INSIGHTS & NOTES FROM
CHAPTER 144
"Wherever a believer goes he carries his protection along with him. Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield." "Man is... ...so frail is he, so weak, so helpless, compassed about with so many infirmities" "God's time to help his people is when they are sinking & all other helps fail." "...happy is that people, whose God is the Lord." "We were none of us made to be idle, & therefore we should pray for bodily health, not that we may be easy & take our pleasures, but that we may be strong to labour, that we may do the work of our place & day." "...happy are the people whose God is the Lord, according to the tenour of the covenant, though they have not abundance of the world's goods." CHAPTER 145 "If the heart be full of God, out of the abundance of that the mouth will speak, with reverence, to his praise, upon all occasions." "Praising God must be our daily work." "Those that make praise their constant work on earth shall have it their everlasting bliss in heaven." "We must declare, Great is the Lord, his presence infinite, his power irresistible, his brightness insupportable, his majesty awful, his dominion boundless, & his sovereignty incontestable" "...if great, then greatly to be praised, with all that is within us, to the utmost of our power, & with all the circumstances of solemnity imaginable." "God's goodness is great goodness, the treasures of it can never be exhausted" "We must be faithful to God, & sincere in our professions of dependence on him, & devotedness to him." "While I have breath to draw, my mouth shall still speak God's praises." CHAPTER 146 "Princes are mortal, as well as other men, & therefore we cannot have that assurance of help from them which we may have from that Potentate who hath immortality. Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils & will not be there long." "Happy is the man that hopes in the Lord his God, & who is not offended in him." "We may venture to take God's word, for he keepeth truth for ever, & therefore no word of his shall fall to the ground; it is true from the beginning, & therefore true to the end." "The way of the wicked he turns upside down, & therefore let us hope in him, & not be afraid of the fury of the oppressor, as though he were ready to destroy." "It is matter of unspeakable comfort that the Lord reigns as Zion's God, as Zion's king, that the Messiah is head over all things to the church, & will be so while the world stands." CHAPTER 147 "Praising God is work that is its own wages; it is heaven upon earth; it is what we should be in as in our element." "To those whom God heals with the consolations of his Spirit he speaks peace, assures them that their sins are pardoned & that he is reconciled to them, & so makes them easy, pours the balm of Gilead into the bleeding wounds, & then binds them up, & makes them to rejoice." "...God's knowledge is a depth that can never be fathomed." "A humble confidence in the goodness of God's nature is very pleasing to him" "Converting grace, like the thaw, softens the heart that was hard, moistens it, & melts it into tears of repentance; it warms good affections, & makes them to flow which, before, were chilled & stopped up." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 769 - 782.
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Insights From "Church, Read The Book Of Acts, & Get Ready!" by Donnie Swaggart - Chapter 1012/7/2020 "HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT SINCE YOU BELIEVED?" Acts 19:1-2 "...everything the Lord does for us & through us is carried out by the person & agency of the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit in our services, we have nothing but dead religion, but with the Holy Spirit, the church becomes a living & a dynamic organism of anointed power that will set the captive free, heal the sick, & break bondages in lives." "READY FOR WHAT?" "...the greatest move of God the world has ever seen is coming." "Acts 2:17 is about ready to happen." "...signs & wonders, miracles, healings, conversions, & the like is going to come to pass once again in a greater measure than ever before." "MY DESIRE" "My prayer & my cry is for the Lamb of God to change me, humble me, & make me sensitive to His holiness; however, none of this can happen without the office work of the Holy Spirit." "PRAYER MEETINGS" "Our prayer is not for money, power or material blessing but for the glory of the Lord to fill the house." II Chronicles 7:1-3 "...begin to seek the Lord in earnest prayer." "PAUL'S QUESTION" "...'having believed, did you receive?'" "...it is the plan & will of the Lord for all believers to go on & be baptized with the Holy Spirit after conversion." "...one is not baptized with the Holy Spirit at conversion." "No, one does not receive the Spirit baptism at conversion, but this baptism is a baptism of power, distinct & separate from conversion & for which one must ask (Luke 11:13)." "WHY SHOULD THE BELIEVER BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT?" "1. Rest & refreshing. ...Isaiah 28:11-12 ...When one prays in tongues, it brings rest & refreshing to our burdened down heart. 2. Equips one for service. Luke 4:18 3. Worship. ...Our whole being should be given over to the Holy Spirit so that we can live a life of worship. 4. The gifts of the Spirit. ...The sign of a true New Testament church is the frequency in which the gifts operate. 5. The fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22. ...The fruit of the Spirit is Christ-likeness, which only the Holy Spirit can produce." "HOW TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT" "Simply pray this prayer: 'Father, in the name of Jesus, by faith I receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit.'" "You will begin to sense words, a language that is not known to you. Now, exercise faith, & begin to speak what you sense flowing through your Spirit." "Now, have you received since you believed?" Church, Read The Book Of Acts, & Get Ready!, by Donnie Swaggart, pgs. 73 - 80. CHAPTER 140
"Violent men are evil men." "Pride goes before destruction." "The more malice appears in our enemies against us the more earnest we should be in prayer to God to take us under his protection." "Those are safe whom God preserves" "God is as able to preserve his people from secret fraud as from open force" "...nothing can shorten the Lord's right hand." "Mischievous men will be brought to light, & brought to ruin" CHAPTER 141 "Prayer is a spiritual sacrifice; it is the offering up of the soul, & its best affections, to God." "Prayer is of a sweet-smelling savour to God, as incense, which yet has no savour without fire; nor has prayer without the fire of holy love & fervour." "Let the wicked fall into their own net." "The entangling & ensnaring of the wicked sometimes prove the escape & enlargement of the righteous." CHAPTER 142 "Those who in sincerity take the Lord for their God shall find him all-sufficient both as a refuge & as a portion, so that, as no evil shall hurt them, so no good shall be wanting to them" "This we should have an eye to, in all our prayers to God for deliverance out of trouble, that we may have occasion to praise God & may live to his praise." CHAPTER 143 "The more we consider the power of God the less we shall fear the face or force of man" "God speaks to us by his word & by his providence, & in both we should desire & endeavour to hear his lovingkindness" "It is the desire & endeavour of all God's faithful servants to know & to do his will, & to stand complete in it." "Those that have the Lord for their God have his Spirit for their guide; & it is both their character & their privilege that they are led by the Spirit." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 760 - 769. CHAPTER 136
"Whom we must give thanks to - to him that we receive all good from, to the Lord, Jehovah." "In all our adorations we must have an eye to God's excellency as transcendent, & to his power & dominion as incontestably & uncontrollably supreme." "He alone does marvellous things; none besides can do such things, & he does them without the assistance or advice of any other." "It is good to enter into the detail of God's favours... and in each instance to observe, & own, that God's mercy endureth for ever." "The riches of his glory are displayed in the vessels of his mercy. Romans 9:23." CHAPTER 137 "Profane scoffers are not to be humoured, nor pearls cast before swine." "A godly man will prefer a public good before any private satisfaction or gratification whatsoever." "Those that are confederate with the persecutors of good people, & stir them up, & set them on, & are pleased with what they do, shall certainly be called to an account for it another day, & God will remember it against them." CHAPTER 138 "...with uprightness of intention & fervency of affection, inward impressions agreeing with outward expressions." "Praising God is work which the greatest of men need not be ashamed of" "Those that walk in the ways of the Lord have reason to sing in those ways, to go on in them with a great deal of cheerfulness, for they are ways of pleasantness, & it becomes us to be pleasant in them; &, if we are so, great is the glory of the Lord." "Divine consolations have enough in them to revive us even when we walk in the midst of troubles & are ready to die away for fear." "Our hopes that we shall persevere must be founded, not upon our own strength, for that will fail us, but upon the mercy of God, for that will not fail." CHAPTER 139 "God takes notice of every step we take, every right step & every by-step." "Every part of the creation is under God's intuition & influence." "No veil can hide us from God's eye" "God made us, & therefore no doubt he knows; he saw us when we were in the forming, & can we be hidden from him now that we are formed?" "See what reason we have then to praise God for our creation, & to conclude that he who saw our substance when it was unfashioned sees it now that it is fashioned." "Sin is hated, & sinners are lamented, by all that fear God." "The way of godliness is an everlasting way; it is everlastingly true & good, pleasing to God & profitable to us, & will end in everlasting life." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 749 - 760. CHAPTER 132
"When needful work is to be done for God it is good for us to task ourselves, & tie ourselves to a time, because we are apt to put off." "Righteousness is the best ornament of a minister. Holiness towards God, & goodness towards all men, are habits for ministers of the necessity of which there is no dispute." "'We have no merit of our own to plead, but for his sake in whom there is a fulness of merit, let us find favour.'" "The delight God takes in his church, & the continuance of his presence with his church, are the comfort & joy of all its members." "God gives more than we ask, & when he gives salvation he will give an abundant joy." "...Christ's crown shall endure to all eternity & the crowns reserved for his faithful subjects are such as fade not away." CHAPTER 133 "...believers are taught of God to love one another; it is a grace of his working in us." "Thus holy love is, in the sight of God, of great price; & that is precious indeed which is so in God's sight." "Loving people are blessed people." "The blessing which God commands on those that dwell in love is life for evermore; that is the blessing of blessings." "Those that live in love & peace shall have the God of love & peace with them now, & they shall be with him shortly, with him for ever, in the world of endless love & peace. How good then is it, & how pleasant!" CHAPTER 134 "We are the servants of the Lord; we have a place & a name in his house, in his sanctuary; we stand before him to minister to him." "Let us therefore bless the Lord, & again bless him; think & speak of his glory & goodness. Let us lift up our hands in prayer, in praise, in vows; let us do our work with diligence & cheerfulness, & an elevation of mind." CHAPTER 135 "The duty we are called to - to praise the Lord, to praise his name; praise him, & again praise him." "Those have most reason to praise God who are admitted to the privileges of his house, & those see most reason who there behold his beauty & taste his bounty" "The gods of the heathen can do nothing; but our God can do any thing" "No power of hell or earth can prevent the accomplishment of the promise of God when the time, the set time, for it has come." "God is, & will be, always the same to his church, a gracious, faithful, wonder-working God; & his church is, & will be, the same to him, a thankful praising people" "Let us set ourselves about the acts of devotion, & employ ourselves in them: Bless the Lord, & again & again, bless the Lord." "The condescensions of his grace, in dwelling with men upon the earth, call for our grateful & thankful returns, & our repeated Hallelujahs." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 741 - 749. CHAPTER 128
"It is very pleasant to enjoy the fruits of our own industry" CHAPTER 129 "...the church has been always graciously delivered by her friend in heaven." "Many a storm it has weathered; many a shock, & many a brunt, it has borne; & yet it is in being" "Christ has built his church upon a rock, & the gates of hell have not prevailed against it, nor ever shall." "The enemies of God's church wither of themselves" CHAPTER 130 "...in the greatest depths, it is our privilege that we may cry unto God & be heard." "It is our duty & interest to cry unto God, for that is the likeliest way both to prevent our sinking lower & to recover us out of the horrible pit & miry clay." "Let us admire God's patience & forbearance" "It is of his mercy that we are not consumed by his wrath." "Let all that devote themselves to God cheerfully stay themselves upon him" CHAPTER 131 "To know God, & our duty is learning sufficiently high for us." "...it is good to hope & quietly to wait for the salvation of the Lord." Matthew Henry's Commentary: Job To Song Of Solomon, Mac Donald, pgs. 735 - 741. |
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September 2023
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