Amazing Grace Changes Lives

On the grave of John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace," are these words:

John Newton, Clerk. ---  Once an infidel and libertine,  ---  A servant of slaves in Africa,  ---  Was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour,  ---  Jesus Christ,  ---  Preserved, restored, pardoned,  ---  And appointed to preach the faith. ---  He had long labored to destroy.

On one occasion Newton said to a friend, "I am not all that I should be or what I want to be, but thank God I am not what I used to be."

He wrote his testimony.   ---  Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,  ---  That saved a wretch like me.  ---  I once was lost, but now I'm found,  ---  Twas blind but now I see.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

It doesn't matter what you did or how you lived, you are God's when you trust in Him. He takes you from an old life and gives you a new life. He claims you as a trophy of grace.

Thanks to Calvary I'm not the person I used to be. I've been changed.

Standing On The Promises

The land Abram walked over is the prize for his faith.

Then God enhanced the prize by promising more. So many will descend from him that they can’t be counted.

That’s quite a promise considering his wife can’t have children. But Abraham believed God and that was counted for righteousness. I like to call Isaac their miracle baby.

Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

God wants to do the same for believers today. He wants to multiply our faith. Our minds can’t comprehend all that we will receive if we get our hearts right with the Lord --  if we submit our lives to His will.

The walk of faith is a walk of progressive revelation. As we walk in obedience to what He has already revealed, He will show us more as time goes by. That’s how the Lord works.

If we want God’s best, we should be willing to follow where He leads.

What A Savior!

Isn't it astonishing that the One who has all power in Heaven and earth endured the horrible without saying a word.

Isaiah 53:7 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 openeth not his mouth.

Jesus could’ve spoken the word and the very iron in the nails would have crawled back into the earth.

He could’ve disbursed the molecules of His executioners with a single thought.

He could’ve called twelve legions of angels to rescue Him.

Matthew 26:53  Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

But His love for sinners was too great.

Instead, He willingly took our sins upon Himself and died on a cruel cross in our place so believers like us would not perish but have eternal life. Unbelievers will parish.

What a Savior!

God Will Take Care Of You

Thousands of years before Elijah needed a drink of cool, clear water, the finger of God traced out the path of a little brook and even fed him.

1 Kings 17:3-4 Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

Do you have a need? It may seem that the Lord isn't moving your way -- that He’s going to leave you to twist in the breeze.

Truth is, God has already met your need before the need arose. He will supply it in His own way and in His own time.

Be patient and faithful to the Him and seek His will for your life. He will take care of you.

Ps 84:11, "For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”