Thought For Today - January 22
Where is our boasting? 
By: Robert A. Searles

"Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord." Jeremiah 9: 23,24.

What are we boasting in this morning, my friends? Are we glorying in our high degree of intelligence; our great worldly wisdom; education, college degrees, or our position in life? Are we boasting in our youth, or in our physical beauty, or our health?

You may be saying within yourself, I am young yet, in perfect health, I have the world by the tail, but do you? Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. Take heed therefore and consider -

 "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them." Ecclesiastes 9:11,12

Each of us need to stop and consider that all that we are, all that we have, all that we ever can hope to become has been bestowed upon us by our creator and heavenly father. Every good and perfect gift comes down from our father above, whether it be our eternal salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or the gift of intelligence, or health, beauty, position in life, or great riches. It is God who gives us the power to get wealth. 

"That according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." 1 Corinthians 1:31. "But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." 2 Corinthians 10: 17,18

Friends, lets turn our eyes away from ourselves, and fix them upon our wonderful God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and let all our boasting and glorying be in him.

"Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depth of the sea." Micah 7:18,19.

WHEN WE HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS OUR PERSONAL SAVIOUR WE ARE INDEED THE RICHEST PERSON IN THIS WORLD SYSTEM. ACCORDING TO WORLDLY STANDARDS WE MAY SEEM VERY POOR

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 Thought For Today - January 21
My Daily Bread ! 
By: Robert A. Searles

Give me this day my daily bread so that my soul might find nourishment in thee, O God of my salvation, and that I might have to give to others, that they too might be fed. Except thou dost break the bread to me, I cannot feed the hungry.

 A person can receive nothing except it be given him from God. You have told us, dear Lord in your word, that as our days are, so shall our strength be. Each day the manna falls from Heaven upon your beloved own, and provision is made for our well being; therefore, dear Lord, we ask for strength that we might gather that which you have already provided for us.

Your word O God is a banqueting table to which all who will hear your voice have been invited to come and dine. A banqueting table filled with the finest cuisine of heaven; the bread of life; the lamb of God; the heavenly manna, the Lord Jesus Christ who said that if we eat of his flesh and drink his blood we shall never hunger and never thirst. He is at the head of the table with his arms outstretched and calling to the multitudes, come and dine. Sinner, will you believe and receive Christ as your Lord and Savior today and partake of the bread of Life.?

Christian friend and brother and sister, will you leave the scraps of the world to the hogs and come to your father's table and eat like a king's son. God has promised that he will supply us with daily bread, but our daily bread is found within the pages of his holy word. We must gather and eat by reading and prayer and meditation in a disciplined time and manner. Then the Holy Spirit will feed us. Then we will have enough for ourselves and others, and baskets full left over.

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Abundance - versus - Want

 

Thought For Today - January 19
Abundance - versus - Want
By: Robert A. Searles

According to our English dictionary, the definition of abundance is: - a plentiful supply; a great quantity or number; copiousness; plenty.

God our father in heaven, and creator of all that is, is infinitely rich, and it is his desire that his children on earth be well cared for and share in the fatness and riches of his house. He offers to all who will hear the call, to partake of his abundance. He saw our lack and wretchedness as poor lost sinners, and took upon himself the likeness of our humanity and lived among us in the person of Jesus Christ. He offered himself for us to redeem us back to himself, and declared that he came to give us life, and that more abundantly.

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10.

Christ, the eternal source of all life, not willing that any should perish, left the glories of his eternal home, temporarily laid aside his divine power, became a man and took upon himself the sins of the whole world. He who knew no sin became sin for us in order that we might be the partakers of his divine nature and enjoy with him the fatness of his father’s house. This he has made available to all of us who will believe him; confess our sins; and receive him into our hearts as our \Savior.

When we have a personal relationship with Christ as our Saviour, he gives to us abundant joys. There are joys and a sense of accomplishments and fulfillment in serving Christ that cannot be experienced in anything else that we do. Joy is independent of our happiness, or circumstances of life. The abundant joy that we know as the result of our relationship and service to Christ, is that which rises up out of the depth of our soul when we know that we are pleasing to God; and cannot be extinguished by anything this carnal world has to offer.

“They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasure.” Psalm 36:8.

God’s grace is abundant, more than enough, over flowing for every situation. By grace we are saved; by grace we are kept; by grace we are able to overcome all obstacles and difficulties. Grace is the unmerited favor of God, nothing that we deserve, but is available to all who will believe and receive. By God’s grace we have all sufficiency for all things. By God’s grace we will get to heaven.

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” 2 Cor 9:8.

Through Christ we have abundant power to be more than conquerors and gain the victory over our chief enemy and adversary, Satan. He goes about seeking whom he may trap and devour; but the Holy Spirit working in us abundantly supplies the power we need to be over comers. We need not become the slaves of Satan. We who know Christ as our savior are the children of God, and he gives us the resources and power we need to be victorious.

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen!”” Ephes 3:20,21.

God supplies all our needs abundantly. Sometimes we think that we need more than we actually do, but in reality all we need is the essentials of life to stay alive, remain healthy, and survive, and have all the resources we need to serve God.

We find, for the most part, at the end of the day when we look back, we can see that all that we have needed has been supplied to us, and many times, much more than we thought we needed. When we are faithful in our service to God, he gives us not only the things that we need, but also some of our wants and things that we would like to have to make our lives more enjoyable while we are serving him.

“But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Ph 4:19

God also has provided for his children an abundant entrance into his presence. The curtain in the temple was split asunder when Christ was crucified, and the doors were swung wide open and a universal invitation was given to all to come and dine at the father’s table. Whosoever will may come to the throne of grace in the name of Jesus Christ and receive pardon and entrance into his presence.

“For so an entrance shall be administered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:11.

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The Happiness of the Holy

 

Thought for Today - September 13
The Happiness of the Holy  -  By: Robert A Searles
       Everyone wants to go to heaven  and aide with God forever! But, how do we qualify?
      " Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" Psalm 15: 1.
      Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in  his holy place? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh rig

 

 

 

More Than Necessary Food

 

Thought For Today - January 8
More Than Necessary Food !
By: Robert A. Searles

Job said: "I esteem thy word more than my necessary food." Job 23:12

As necessary as food and other things may be for our physical bodies, even more necessary is the Word of God and fellowship with God for the well being of our eternal soul.

Our Lord and our God is the center and source of all things, both spiritual and material. He is the sustaining power and intelligence behind all things, and by which all creatures live and breath and have their being; therefore, we ought to "pant after God as the hart panteth after the water brook" and receive his instruction daily

"Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold, for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. "Proverbs 8:10,11

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Thought For Today - December 13

God's Promises of Forgiveness

By: Robert A. Searles

"If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will   I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sins and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James 4: 10

"The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not always chide; neither will he Keep his anger forever.  He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.  For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.  As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." Psalm 103: 8-12

"I, even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will remember thy sin no more." Isaiah 43:25

"And he (Jesus) spake this parable unto them, saying, what man of you having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost until he find it? And when he cometh home, he called together his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, rejoice with me: for I have found my sheep which was lost.  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that  repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance." Luke 15:3-7

God has promised in his word that if we will agree with him, and acknowledge that we have sinned and fallen short of his glory, he will forgive all our sin and remember them no more.

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." 1 John 1:9

"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered.  Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity,and in whose spirit there is no guile." Psalm 32:1,2

God's promises of forgiveness are sure and steadfast  because God is true and cannot lie,  but for us to be forgiven we must ask, and by faith receive God's promises.

David tells us in Psalm 32:4-5 - "For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah!  I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid.  I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."

What can wash away our sin?

"Almost all things are, by the law p;urged with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no remission."Heb 9:22

God is so willing and anxious to offer forgiveness to those who would believe and ask in faith, and turn away from their sin  (repent) and receive pardon, that he offered himself as the perfect lamb whose blood must be shed for their redemption. The only thing that can cleanse us from our sin is the divine blood of  our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So, there being no other remedy for the sin nature that is inherent in all of us, -in order for him to keep his promise of forgiveness to all who  will receive it, -he who is  invisible, and  no man has seen his face at any time, offered himself in the person of Jesus Christ who was with God the father from the foundation of the  world according to the gospel of John chapter 1  

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in  him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

From the moment of his birth in Bethlehem, the event which we are celebrating at this season of the year, his purpose in coming to earth was to offer himself as the perfect, sinless lamb of God, to suffer, bleed and die to shed his divine blood for the propitiation  of the sin of all of us who will  believe, and by faith receive.

"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." Isaiah 53:7

No one needs to be lost and separated from God forever in hell. God has promised to forgive all our sins, past, present, and future through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

I invite you to believe, and receive all that God has promised us in his word if you have not already done so.

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 Thought For Today - December 7

God's Promises of His Love

By: Robert A. Searles

The love of God for all his children is beyond human comprehension. I often ask myself this question - Why should he love me so?  and, why should he love you so?- that he would remove mountains, and cast them into the midst of the sea before he would remove his love and care  from us.

God has given us the assurance that if we are his born again children, his love for us will prevail, and we will be protected and cared for, even in the midst of a worldwide crisis  and pandemic such as we are now experiencing.When we become overwhelmed with fear and concerned about our lives and our future, we need  to dwell on all the promises that God has given us in his word.

I want to remind you of just a few of the many promises that God has given us of his unfailing love and care for each of us.

"He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty I will say of the Lord he is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. Surely he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust:  his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.  Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.  A thousand shall fall  at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.  Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most high thy habitation........".Psalm 91:1-9

"For the mountains shall depart and the hills  be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my power be removed saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee." Isaiah 54:10

"Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea." Psalm 46:2

"Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath, for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment,  and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner, but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished." Isaiah 51:6

.  "For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in nowise depart from the law till all be fulfilled." Math 5:18 

  Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail."  Psalm 89:33

"The Lord hath appeared of old unto me saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love,  therefore with loving kindness have I drawn  thee." Jer31:3

.  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered, fear ye not, therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows" Math 10: 30,31

God who cannot lie has given to us these, and many more promises to assure us of our security and protection under the umbrella of his great love for us.  All we have to do is to believe and receive by faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross.

"God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son , that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life." John 3:16  

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