SERMON
2-25-07
SERVING
All across America amateur weather observers cooperate with the National Weather Service by providing information on daily weather conditions in local areas. Some years ago the White House honored a Nebraska farmer, Edward H. Stoll, who recorded daily weather conditions for seventy-four years. This is what Stoll said: "You owe service to somebody else, not just yourself. Service is the rent that you pay for the space that you occupy as you go through life."
YESTERDAY I WAS THINKING EARLY IN THE DAY WHAT I SHOULD DO ---- HOW I COULD PLEASE HIM (GOD)TODAY
1. GO TO THE JAIL AND VISIT WITH AN EX-EMPLOYEE
Matt 25:31-46
31 The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations
"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'
37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
41 "Then He will also say to those on the left hand,'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'
44 "Then they also will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' 45 Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
NKJV
2. GO TO THE NURSING HOME AND VISIT WITH ONE OF OUR CONGREGATION
James 1:26-27
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
NKJV
HERE I AM THINKING ABOUT HOW IT IS THAT I MIGHT BE A BLESSING IN SOME "MAJOR" WAY TO GOD AND HIS KINGDOM AND MY WIFE HAS THE AUDACITY TO ASK ME TO TAKE THE TIRE FROM HER BAD BOY BUGGY OFF AND TAKE IT IN AND GET IT FIXED --- I KEPT MY FRUSTRATION TO MYSELF (A MIRACLE IN ITSELF) AND FED THE ANIMALS THEN TOOK THE TIRE OFF AND TOOK IT IN TO GET FIXED --- AS I WAS DRIVING THRU THE GATE ON THE WAY OUT WITH THE TIRE I FELT LIKE GOD MINISTERED TO ME --- THIS IS WHAT I WANTED YOU TO DO FOR ME --- AND LATER THIS SCRIPTURE CAME TO MY MIND
2 Kings 5:1-14
2 Kings 5
5:1 Naaman's Leprosy Healed
Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman's wife. 3 Then she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy." 4 And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel."
5 Then the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."
So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said,
Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."
8 So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."
9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha's house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times , and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean." 11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, "Indeed, I said to myself, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.' 12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" 14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
NKJV
I AM PRONE TO MISS HIM IN THE SIMPLICITY OF LIFE --- I USUALLY THINK IN TERMS OF SAVING AFRICA RATHER THAN HELPING MY WIFE
Matt 20:20-28
Greatness Is Serving IN OBEDIENCE
Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.
21 And He said to her, "What do you wish?"
She said to Him, "Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom."
22 But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
They said to Him, "We are able."
23 So He said to them, "You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father."
24 And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. 25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave — 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
NKJV
In the heart of Cartagena, Colombia, stands the church of San Pedro Claver, his bones enshrined beneath the altar. Once Cartagena was the largest slave market in the world. That was when Father Claver came to care for the sick, and to teach and baptize. He called himself the "slave of slaves."
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD THING TO GO SEE THE PRISONER --- EVEN ACCORDING TO THE WORD --- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD THING TO GO SEE THE LADY IN THE REST HOME --- EVEN ACCORDING TO THE WORD --- BUT IT WAS A BETTER THING TO LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BE A “SLAVE” IN OBEDIENCE TO THE STILL SMALL VOICE
1 Kings 19:11-13
11 God's Revelation to Elijah
Then He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
NKJV
The day of small things can become the life of biggest and best things. A small word spoken at the right time may set a whole life straight. A gentle smile may brighten the way for the man with a heavy load. The small bit of time with the Book and the knee bent will hallow the day's task. The still, small voice listened to may turn the world's tide. "The small in God's hand becomes big."
-- A. J. Gordon in The Bent-Knee Time
EVEN JESUS HAD TO LEARN OBEDIENCE
Heb 5:7-11
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek,"
NKJV
BETTER TO FOLLOW THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS STILL SMALL VOICE THAN TO OFFER GOD A SACRIFICE OF WORKS
1 Sam 15:10-23
10 Saul Rejected as King
Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, 11 "I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments." And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night. 12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal." 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him,"Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD."
14 But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
15 And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Be quiet! And I will tell you what the LORD said to me last night."
And he said to him, "Speak on."
17 So Samuel said,"When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel? 18 Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?"
20 And Saul said to Samuel,"But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."
22 So Samuel said:
"Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,As in obeying the voice of the LORD?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,He also has rejected you from being king."
NKJV
IT IS MUCH BETTER TO LISTEN AND OBEY THAN TO OFFER UP THE MIGHTIEST SACRIFICE TO THE LORD --- DOES HE NOT ALREADY OWN THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS --- HOW THEN WILL HE BE IMPRESSED BY YOUR SACRIFICE --- NO MATTER HOW GREAT IN THE EYES OF MEN
When local magistrates sentenced [John] Bunyan to imprisonment unless he promised them he would not preach, he refused, declaring that he would remain in prison till the moss grew on his eyelids rather than fail to do what God had commanded him to do.
Deut 28:1-2
28:1 Blessings on Obedience
(Lev 26:1-13; Deut 7:12-24)
"Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
NKJV
BETTER TO SERVE YOUR WIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD THAN VISITING ALL THE WIDOWS AND PRISONERS IN THIS VAIN WORLD UNLESS DIRECTED BY THE LORD
More spiritual progress can be made in one short moment of speechless silence in the awesome presence of God than in years of mere study.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Prostrate before thy throne to lie,
And gaze and gaze on thee!
Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
Silent worship seems to “Friends” (QUAKERS) to be their natural method. It is healing; it is uniting; it cleanses, challenges, stimulates. It helps us to get down to those deeper currents of the soul that are so often neglected in life's hurry and bustle; it enables us to center down into fellowship with the Eternal and to hear the still small voice of God.
Gerald K. Hibbert (1872-1957)
2-25-07
SERVING
All across America amateur weather observers cooperate with the National Weather Service by providing information on daily weather conditions in local areas. Some years ago the White House honored a Nebraska farmer, Edward H. Stoll, who recorded daily weather conditions for seventy-four years. This is what Stoll said: "You owe service to somebody else, not just yourself. Service is the rent that you pay for the space that you occupy as you go through life."
YESTERDAY I WAS THINKING EARLY IN THE DAY WHAT I SHOULD DO ---- HOW I COULD PLEASE HIM (GOD)TODAY
1. GO TO THE JAIL AND VISIT WITH AN EX-EMPLOYEE
Matt 25:31-46
31 The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations
"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.'
37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
41 "Then He will also say to those on the left hand,'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'
44 "Then they also will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?' 45 Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
NKJV
2. GO TO THE NURSING HOME AND VISIT WITH ONE OF OUR CONGREGATION
James 1:26-27
27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
NKJV
HERE I AM THINKING ABOUT HOW IT IS THAT I MIGHT BE A BLESSING IN SOME "MAJOR" WAY TO GOD AND HIS KINGDOM AND MY WIFE HAS THE AUDACITY TO ASK ME TO TAKE THE TIRE FROM HER BAD BOY BUGGY OFF AND TAKE IT IN AND GET IT FIXED --- I KEPT MY FRUSTRATION TO MYSELF (A MIRACLE IN ITSELF) AND FED THE ANIMALS THEN TOOK THE TIRE OFF AND TOOK IT IN TO GET FIXED --- AS I WAS DRIVING THRU THE GATE ON THE WAY OUT WITH THE TIRE I FELT LIKE GOD MINISTERED TO ME --- THIS IS WHAT I WANTED YOU TO DO FOR ME --- AND LATER THIS SCRIPTURE CAME TO MY MIND
2 Kings 5:1-14
2 Kings 5
5:1 Naaman's Leprosy Healed
Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. 2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman's wife. 3 Then she said to her mistress, "If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy." 4 And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, "Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel."
5 Then the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel."
So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing. 6 Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said,
Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.
7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me."
8 So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, "Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."
9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha's house. 10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go and wash in the Jordan seven times , and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean." 11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, "Indeed, I said to myself, 'He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.' 12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?" So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, "My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, 'Wash, and be clean'?" 14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
NKJV
I AM PRONE TO MISS HIM IN THE SIMPLICITY OF LIFE --- I USUALLY THINK IN TERMS OF SAVING AFRICA RATHER THAN HELPING MY WIFE
Matt 20:20-28
Greatness Is Serving IN OBEDIENCE
Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.
21 And He said to her, "What do you wish?"
She said to Him, "Grant that these two sons of mine may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on the left, in Your kingdom."
22 But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
They said to Him, "We are able."
23 So He said to them, "You will indeed drink My cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on My right hand and on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared by My Father."
24 And when the ten heard it, they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. 25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave — 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
NKJV
In the heart of Cartagena, Colombia, stands the church of San Pedro Claver, his bones enshrined beneath the altar. Once Cartagena was the largest slave market in the world. That was when Father Claver came to care for the sick, and to teach and baptize. He called himself the "slave of slaves."
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD THING TO GO SEE THE PRISONER --- EVEN ACCORDING TO THE WORD --- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD THING TO GO SEE THE LADY IN THE REST HOME --- EVEN ACCORDING TO THE WORD --- BUT IT WAS A BETTER THING TO LISTEN TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AND BE A “SLAVE” IN OBEDIENCE TO THE STILL SMALL VOICE
1 Kings 19:11-13
11 God's Revelation to Elijah
Then He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
NKJV
The day of small things can become the life of biggest and best things. A small word spoken at the right time may set a whole life straight. A gentle smile may brighten the way for the man with a heavy load. The small bit of time with the Book and the knee bent will hallow the day's task. The still, small voice listened to may turn the world's tide. "The small in God's hand becomes big."
-- A. J. Gordon in The Bent-Knee Time
EVEN JESUS HAD TO LEARN OBEDIENCE
Heb 5:7-11
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest "according to the order of Melchizedek,"
NKJV
BETTER TO FOLLOW THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS STILL SMALL VOICE THAN TO OFFER GOD A SACRIFICE OF WORKS
1 Sam 15:10-23
10 Saul Rejected as King
Now the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, 11 "I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments." And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night. 12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, "Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal." 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him,"Blessed are you of the LORD! I have performed the commandment of the LORD."
14 But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"
15 And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Be quiet! And I will tell you what the LORD said to me last night."
And he said to him, "Speak on."
17 So Samuel said,"When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel? 18 Now the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the LORD?"
20 And Saul said to Samuel,"But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."
22 So Samuel said:
"Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,As in obeying the voice of the LORD?Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,And to heed than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,He also has rejected you from being king."
NKJV
IT IS MUCH BETTER TO LISTEN AND OBEY THAN TO OFFER UP THE MIGHTIEST SACRIFICE TO THE LORD --- DOES HE NOT ALREADY OWN THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS --- HOW THEN WILL HE BE IMPRESSED BY YOUR SACRIFICE --- NO MATTER HOW GREAT IN THE EYES OF MEN
When local magistrates sentenced [John] Bunyan to imprisonment unless he promised them he would not preach, he refused, declaring that he would remain in prison till the moss grew on his eyelids rather than fail to do what God had commanded him to do.
Deut 28:1-2
28:1 Blessings on Obedience
(Lev 26:1-13; Deut 7:12-24)
"Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the LORD your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the LORD your God:
NKJV
BETTER TO SERVE YOUR WIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD THAN VISITING ALL THE WIDOWS AND PRISONERS IN THIS VAIN WORLD UNLESS DIRECTED BY THE LORD
More spiritual progress can be made in one short moment of speechless silence in the awesome presence of God than in years of mere study.
A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
Prostrate before thy throne to lie,
And gaze and gaze on thee!
Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
Silent worship seems to “Friends” (QUAKERS) to be their natural method. It is healing; it is uniting; it cleanses, challenges, stimulates. It helps us to get down to those deeper currents of the soul that are so often neglected in life's hurry and bustle; it enables us to center down into fellowship with the Eternal and to hear the still small voice of God.
Gerald K. Hibbert (1872-1957)
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