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Faith's Checkbook

There was a technical difficulty ... Here are the missed devotionals that did
not go out along with the one for Tuesday ..
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God Is Our Ally
Charles H. Spurgeon
Dec 09 2005 09:00PM


December 10

God Is Our Ally

"But if thou shalt indeed obey His voice, and do all that I speak; then I will
be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries"
(Exodus 23:22).

The LORD Christ in the midst of His people is to be acknowledged and obeyed. He
is the vice-regent of God and speaks in the Father's name, and it is ours
implicitly and immediately to do as He commands. We shall lose the promise if
we disregard the precept.

To full obedience how large the blessing! The LORD enters into a league with
His people, offensive and defensive. He will bless those who bless us and curse
those who curse us. God will go heart and soul with His people and enter in
deepest sympathy into their position. What a protection this affords us! We
need not concern ourselves about our adversaries when we are assured that they
have become the adversaries of God. If Jehovah has taken up our quarrel, we may
leave the foemen in His hands.

So far as our own interest is concerned we have no enemies; but for the cause
of truth and righteousness we take up arms and go forth to conflict. In this
sacred war we are allied with the eternal God, and if we carefully obey the law
of our LORD Jesus, He is engaged to put forth all His power on our behalf.
Wherefore we fear no man.

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Trust and Do; Do and Trust
Charles H. Spurgeon
Dec 10 2005 09:00PM


December 11

Trust and Do; Do and Trust

"Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily
thou shalt be fed" (Psalm 37:3).

Trust and do are words which go well together, in the order in which the Holy
Spirit has placed them. We should have faith, and that faith should work. Trust
in God sets us upon holy doing: we trust God for good, and then we do good. We
do not sit still because we trust, but we arouse ourselves and expect the LORD
to work through us and by us. It is not ours to worry and do evil but to trust
and do good. We neither trust without doing nor do without trusting.

Adversaries would root us out if they could; but by trusting and doing we dwell
in the land. We will not go into Egypt, but we will remain in Immanuel's
land-the providence of God, the Canaan of covenant love. We are not so easily
to be got rid of as the LORD's enemies suppose. They cannot thrust us out nor
stamp us out: where God has given us a name and a place, there we abide.

But what about the supply of our necessities? The LORD has put a "verily" into
this promise. As sure as God is true, His people shall be fed. It is theirs to
trust and to do, and it is the LORD's to do according to their trust. If not
fed by ravens, or fed by an Obadiah, or fed by a widow, yet they shall be fed
somehow. Away, ye fears!

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A Quiet Heart
Charles H. Spurgeon
Dec 11 2005 09:00PM


December 12

A Quiet Heart

"In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength" (Isaiah 30:15).

It is always weakness to be fretting and worrying, questioning and
mis-trusting. What can we do if we wear ourselves to skin and bone? Can we gain
anything by fearing and fuming? Do we not unfit ourselves for action and
unhinge our minds for wise decision? We are sinking by our struggles when we
might float by faith.

Oh, for grace to be quiet! Why run from house to house to repeat the weary
story which makes us more and more heart-sick as we tell it? Why even stay at
home to cry out in agony because of wretched forebodings which may never be
fulfilled? It would be well to keep a quiet tongue, but it would be far better
if we had a quiet heart. Oh, to be still and know that Jehovah is God!

Oh, for grace to be confident in God! The holy One of Israel must defend and
deliver His own. He cannot run back from His solemn declarations. We may make
sure that every word of His will stand though the mountains should depart. He
deserves to be confided in; and if we would display confidence and consequent
quietness, we might be as happy as the spirits before the throne.

Come, my soul, return unto thy rest, and lean thy head upon the bosom of the
LORD Jesus.

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December 13

Evening Brightens into Day

"It shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light" (Zechariah
14:7).

It is a surprise that it should be so; for all things threaten that at evening
time it shall be dark. God is wont to work in a way so much above our fears and
beyond our hopes that we are greatly amazed and are led to praise His sovereign
grace. No, it shall not be with us as our hearts are prophesying: the dark will
not deepen into midnight, but it will, of a sudden, brighten into day. Never
let us despair. In the worst times let us trust in the LORD who turneth the
darkness of the shadow of death into the morning. When the tale of bricks is
doubled Moses appears, and when tribulation abounds it is nearest its end.

This promise should assist our patience. The light may not fully come till our
hopes are quite spent by waiting all day to no purpose. To the wicked the sun
goes down while it is yet day: to the righteous the sun rises when it is almost
night. May we not with patience wait for that heavenly light, which may be long
in coming but is sure to prove itself well worth waiting for?

Come, my soul, take up thy parable and sing unto Him who will bless thee in
life and in death, in a manner surpassing all that nature has ever seen when at
its best.

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