Draw me! We will run after you! The king brings me into his apartments! We will be glad and rejoice in you! We will recall [when we were favored with] your love, more fragrant than wine. The upright [are not offended at your choice, but sincerely] love you. Songs Of Solomon 1:4
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth. Psalm 105:5
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Do you want to launch this New Year with a better attitude? Be content, hopeful, optimistic, cheerful and refreshing to others, come what may? Do great things for Christ? Win souls? Reach teens? Care for an invalid or a bevy of preschoolers?
With God, nothing is impossible; and He can display His strength through you.
By ourselves, we cannot influence lives, overcome bad habits, build churches, convert souls, manage our tempers, appetites, or finances in a godly way. There’s nothing we can do for Christ in our own power.
But Jesus and us-well, that’s a different story. We can proclaim with Paul, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
Paul wasn’t talking about preaching to vast crowds, planting large churches, or wielding great influence, though God also allowed him to do those things. He was saying, “I can fulfill God’s will through Christ’s strength. I can do whatever He commands; indeed, I can even be content in chains.”
Impossible Quotes
This secret has fueled the lives of God’s workers in every generation. Thomas à Kempis, the medieval German monk, wrote, “O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace.”
Commentator Matthew Henry said, “In all conflicts, let us remember that with God nothing is impossible; and as we read and hear His promises, let us turn them into prayers.”
Missionary Amy Carmichael told her workers, “When you are facing the impossible, you can count on the God of the impossible.”
Missionary statesman J. Oswald Sanders, wrote, “(God) encourages us to ask as freely for the impossible as for the possible since to Him all difficulties are the same size-less than himself.”
Oswald Chambers wrote in My Utmost for His Highest, “When once we see Jesus, He does the impossible thing as naturally as breathing.”
The dean of American prayer writers, E. M. Bounds, wrote, “Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.”
Chuck Swindoll said, “The One who directed that stone in between Goliath’s eyes and split the Red Sea down the middle and leveled that wall around Jericho and brought His Son back from beyond takes delight in mixing up the odds as He alters the inevitable and bypasses the impossible.”
Evangelist Michael Guido preached, “You cannot bring a burden too heavy for God to lift or a problem too hard for Him to solve or a request too big for Him to answer. God does things no one else can do.”
Charles Spurgeon, the Victorian Prince of Preachers, once thundered from his pulpit, “When you are dealing with Him who is omnipotent, faithful, and true, the things that seem utterly impossible will be those most likely to happen.”
Charles Wesley, studying Abraham’s faith as described in Romans 4:13, wrote a hymn of eleven verses about it, the most popular stanza of which says:
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to (God) alone;
Laughs at life’s impossibilities,
And cries, “It shall be done!”
And listen to this quote by Warren Wiersbe: “Our faith is not really tested until God asks us to bear what seems unbearable, do what seems unreasonable, and expect what seems impossible.”
Take one of these “impossible quotes” and make it your slogan for the new year. Learn to leave room for God and to partner with Him, for He alone can storm the impregnable, devise the improbable, and perform the impossible.
“For with God…”
Perhaps you have a problem only God can solve, and this is the year to trust it into His super-capable hands. Or perhaps God has called you to begin a new ministry. Look for situations where you can have an impact. Look for lives you can influence. Seek out places where you can serve.
The word “impossible” isn’t found in heaven’s dictionaries. Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
He never gives in,
… we two shall win,
… Jesus and me.
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This article was excerpted from Turning Points, Dr. David Jeremiah’s devotional magazine. Call Turning Point at 1-800-947-1993 for your complimentary copy of Turning Points.
• Turning Point (Tuesday, January 01, 2008)
Thanks to LifeWithoutLimbs.org for this beautiful article!
Hello God’s beautiful people, I woke up this morning feeling so blessed, it was a feeling that regardless of what i’m going through or do go through things are going to be ok, and that no matter what happens, no matter what i think, no matter how bad or discouraged i feel things are going to get better. It came with a realisation that God is constantly getting involved in my life, teaching me, training me, helping daily to be who I was born to be.
heres some news, he is doing the same for you! He loves u so much its unbelievable, I mean why would a being so vast, his very speech could shake the whole earth give himself, make himself so small for a group of individuals who did not in any shape or form deserve it!
Here’s a message for two groups of people, if you’re a christian and you haven’t really been on the same page as God, guess what..he doesn’t love you any less! You just need to say sorry and get back with him, remember he loved you before you knew him.
If you’re not a christian he doesn’t love you any less, I mean he didn’t come to die because we where all good, he came to die because apart from that there would be no way for us to meet him and be friends with him again..dear reader, is the mighty God your friend today? You’re excited for christmas and all the gifts you will receive ? Dear reader question yourself today, are you as excited about God, and what he has don’e for you ? He has given you the greatest gift of all.
Anytime I meditate on what he has done for me, I cant help but admit how beautiful it all is! My friends, God is doing a work in your life and my life; a work so great, that we couldn’t even begin to imagine it. If you truly know him, and he has shown the reality of who he is in your life, then you should be as excited as I am, and you should understand my excitement and my joy. This is not just being happy, its joy, deep down in my soul, when i’m sad or glad, the joy remains. it’s not based on a condition or something happening, its from God and no one can take it from me, if you know God you should have this joy, because without it where is your strength coming from, as for me the joy of the lord is my strength!
And if you don’t know God, well he wants to know you, he loves you more than you could ever imagine, and he is there with you, right now, he knows all you’re thinking, your hopes, dreams even doubts, he wants to give you the answers to your questions, you just need to be humble and let him.
I want to encourage you this morning, that God is there, he has been and always will be, and he sees your heart and knows how you feel and all your problems, he knows your strengths and your weaknesses, he knows the silly mistakes we’ve all made, he knows the mistakes we will make, but guess what… all things work together for good for those that love him and are called according to his purpose, are you called ? we all are..we just need to get with his program, because he is there are you where he is?
Super Quick Devotion – (By Charles Spurgeon)
There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness, when we shall have to glorify God by suffering, and not by earnest activity. There is no single point in which we can hope to escape from the sharp arrows of affliction; out of our few days there is not one secure from sorrow. Beloved reader, set not your affections upon things of earth; but seek those things which are above, for here the moth devoureth, and the thief breaketh through, but there all joys are perpetual and eternal. The path of trouble is the way home. Lord, make this thought a pillow for many a weary head!
Stay Blessed,
Forgiven 
Once upon a time, there was a man who looked upon Christmas as a lot of humbug.
He wasn’t a Scrooge. He was a very kind and decent person, generous to his family, upright in all his dealings with other men. But he didn’t believe all that stuff about an incarnation which churches proclaim at Christmas. And he was too honest to pretend that he did.
“I am truly sorry to distress you,” he told his wife, who was a faithful churchgoer, “but I simply cannot understand this claim that God became man. It doesn’t make any sense to me.”
On Christmas Eve, his wife and children went to church for the midnight service. He declined to accompany them. “I’d feel like a hypocrite,” he explained. “I’d much rather stay at home. But I’ll wait up for you.”
Shortly after his family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window and watched the flurries getting heavier and heavier.
“If we must have a Christmas,” he reflected, “it’s nice to have a white one.”
He went back to his chair by the fireside and began to read his newspaper. A few minutes later, he was startled by a thudding sound. It was quickly followed by another, then another. He thought that someone must be throwing snow balls at his living room window.
When he went to the front door to investigate, he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They had been caught in the storm, and in a desperate search for shelter had tried to fly through his window.
I can’t let those poor creatures lie there and freeze, he thought. But how can I help them?
Then he remembered the barn where the children’s pony was stabled. It would provide a warm shelter. He quickly put on his coat and galoshes and tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on the light. But the birds didn’t come in.
Food will bring them in, he thought. So he hurried back to the house for bread crumbs, which he sprinkled on the snow to make a trail into the barn. To his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs and continued to flop around helplessly in the snow. He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around and waving his arms. They scattered in every direction – except into the warm, lighted barn.
“They find me a strange and terrifying creature,” he said to himself, “and I can’t seem to think of any way to let them know they can trust me. If only I could be a bird myself for a few minutes, perhaps I could lead them to safety.”
Just at that moment, the church bells began to ring. He stood silently for a while, listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. Then he sank to his knees in the snow.
“Now I understand,” he whispered. “Now I see why you had to do it.”
NB: I must thank my friend adam for sharing this with me, and I hope its blessed you and shown you our fathers great love for us. His website is christintech.org
Super Quick Devotion – Daily Help : Charles Spurgeon
O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfill his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knoweth that you have need of food and raiment, will yet forget you? When not a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father, and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Full many there be who have been tried till at last they have been driven to exercise faith in God, and the moment of their faith has been the instant of their deliverance.
