoyPals.com-ReformedWomen
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“The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens; and His Kingdom ruleth over all.”
Psalm 103:19
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I believe nothing rejoices and comforts the heart more than the doctrine of God’s sovereignty. When we rest in Christ and His work of redemption for us, we are at peace. He [...]
“Love’s Last Letter”
HEAVENLY NOTES
Title: “Love’s Last Letter”
Author: Christopher Love
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“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these [...]
Christ, “The Gospel Way”
THE GOSPEL WAY
Blessed Lord Jesus,
No human mind could conceive or invent
the gospel.
Acting in eternal grace, thou art both
its messenger and its message,
lived out on earth through infinite compassion,
applying thy life to insult, injury, death,
that I might be redeemed, ransomed, freed.
Blessed be thou, O Father, for contriving this way,
Eternal thanks to [...]
Earth and Heaven
Earth and Heaven
O Lord,
I live here as a fish in a vessel of water,
only enough to keep me alive,
but in heaven I shall swim in the ocean.
Here I have a little air in me to keep me breathing,
but there I shall have sweet and fresh gales;
Here I have a beam of sun to lighten my [...]
“Lovely Light Beams”
“Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.” Psalm 119:18
“Lovely light may beam upon us, and wondrous scenes surround; but the gain is none if sightless eyes survey. By nature we are thus blind: unless God grants sight, we cannot behold the wonders which His law contains. Let us [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Author and Finisher of our Faith
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12:2
Be careful of making a savior of faith. There is a danger, and it cannot be too vigilantly guarded against, of substituting the work of the Spirit for the work of Christ; this mistake it is that leads so many of God’s saints to [...]
Freedom
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32
O Holy Father, thou hast freely given thy Son,
O Divine Son, thou hast freely paid my debt,
O Eternal Spirit, thou hast freely bid me come,
O Triune God, thou dost freely grace me with salvation.
Prayers and tears could not suffice to pardon [...]
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