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Monday, July 5, 2010

KEEP YOUR BREASTPLATE ON


August 8


KEEP YOUR BREASTPLATE ON



Faith is a shield. Will a soldier drop his protection unless he has been seriously wounded?







David expressed keen sorrow for the unholiness in his life: "O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more" (Psalm 39:13). He did not want to die until holiness ruled his heart again. Ungodliness is a poison which drinks up all serenity of conscience and inward springs of joy. If you throw a stone into a clear brook it will soon become muddy. "He will speak peace unto his people, but let them not turn again to folly" (Psalm 85:8).

Carelessness in the walk of holiness dangerously exposes your faith, which is kept in good conscience as a jewel is protected in a cabinet. Faith is an eye, and sin casts a hazy mist before it. To faith, a holy life is like pure air to the eye; we can see farther on a clear day. Thus faith sees further into God's promise when it looks through a holy well-ordered life.

Faith is a shield. Will a soldier drop his protection unless he has been seriously wounded? If faith fails, what will happen to hope, which cleaves to faith and draws strength from her as a nursing child takes nourishment from its mother? If faith cannot see pardon in the promise, then hope cannot look for salvation. If faith cannot claim sonship, hope will not wait for the inheritence. Faith informs the soul it has "peace with God" and then the soul rejoices "in the hope of the glory of God" (Romans 5:1-2).

Are you trying to use the sword of the Spirit? How can you hold it when unholiness has seriously maimed the hand of faith that must carry it? This sword has two edges-- one side heals but the other wounds. With one it saves and with the other it damns. The Bible does not speak a single kind word to the person who practices sin. Now-- think and then think some more-- is any sin worth all this confusion which will inevitably strangle and smother your soul?

The Bible

"An old writer said that some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested. The Bible is one that you can never exhaust. It is like a bottomless well: you can always find fresh truths gushing forth from its pages."

Days of trouble

"Days of trouble must be days of prayer, days of inward trouble especially, when God seems to have withdrawn from us; we must seek him and seek till we find him. In the day of his trouble he did not seek for the diversion of business or recreation, to shake off his trouble that way, but he sought God, and his favour and grace. Those that are under trouble of mind must not think to drink it away, or laugh it away, but must pray it away." Psalm 77:2

"Christians who owe their all to Christ, should be often talking of him." The Life Of The Reverend Matthew Henry,

Let duty be carefully done, and sin carefully avoided, considering that he who sees all now, will tell all shortly before angels and men, in the day w

"Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information

"Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, we must by our prayers give Him honour." Experiencing God's Presence, p 22
"God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer." Experiencing God's Presence, p 24
"The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to Him... Give Him His titles as you do when you direct a letter to a person of honour." Experiencing God's Presence, p 30
"Direct your prayer to Him in heaven... We must view Him as God in heaven, as opposed to the gods of the heathen, which dwelt in temples made with hands." Experiencing God's Presence, p 32

Thy word...

"The Word of God is called a light unto our feet, not to our tongues, merely to talk of, but to our feet to walk by." The Christian In Complete

The Christian's life is a continual wrestling... No duty can be performed without wrestling. The Christian needs his sword as much as his trowel." The

Put on the whole armour....

"Bathe thy soul with the frequent meditation of Christ's love." The Christian In Complete Armour,

"O ye saints, when reproached and persecuted, look farther than man, spend not your wrath upon him. Alas! they are but instruments in the devil's hand

"Borrow as much time as you can for communion with God, and communing with your own hearts in secret." The Christian In Complete Armour, Vol I, Epistl

several verses the word armour (armor)


As I was reading the bible this morning I noticed the word armor is also spelled armour.I am assuming from reading several verses the word armour (armor) has the same meaning unless proven otherwise.
Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand

Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
William Gurnall

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
William Gurnall
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
William Gurnall

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.
William Gurnall
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
William Gurnall
The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.
William Gurnall

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
William Gurnall
"In a word, Christians, God and angels are spectators, observing how you quit yourselves like children of the Most High; every exploit your faith doth against sin and Satan causeth a shout in heaven; while you valiantly prostrate this temptation, scale that difficulty, regain the other ground you even now lost out of your enemies' hands. Your dear Saviour, who stands by with a reserve for your relief at a pinch, his very heart leaps within him for joy to see the proof of your love to him and zeal for him in all your combats; and will not forget all the faithful service you have done in his wars on earth; but when thou comest out of the field, will receive thee with the like joy as he was entertained himself at his return to heaven of his Father." The Christian In Complete Armour, Vol I, Part First