Friday 7 August 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 07/08/09

ECCLESIASTES 9:10
10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge , nor wisdom, in the grave wither thou goest.

Friday 31 July 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 31/07/09

JOHN 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Friday 24 July 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 24/07/09

PSALM 18:30
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

Friday 17 July 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 17/07/09

PROVERBS 30:12,13,14
12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
13. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14. There is a generation , whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Friday 10 July 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 10/07/09

I CORINTHIANS 16:13,14
13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
14. Let all your things be done with charity.

Friday 3 July 2009

ANONYMOUS

Brother it is not "your style" it is your age.

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 03/07/09

1 JOHN 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Friday 26 June 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 26/06/09

1 PETER 2:1-3
1. Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3. If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

Friday 19 June 2009

QUOTE FROM THE "DOCTOR"

I do not listen to a man who tells me how to solve the worlds problems if he cannot solve his own personal problems. If a man's home is in a state of discord, his opinions about the state of the nation or the state of the world are purely theoretical.

FROM Life in the Spirit in Marriage Home and Work by DR Martyn Lloyd Jones

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 19/06/09

ISAIAH 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Wednesday 17 June 2009

Friday 12 June 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 12/06/09

EZEKIEL 8:12
Then said he unto me, son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

Friday 5 June 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 05/06/09

ROMANS 7:19,20
19. For the good that I would I do not : but the evil which I would not, that I do.
20. Now if I do that I would not , it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

Saturday 30 May 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 30/05/09

JAMES 5:3
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.



Here's a question can gold rust? yes it oxidizes and can take on a "patina" ,but can it rust??

Friday 22 May 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 22/05/09

JOEL 1: 11-15
11. Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12. The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13. Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is with-holden from the house of your God.
14. Sanctity ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
15. Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Friday 15 May 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 15/05/09

LAMENTATIONS 4:1
How is the gold dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

Friday 8 May 2009

QUOTE FROM THE "DOCTOR"

"When a man truly sees himself, he knows that nobody can say anything about him that is too bad."

From an issue of "Banner of Truth"

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 08/05/09

PROVERBS 27:19
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

Friday 1 May 2009

JOHN MacARTHUR, ON C H SPURGEON

QUOTE FROM THE "DOCTOR"

" The Fathers used to use the term - PLEADING THE PROMISES. You never hear it now. Why? Because people do not really pray any longer , they send little telegrams to God. They think that that is the height of spirituality. They know nothing about WRESTLING with God and PLEADING THE PROMISES."

Taken from JOY UNSPEAKABLE by Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 01/05/09

I TIMOTHY 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

Wednesday 29 April 2009

PRAYER

POWER THROUGH PRAYER
EDWARD M. BOUNDS

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1 Men of Prayer Needed
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer. -- Robert Murray McCheyne
WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The world's salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success. The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that "the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him," he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This vital, urgent truth is one that this age of machinery is apt to forget. The forgetting of it is as baneful on the work of God as would be the striking of the sun from his sphere. Darkness, confusion, and death would ensue.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.

An eminent historian has said that the accidents of personal character have more to do with the revolutions of nations than either philosophic historians or democratic politicians will allow. This truth has its application in full to the gospel of Christ, the character and conduct of the followers of Christ -- Christianize the world, transfigure nations and individuals. Of the preachers of the gospel it is eminently true.

The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. The pipe must not only be golden, but open and flawless, that the oil may have a full, unhindered, unwasted flow.

The man makes the preacher. God must make the man. The messenger is, if possible, more than the message. The preacher is more than the sermon. The preacher makes the sermon. As the life-giving milk from the mother's bosom is but the mother's life, so all the preacher says is tinctured, impregnated by what the preacher is. The treasure is in earthen vessels, and the taste of the vessel impregnates and may discolor. The man, the whole man, lies behind the sermon. Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon, because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. The sermon is forceful because the man is forceful. The sermon is holy because the man is holy. The sermon is full of the divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction.

Paul termed it "My gospel;" not that he had degraded it by his personal eccentricities or diverted it by selfish appropriation, but the gospel was put into the heart and lifeblood of the man Paul, as a personal trust to be executed by his Pauline traits, to be set aflame and empowered by the fiery energy of his fiery soul. Paul's sermons -- what were they? Where are they? Skeletons, scattered fragments, afloat on the sea of inspiration! But the man Paul, greater than his sermons, lives forever, in full form, feature and stature, with his molding hand on the Church. The preaching is but a voice. The voice in silence dies, the text is forgotten, the sermon fades from memory; the preacher lives.

The sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces above the man. Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher. Under the Jewish dispensation the high priest had inscribed in jeweled letters on a golden frontlet: "Holiness to the Lord." So every preacher in Christ's ministry must be molded into and mastered by this same holy motto. It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood. Jonathan Edwards said: "I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness." The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of it move. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. Its divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a projecting, eccentric, an all-commanding, self-oblivious force. The energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, in dependent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself, with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-consuming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men. Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the Church nor the world for God.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself. The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God -- men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.

After this order, the early Christians were formed. Men they were of solid mold, preachers after the heavenly type -- heroic, stalwart, soldierly, saintly. Preaching with them meant self-denying, self-crucifying, serious, toilsome, martyr business. They applied themselves to it in a way that told on their generation, and formed in its womb a generation yet unborn for God. The preaching man is to be the praying man. Prayer is the preacher's mightiest weapon. An almighty force in itself, it gives life and force to all.

The real sermon is made in the closet. The man -- God's man -- is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God. The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor.

The pulpit of this day is weak in praying. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. Prayer is with the pulpit too often only official -- a performance for the routine of service. Prayer is not to the modern pulpit the mighty force it was in Paul's life or Paul's ministry. Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.




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Saturday 25 April 2009

QUOTE FROM "THE DOCTOR"

" When you are calling upon the living God and his inimitable power, you do not need the sponsorship of men. The sponsorship you are interested in is the sponsorship of the Holy Spirit "

Taken from "Revival" by Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones.

Friday 24 April 2009

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 24/04/09

ISAIAH 30:9,10
9. That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD.
10. Which say to seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things speak unto us smooth thing, prophesy deceits:

Saturday 18 April 2009

"WAY OF THE MASTER"





I will be leading a "WAY OF THE MASTER" course in the Portadown area , beginning soon , "This 8 week course is specially formatted to train believers in a group setting to simply and confidently share the gospel with family, friends, and strangers.The course will teach you to overcome your fears by using a proven, powerfully effective way to make the gospel make sense.You won't be at a loss for words. You don't need to be an expert in apologetics.Instead, you'll learn the forgotten biblical principle of bypassing the intellect ( the place of argument) and speaking directly to the conscience ( the place of the knowledge of right and wrong) - the way Jesus did".

Contact for more details

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS

Friday 17 April 2009

QUOTE


C. T. STUDD said.............
We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism........TO YOUR KNEES, MAN! AND TO YOUR BIBLE! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God. Quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying and cowardly excuses.

SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK 16/04/08

I JOHN 3:4
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

DECISIONISM TODAYS APOSTASY