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"math boy" |
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06 Dec 2003 03:51:00 PM |
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Devotionals |
I just hit the devotional for December 6th by pure chance today. I
compleately forgot to check them out for some time. The devotional is
located on Logos 2.0 bible software (don't know if it's the same in later
versions)
Below there is a copy but don't read it unless you are unable to find the
software.
One more strange thing about it: In my dream I was cutting small boards with
a hand saw for a girl that resemble Alexandria (?), the chess teacher
appeared in TV not long ago. She was happily jumping up and down on a bed
like a child but she wasn't a child, she was like an 18 or 20 years old
girl. I asked her what size she wanted the board to be cut and she kind of
didn't care about it, kept on jumping and said "I don't know! Make it 2 or 4
inches" then she goes "I want to live just like Jesus".
Strange dreams guys, strange dreams.
Evening, December 5
"And the Lord shewed me four carpenters."
- Zechariah 1:20
In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible
horns. They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest
and the mightiest; and the prophet asked, "What are these?" The answer was,
"These are the horns which have scattered Israel." He saw before him a
representation of those powers which had oppressed the church of God. There
were four horns; for the church is attacked from all quarters. Well might
the prophet have felt dismayed; but on a sudden there appeared before him
four carpenters. He asked, "What shall these do?" These are the men whom God
hath found to break those horns in pieces. God will always find men for his
work, and he will find them at the right time. The prophet did not see the
carpenters first, when there was nothing to do, but first the "horns," and
then the "carpenters." Moreover, the Lord finds enough men. He did not find
three carpenters, but four; there were four horns, and there must be four
workmen. God finds the right men; not four men with pens to write; not four
architects to draw plans; but four carpenters to do rough work. Rest
assured, you who tremble for the ark of God, that when the "horns" grow
troublesome, the "carpenters" will be found. You need not fret concerning
the weakness of the church of God at any moment; there may be growing up in
obscurity the valiant reformer who will shake the nations: Chrysostoms may
come forth from our Ragged Schools, and Augustines from the thickest
darkness of London's poverty. The Lord knows where to find his servants. He
hath in ambush a multitude of mighty men, and at his word they shall start
up to the battle; "for the battle is the Lord's," and he shall get to
himself the victory. Let us abide faithful to Christ, and he, in the right
time, will raise up for us a defence, whether it be in the day of our
personal need, or in the season of peril to his Church.
Evening December 6
"Girt about the paps with a golden girdle."
- Revelation 1:13
"One like unto the Son of Man" appeared to John in Patmos, and the beloved
disciple marked that he wore a girdle of gold. A girdle, for Jesus never was
ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for service, and now before
the eternal throne he stays not is holy ministry, but as a priest is girt
about with "the curious girdle of the ephod." Well it is for us that he has
not ceased to fulfil his offices of love for us, since this is one of our
choicest safeguards that he ever liveth to make intercession for us. Jesus
is never an idler; his garments are never loose as though his offices were
ended; he diligently carries on the cause of his people. A golden girdle, to
manifest the superiority of his service, the royalty of his person, the
dignity of his state, the glory of his reward. No longer does he cry out of
the dust, but he pleads with authority, a King as well as a Priest. Safe
enough is our cause in the hands of our enthroned Melchizedek.
Our Lord presents all his people with an example. We must never unbind our
girdles. This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the season of
service and warfare. We need to bind the girdle of truth more and more
tightly around our loins. It is a golden girdle, and so will be our richest
ornament, and we greatly need it, for a heart that is not well braced up
with the truth as it is in Jesus, and with the fidelity which is wrought of
the Spirit, will be easily entangled with the things of this life, and
tripped up by the snares of temptation. It is in vain that we possess the
Scriptures unless we bind them around us like a girdle, surrounding our
entire nature, keeping each part of our character in order, and giving
compactness to our whole man. If in heaven Jesus unbinds not the girdle,
much less may we upon earth. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth.
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| User: "math boy" |
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| Title: Re: Devotionals |
06 Dec 2003 04:44:33 PM |
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One more thing about Alexandria is that we were in a school and she was
jumping behind a few school desks while I was cutting down to the floor so I
would see her head on an off. Beside I had this dream one day before she
appeared in TV.
This part is from the same software and came up with a wrong mouse click
while I was closing it.
The past is past. We have to look at the future.
King James Version
to the most high and mighty prince
James
by the Grace of God,
King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland
Defender of the Faith, &c.
The Translators of the Bible wish Grace, Mercy, and Peace through Jesus
Christ our Lord
Great and manifold were the blessings, most dread Sovereign, which Almighty
God, the Father of all mercies, bestowed upon us the people of England, when
first he sent Your Majesty's Royal Person to rule and reign over us. For
whereas it was the expectation of many, who wished not well upon our Sion,
that upon the setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth of
most happy memory, some thick and palpable clouds of darkness would so have
overshadowed this Land, that men should have been in doubt which way they
were to walk; and that it should hardly be known, who was to direct the
unsettled State; the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun in his
strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists, and gave
unto all that were well affected exceeding cause of comfort; especially when
we beheld the Government established in Your Highness, and Your hopeful
Seed, by an undoubted Title, and this also accompanied with peace and
tranquility at home and abroad.
But among all our joys, there was no one that more filled our hearts, than
the blessed continuance of the preaching of God's sacred Word among us;
which is that inestimable treasure, which excelleth all the riches of the
earth; because the fruit thereof extendeth itself, not only to the time pent
in this transitory world, but directeth and disposeth men unto that eternal
happiness which is above in heaven.
Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and
to continue it in that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your
Highness did leave it: nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution
of a Man in maintaining the truth about Christ, and propagating it far and
near, is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your
Majesty's loyal and religious people unto You, that Your very name is
precious among them: their eye doth behold You with comfort,and they bless
You in their hearts,as that sanctified Person who, under God, is the
immediate author of their true happiness. And this their contentment doth
not diminish or decay, but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when
they observe, that the zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not
slack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself
abroad in the farthest parts of Christendom, by writing in defence of the
truth, (which hath given such a blow unto that man of sin, as will not be
healed), and every day at home, by religious and learned discourse, by
frequenting the house of God, by hearing the Word preached, by cherishing
the Teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, as a most tender and loving
nursing Father.
There are infinite arguments of this right Christian and Religious affection
in Your Majesty but none is more forcible to declare it to others than the
vehement and perpetuated desire of the accomplishing and publishing of this
work, which now with all humility we present unto Your Majesty. For when
Your Highness had once out of deep judgment apprehended how convenient it
was, that out of the Original Sacred Tongues, together with comparing of the
labors, both in our own, and other foreign Languages of many worthy men who
went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy
Scriptures into the English Tongue; Your Majesty did never desist to urge
and to excite those to whom it was commended, that the work might be
hastened, and that the business might be expedited in so decent a manner, as
a matter of such importance might justly require.
And now at last, by the mercy of God, and the continuance of our labors, it
being brought unto such a conclusion, as that we have great hopes that the
Church of England shall reap good fruit thereby; we hold it our duty to
offer it to Your Majesty, not only as to our King and Sovereign, but as to
the principal Mover and Author of the work: humbly craving of Your most
Sacred Majesty, that since things of this quality have ever been subject to
the censures of ill meaning and discontented persons, it may receive
approbation and patronage from so learned and judicious a Prince as Your
Highness is, whose allowance and acceptance of our labors shall more honor
and encourage us, than all the calumniations and hard interpretations of
other men shall dismay us. So that if, on the one side, we shall be traduced
by Popish persons at home or abroad, who therefore will malign us, because
we are poor instruments to make God's holy Truth to be yet more and more
known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and
darkness; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by self-conceited
Brethren, who run their own ways, and give liking unto nothing, but what is
framed by themselves, and hammered on their anvil; we may rest secure,
supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having
walked the ways of simplicity and integrity, as before the Lord; and
sustained without, by the powerful protection of Your Majesty's grace and
favor, which will ever give countenance to honest and Christian endeavours
against bitter censures and uncharitable imputations.
The Lord of Heaven and earth bless Your Majesty with many and happy days,
that, as his heavenly hand hath enriched Your Highness with many singular
and extraordinary graces, so You may be the wonder of the world in this
latter age for happiness and true felicity, to the honor that Great God, and
the good of his Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour.
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