Other Thoughts

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock - Isaiah 26:3,4

In the path of Your judgements, O LORD we wait for you; Your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul. My soul yearns for You in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks You. For when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
vs. 8,9

O LORD You will ordain peace for us; You have done for us all our works. v. 12

For thus said the LORD GOD, the Holy One of Israel. In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength. 30:15


"Strive to Enter in at the Straight Gate" (Oswald Chambers Journal)

"Cut it off." My heart is bleeding,
And my spirit's wrung with pain.
Yet I hear my Jesus pleading,
"Cut it off or all is vain."

So I've stopped my ears in terror
Lest self pity make me quail,
Lest at last I take the error
And God's purpose thwart and fail.

I am bowed to death in sadness,
For the pain is all too great,
But the dear Lord must find pleasure
In the way He maketh straight.


Taken from discussion in a morning's prayer meeting after praying for Nathan and others whom the Lord has placed in a vice of sorts.

The Lord allows a saint to remain in the strain of a situation or a circumstance from which one would desparately seek relief and release - for when at last His deliverance comes, it will be at the time when it will do the greatest injury to our Enemy and bring the greatest glory to His Name. Are we willing to remain and not seek release but rather ask Him to strengthen our backs and knees to bear up under it all? May God turn a deaf ear to all our whimpering and self-pity that His Name be made great. He knows how long to hold us in the fire - not so long that we would be destroyed, and not too short that we remain with impurities. We learn obedience through the things we suffer.