Friday, November 19, 2010

Titus teaches us to be eager to do what is Good!

Pray that God will help you to depend more and more on Him as you live and serve in this godless age. From Stormie Omartian:

  • Praise God for the promise that He is a God of truth and His Word can always be trusted. a faith and knowledge resting on the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time. Titus 1:2
  • Ask the Holy spirit to show you what specifically you need to do (or stop doing) in order to live in a way that honors God. Likewise teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers, or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home to be kind and to be subject to their husband. Titus 2:3-5
  • Ask God to give you a pure heart that is "eager to do what is good." Titus 2:14

Praying Titus 2:11-14 - Jesus, enable me to rise above the lusts of the flesh and the temptations of the world so that I might be purified and made ready for the work You have for me to do.

From Charles Spurgeon's daily devotions:

  • Do I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?
  • Am I renewed in the spirit of my mind?
  • Am I growing in grace?
  • Does my conversation adorn the doctrine of God my Savior?
  • Am I looking for the coming of the Lord and watching as a servant should do who expects his master?
  • What more can I do for Jesus?

Such inquiries as these urgently demand our attention. Let us be peacemakers and endeavor to lead others, both by our precept and example to "avoid foolish questions." Titus 3:9

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Prayer is Never out of Season

Prayer is never out of season--in summer and in winter its results are precious. True prayer is true power. You may not always get what you ask, but you will always have your true needs supplied. When God does not answer His children according to the letter, He does so according to the Spirit. If you ask for course grain, will you be angry because He gives you the finest flour. Do not forget to make your request for the Lord is ready to grant your desires. Prayer is an open door which none can shut.
... "and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, to heaven." 2 Chronicles 30:27

Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. Do not think that your prayer, however weak or trembling, will be unregarded. Our God not only hears prayer but also loves to hear it.
"He does not forget the cry of the humble." Psalm 9:12

God marks prayers down in the registry of his memory. He puts our prayers, like rose leaves between the pages of His book of remembrance, and when the volume is opened at last, there will be a precious fragrance springing up from it.

(From daily devotional of Charles Spurgeon)