• “When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need.…For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.” – Basilea Schlink

Joy and Strength 02/22

Glory ye in His holy name; let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Ps. cv. 3.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke xii. 32.

I KNOW not what it is to doubt.
My heart is ever gay;
I run no risk, for come what will,
Thou always hast Thy way.
Frederick Wm. Faber.

THIS way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving, and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable. Some one says, “God’s will on earth is always joy, always tranquillity.” And since He must have His own way concerning His children, into what wonderful green pastures of inward rest, and beside what blessedly still waters of inward refreshment is the soul led that learns this secret. If the will of God is our will, and if He always has His way, then we always have our way also, and we reign in a perpetual kingdom. He who sides with God cannot fail to win in every encounter; and, whether the result shall be joy or sorrow, failure or success, death or life, we may, under all circumstances, join in the Apostle’s shout of victory, “Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!”
Hannah Whitall Smith

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  • Sean Quillin says:

    ~ He knew you ~ A poem the Lord gave me to write 12-24-2019 Imagine creating the tree and Iron to. That when they hung him on that cross; He knew. He knew what it took to hold him there. It wasn't steel spikes but a love he shared. He Knew. He knew you. A carpenter knows his wood and chooses the right nails; He knows where to place them, that the flesh won't fail. He knew; He knew you. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak; To Keep a man from running; one nail thru both feet. He knew;He knew you. What kind of strength is that; that kept Him on that cross. How could any man suffer, so much of a loss. He knew; He knew you.

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  • “My soul remained in a kind of heavenly elysium. So far as I am capable of making a comparison, I think that what I felt each minute, during the continuance of the whole time, was worth more than all the outward comfort and pleasure, which I had enjoyed in my whole life put together. It was a pure delight, which fed and satisfied the soul. It was peasure, without the least sting, or any interruption. It was a sweetness, which my soul was lost in. It seemed to be all that my feeble frame could sustain, of that fulness of joy, which is felt by those, who behold the face of Christ, and share his love in the heavenly world.” – Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards

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[The Humbled and Exalted Christ] Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. — Philippians 2:5-8 (NKJV)

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