That Your Beloved Ones May Be Delivered

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses;

You have been angry; oh, restore us.

You have made the land to quake;

You have torn it open;

Repair its breaches, for it totters.

You have made your people see hard things;

You have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.

You have set up a banner for those who fear you,

That they may flee to it from the bow. Selah

That your beloved ones may be delivered,

Give salvation by your right hand and answer us!

Psalm 60:1-5

Wiser and Stronger

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Corinthians 1:25

The Most Fertile Ground for Grace

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True desperation is always the most fertile ground for God's grace to produce an abundant harvest of hope. And each time God has shown us His greatest glory He has always first revealed our greatest despair.

~ Greg Lucas

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Descending Like a Dove

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And when he came up out of the water, 

immediately he saw the heavens being torn open 

and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. 

Mark 1:10

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Look To Your Foundations, Set Your House in Order

That carelessness about sin, that trifling with temptation, that earnestness about the things of time, that forgetfulness about eternity, that readiness to swim with the tide about religion, that unwillingness to become more serious than your neighbors, that fear of being thought righteous overmuch, that love of the world’s good opinion—is this what you call coming out of great tribulation? Is this living in the Spirit? Is this striving and laboring after eternal life? 

Oh, look to your foundations, set your house in order. No empty ‘trust in God’s mercy’ will ever save you. You were not baptized unto idleness and indifference. Without a real hatred of sin, and a real forsaking of sin, Christ can profit you nothing. You never can be made white with the blood of the Lamb—unless you desire to have this earth’s defilements really washed away!

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