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PEACE IN EVERY STORM

BELIEVE GOD! “Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” -Acts 27:25 [KJV]  Like the apostle Paul, my peace in every storm is in what God has said! Whether it is in the storm of realizing and feeling the danger of my sins or in one of the many stormy circumstances of life, it is the same, I rest in what God has said. If I am in doubt of what God says in His word in one place, what is to keep me from not believing what He says in another? Faith is believing what God says concerning what He has done and will do AND what He says that I am! If I were Noah and had lived in his day, could I have believed that I was what God called me? Would I have been what God said he was? Was it a future thing He spoke of when he said to Noah, “for thee have I seen righteous before Me in this generation” (Genesis 7:1)? Did God the judge of all the earth do right when He destroyed all the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah? Yes, they were...

Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord!

  "The LORD said unto my Lord." -Psalm. 110:1 [KJV]   Some have called this Psalm, David's creed. Certain it is, that there is scarce an article of a true believer's faith, but what is in it. My soul, look through it this morning, if thou hast time, and see whether it is thy creed. If not, look at this precious portion of it, and ask of the Holy Ghost to teach thee the blessed things contained in it.  "The LORD said unto my Lord:" that is, Jehovah said unto my Adonai. Observe, my soul, that here, as in many other parts of the bible, one of these words Load is in capital letters, the other in small characters. This no doubt was done by the translators, by way of telling the English reader that the two words in the original Hebrew are not the same. They had no better method of explaining the difference. But by using different sized letters, they meant to say that there is a difference, and the difference seems to be this: the word LORD, whenever ...