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This Day's Verse 18th April 2024

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10 The King James Version

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This Day's Thought 18th April 2024

Faith is a living and unshakeable confidence, a belief in the grace of God, so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake. This makes us joyful, high-spirited and eager in our relations with God and with all mankind.

Martin Luther

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Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional: April 18th

“He Never Fails ”

Joshua 1:5

This word to Joshua is often quoted; it is the basis of that New Testament word "He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

Beloved, a life of warfare is before us, but the LORD of Hosts is with us. Are we called to lead a great but fickle people? This promise guarantees us all the wisdom and prudence that we shall need. Have we to contend with cunning and powerful enemies? Here is strength and valor, prowess and victory. Have we a vast heritage to win? By this sign we shall achieve our purpose; the LORD Himself is with us.

It would be woe to us indeed if Jehovah could fail us; but, as this can never be, the winds of disquietude are laid to sleep in the caverns of divine faithfulness. On no one occasion will the LORD desert us. Happen what may, He will be at our side. Friends drop from us, their help is but an April shower; but God is faithful, Jesus is the same forever, and the Holy Spirit abideth in us.

Come, my heart, be calm and hopeful today. Clouds may gather, but the LORD can blow them away. Since God will not fail me, my faith shall not fail; and as He will not forsake me, neither will I forsake Him. Oh, for a restful faith!

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Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional: April 18th

“They shall mount up with wings” (Isaiah 40:31)

“They shall mount up with wings as eagles,” is God’s preliminary; for the next promise is, “They shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.” Hours of holy exultation are necessary for hours of patient plodding, waiting and working. Nature has its springs, and so has grace.

Let us rejoice in the Lord evermore, and again we say, rejoice. And let us take Him to be our continual joy, whose heart is a fountain of blessedness, and who is anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows. We must not be disappointed if the tides are not always equally high. Even at low tide the ocean is just as full. Human nature could not stand perpetual excitement, even of a happy kind, and God often rests in His love. Let us live as self-unconsciously as possible, filling up each moment with faithful service, and trusting Him to stir the springs at His will, and as we go on in faithful service we shall hear, again and again, His glad whisper: “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.”

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Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for April 18

Tozer in the Morning Spiritual Smugness

Self-righteousness is terrible among God's people. If we feel that we are what we ought to be, then we will remain what we are. We will not look for any change or improvement in our lives. This will quite naturally lead us to judge everyone by what we are. This is the judgment of which we must be careful. To judge others by ourselves is to create havoc in the local assembly. Self-righteousness also leads to complacency. Complacency is a great sin and covers just about everything I have said about the rote and the rut. Some have the attitude, "Lord, I'm satisfied with my spiritual condition. I hope one of these days You will come, I will be taken up to meet You in the air and I will rule over five cities." These people cannot rule over their own houses and families, but they expect to rule over five cities. They pray spottily and sparsely, rarely attending prayer meeting, but they read their Bibles and expect to go zooming off into the blue yonder and join the L ord in the triumph of the victorious saints.

Tozer in the Evening No Light Without the Divine Enlightener

However unpopular we may become as a result, we must cling to the knowledge that all men are heretics by nature and can never know redeeming truth till they are enlightened from above by and through the inspired revelation we call the Scriptures. We are never kind to our neighbor when for the sake of sweet charity we smile away his perilous error and let him go unrebuked and uncorrected. The sons of light have an overwhelming obligation to the children of darkness. The lighthouse keeper dare not compromise with the storm; neither dare the light become friendly with the darkness.

The temptation to create our own creed and settle religious questions out of our own heads is as great in the pastor?s study as in the corner tavern. No man knows enough to be sure he is right about divine things until he has submitted his ideas to the test of the Scriptures. Intelligence is not enough, nor experience nor brilliance. The Word of God is the final court of appeal. ?I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path? (Psalms 119:104).

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Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 18th April 2024

4/18 Judges 2:2

2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

In spite of the earnest desire of the Israelites to obey and live in the blessing of the Lord, where there were difficult places to conquer, they allowed the Canaanites to remain among them. They did not destroy the altars of the false gods when they subjugated an area. Instead of driving them out, they used those people that remained as laborers and taxed them.

The angel of the Lord warned that because they had done this, the Canaanites would be thorns in their sides and their gods would become a snare to them. The Israelites lifted up their voices and wept. The consequences of disobedience are still with them to this day. It eventually resulted in their exile to a foreign land.

It isn't as if they didn't know God's will. It was made very plain to them by Moses and Joshua. They found some excuse to compromise. Compromise is disobedience. It may sound reasonable, and even good. Some today would say it was the right thing to do. Disobedience to God is never right. He is the standard for truth, righteousness, and justice. It was more destructive in the long run to disobey God by having mercy on those that were under God's judgment.

We face the same thing today when we disobey the Holy Spirit's voice and help someone in need. Certainly as a general rule we should help the needy, but there are times when someone is under the Lord's discipline and with our good intentions we can interfere with God's will. Listen to the Holy Spirit.

Consider: What seems like a kind thing may actually make things worse. God knows the whole story. Listen to the Holy Spirit and obey His voice.

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