Around the throne of Heaven every song will praise Jesus, for He is worthy.
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation.
After I sing the new song with the Heavenly Choir, I'd like to request "At The Cross" and "Glory To His Name" and "Amazing Grace". Yet, I imagine the new song will be so perfect we may want to repeat it again and again, and then fall down before Him in worship.
And don't you know that while we're singing, memories will rise of where we were when the Lamb redeemed us and what a difference it made in our lives. Praise God!
Jesus is just as worthy of praise today. He is still Lord. He is still God. He is still our Redeemer, worthy of every "Amen!", "Hallelujah!" and "Glory to God!"
On the way to the city, two crowds met; Jesus and His disciples, rejoicing in His ministry; and a widow and mourners headed for the cemetery, lamenting the death of her only son.
Jesus, "The Man Of Sorrows", easily identified with this widow's heartache. The sympathetic Saviour felt her pain as He does ours.
Luke 7:13,14 And when The Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said unto her, "Weep not." And he came and touched the bier; and they that bare him stood still. And He said, "Young man, I say unto thee, Arise."
At His word, the boy lying on an open stretcher sat up and spoke. I wonder what he said.
What an act of tenderness as Jesus took the boy and give him to his rejoicing mother. What a mighty God we serve!
The whole scene reminds us of what will happen when The Lord returns, when we are reunited with our loved ones who have gone to glory. --1 Thes. 4:13-18.
I had already been through breast cancer and didn't want to go through it again. I am a seventeen year survivor. God was ever so close back then.
My recent mammogram prompted on ultrasound and then a biopsy. That's not good. The rush of emotions while waiting for results can get to a person. But, again, The Lord was there, cheering me on.
I read and reread the scripture on pink plastic, dingling from my purse.
Hebrews 13:5 . . . . I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.
During the ultrasound a lady began to sing "Amazing Grace" on a small television during the 911 Memorial Ceremony.
By preaching, The Lord encouraged me to share this with some dear ladies at church so they could help me pray. Except for my family, I was keeping it to myself.
On the way to see the doctor today, the song, "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow" played on my IPod.
Jesus was there all the time. Thank God for the good results.
While in prison for warning the nation of Israel of coming judgment, Jeremiah finds confidence in The Lord.
Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord God behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.
I marvel at God speaking into existence the world, light, and the vastness of the universe. But when I think that holy eternal, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent God would condescend to love the likes of sinners like us, I realize that if He can take a black heart, wash it in the red blood of His Son, and make it whiter than snow, He can do anything.
Ah, the God of the impossible!
The redeemed saints of God are His masterpiece. We are saved because He took the shapeless, dead clay of our lives in His loving, powerful hands and molded us into something new for His glory. Shaped by grace, His infinite skill wrote His love into our lives.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
When you think about the raw material God has to work with when He saves sinners and changes lives, it becomes far more incredible.
If you are saved, your life is God's love letter to a lost world, saying He loves sinners; that His Son died to redeem the lost; that there is life-changing power in the grace of God; that the Gospel is real, and that Jesus Christ makes a difference in every life He redeems.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound.
We don't know what the future holds. If we knew prosperity was coming we would live carelessly. If we knew adversity or trouble were coming we would live with constant anxiety and fear.
People would do well to remember that even with our best laid plans, our lives, our futures, and all that we have are in the hands of Almighty God.
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.
15. For that ye ought to say, If The Lord will, we shall live and do this or that.
"If The Lord wills" should be a way of life.
At its best, life is terribly short. Death comes suddenly and unannounced. The time to live for Jesus is now. The time to witness is now. Now is the time to stand up like Isaiah and say, "Here am I: send me."
In many churches today the bloody message of the cross is not being preached. Instead of hearing that men are sinners and need to be saved, people hear, 'I'm OK and you're OK'.
On a hill far away God boldly declared His boundless, matchless love for the lost of this world, and it cost His only Son a brutal, bloody death on the cross.
John 3:16 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.
Satan may roar like a ferocious lion, and he may try to keep you from God, but he was defeated by the power of God on the old rugged cross. You don't have to remain his prisoner. Jesus will set you free if you ask.
And I'll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down.
