Consecration

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The Friend Closer Than A Brother Jul 29, 2022 It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps…
Know Your Audience Feb 8, 2022 People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. … If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives, Be kind anyway. … If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful…
Decompressing off The Battlefield Jun 21, 2018 Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. ~Ovid (43 b.c.-a.d. 17) Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For…
To Hell with The Lies Feb 16, 2018 Do not lose your temper with those who sin. Do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbor and judging it, as we usually do. Everyone will give an answer for himself before…
Instant Sense of Guidance Dec 10, 2017 Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap, and be faithful even unto death, who will lose their lives for Christ’s, flinging them away for love of him?…
The Day Trust Dies Aug 31, 2017 Whoever sincerely pronounces this prayer leaves his own will and puts all things in the will of God. But the will inspired by the demons consists is self-justification and trust in ourselves, and then they easily…
The Devil Is A Liar: Are You Listening? Aug 30, 2017 You can’t have any negative terminology about yourself. It’s not allowed! All negativity died on the Cross. It doesn’t belong in your life, and you get to have the joyful lifestyle of making war on all…
Requiem for A Reputation May 21, 2017 If we are wise, we will do what Jesus said: endure the cross and despise its shame for the joy that is set before us. To do this is to submit the whole pattern of our…
The Bondservant’s Advantage Apr 12, 2017 In what strange quarries and stoneyards the stones for the celestial wall are being hewn! Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride; deep in the darkness of crushed despair; in the fretting and dusty atmosphere of…
Yes, Sometimes We Are More Mature Than Others Feb 25, 2017 I am simply not mature enough to enter into true friendship unless I realize that I cannot judge the intention or motivation of another. I must be humble and sane enough to bow before the complexity…
Don’t Even Bring That Weak Stuff In Here Dec 21, 2016 Our reservations are the damnations of our consecrations. ~ William Booth (1829-1912) You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)…
The Beautiful Collision of Our Heart with G_d’s Aug 14, 2016 Can we see it? As our heart merges with the character He is inscribing on us and within us… This is the process of sanctification. For, as character and heart merge, we cement our destiny –…
The Dull Mediocrity of Pride Aug 5, 2016 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who…
Running out of Breath Jul 29, 2016 The philosophy of tough love is based on the conviction that no effective recovery can be initiated until a man admits that he is powerless over alcohol and that his life has become unmanageable. The alternative…
Becoming So Large That We Cannot Be Seen Jul 23, 2016 The man who gazes upon and contemplates day by day the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, and who has caught the glow of the reality that the Lord is not a theory but an indwelling…
Part 1 of 2: Time to Let Go: Wreckless Abandon Jul 3, 2016 The great word of Jesus to His disciples is Abandon. When God has brought us into the relationship of disciples, we have to venture on His word; trust entirely to Him and watch that when He…
Every Hair on Our Head Apr 24, 2016 We contradict the Lord to his face when we say: It is hard, it is difficult; we cannot, we are men; we are encompassed with fragile flesh. O blind madness! O unholy audacity! We charge the…
Utterly, Completely Done Jan 23, 2016 Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.~ Brennan Manning It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is…
Grace upon Grace: The Astounding Power of G_d to Save Dec 2, 2015 The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of…
Communion Oct 26, 2015 (In the context of finding yourself deeply in Love with Jesus, and completely at peace…) Laying aside the possibility that you are enjoying the wonders of having gone stark raving mad, I would surmise that you…
Our Fear of Freedom Oct 7, 2015 Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus Christ Himself can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false…
The Consuming Fire of A Father’s Love Oct 3, 2015 … a repost on the consuming Love of God.When (the Scripture) says that God loves man, it means that God loves man: not that He has some ‘disinterested’, because really indifferent, concern for our welfare, but…
Living AAA-o Jun 10, 2015 “Anything, Anytime, Anywhere – Bar Nothing”~ Slogan of the 39th Infantry Regiment, US ARMY You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in…
Separation And Restoration May 27, 2015 We have not to do with a God who is off there above the sky, who can deal with us only through the violation of physical law. We have instead a God in whom we live…
The Velvet Chisel Feb 25, 2015 Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.~Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- ) Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we…
A Beautiful Death… Consecration Feb 12, 2015 Death is only painful to him who resists it. The imagination exaggerates its terrors. The spirit argues endlessly to show the propriety of the life of self. Self-love fights against death, like a sick man in…
A Pragmatic Grace Nov 5, 2014 A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.~Martin Luther (1483-1546) So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a…
All of You, His Aug 25, 2014 It is the great moment of our lives when we decide that sin must die right out, not be curbed or suppressed or counteracted, but crucified. — Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) Finally then, brethren, we urge and…
When Division Brings Healing Aug 13, 2014 God never develops one part of our being at the expense of the other; spirit, soul, and body are kept in harmony.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if…
Life on A Very Narrow Way Aug 3, 2014 Consecration is the narrow, lonely way to overflowing love. We are not called upon to live long on this planet, but we are called upon to be holy at any and every cost. If obedience costs…
Christ Our Life Aug 3, 2014 All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin,…
The Resting of Obedience Jun 8, 2014 How shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest; there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half that Is withheld.…
Sanctification – Learning to Believe Sep 8, 2013 To be another than I am, I must abandon that which I am.~Saint John Chrysostom (c. 347-407)…I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according…
Expanding Eternity Jul 11, 2013 Winning—for all eternity—is about letting Me have total control. It is admitting that you need Me, and then trusting Me to lead you.~ Sarah Young speaking of JesusNow a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples…
Fully Committed to His Goodness. Nov 24, 2012 A man can’t always be defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident…
Wholly Other Than Mar 7, 2012 The Christian soon learns that if he would be victorious as a son of heaven among men on earth he must not follow the common pattern of mankind, but rather the contrary. That he may be…
δουλος Χριστου Ιησου (Bondservant of Christ) Jan 23, 2012 Whom do you think Paul was talking to when he said, “We are fools for the sake of Jesus Christ, and you are wise in Jesus Christ.” To you! Not to the people who do not…
A Call to Arise! Apr 25, 2011 C. H. Spurgeon was to nineteenth-century England what D. L Moody was to America. Although Spurgeon never attended theological school, by the age of twenty-one he was the most popular preacher in London. And quite simply,…