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Great Is the Lord!

TAKE SOMETIME TO MEDITATE ON GOD’S GREATNESS AND SPLENDOUR! Psa 145:1-21.    A psalm of praise of David. I will exalt you, my God and King, and praise your name forever and ever. I will praise you every day; yes, I will praise you forever. Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness. Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.  I will meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor and your wonderful miracles. Your awe-inspiring deeds will be on every tongue; I will proclaim your greatness. Everyone will share the story of your wonderful goodness; they will sing with joy about your righteousness. The LORD is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. The LORD is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation. All of your works will thank you, LORD, and your faithful followers will praise you. They will speak of the glory of your kingdom; they will...

The Comfort of the        Universal Presence!

"If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." Psa 139:8 In the library of our university are certain old and interesting maps. They have all the charms of a geography which knows no limit save imagination. In modern atlases where there is ignorance, such ignorance is wisely acknowledged. In older atlases, on the contrary, it is curiously and cunningly concealed. And so in reading these dusty parchments covering territories unexplored we are told that here are cannibals, or satyrs and sundry other goblins. All that has vanished from our maps today, but there is one thing which is left to us still: it is that across the map, even to the remotest boundary, we can write with full assurance Here is God. If I ascend to heaven, thou art there; if I follow the beckoning of the rosy-fingered morning, I am still in the keeping of the eternal Father. Do you and I dwell on that as we should? Do we know the comfort of God's omnipresenc...

Still With Thee!

"When I awake, I am still with thee." Psa 139:18 A man whose religion is of a shallow kind is content with only an occasional acknowledgment of God. He has his stated seasons of approach to God and his rigid periods of worship. There are long stretches of time when, as the psalmist says, God is not in all his thoughts. He wages his warfare on the field of business in total forgetfulness of the divine—a mark of a religious life which is neither very deep nor very real. It never thrills in spiritual strength or joy. Now in the book of Psalms, this is not so. The psalmist's recognition is continuous; always he sets the Lord before him. And it is this continual recognition and this unvarying practice of God's presence which kindles the psalmist when he is discouraged and brings the joy that cometh in the morning. When we go to sleep mastered by some thought, that thought is usually beside us when we awake. If it is trouble on which we closed our eyes, how swiftly in the m...

Living a Godly Life!

https://youtu.be/mgyXn5su4I4 Brother James in The Great Hall of Truth “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (Jas 4:6-7) “What is that large building on the right?” a man in the group asked. “That is The Great Hall of Truth,” I answered. “It is where the Champions of Grace lecture in an open forum. The sign out front says that today James, the Lord’s Brother, will be speaking to an assembly of Statesmen and Politicians on the subject of War. You guys want to stop and listen to him? A unanimous yes! The Great Hall of Truth had a unique architectural design; it actually looked like a human heart. And the acoustics inside the place were simply astounding. No matter where you were seated, you could see and hear everything that was being said and done. The place was packed with heads of state, and dignitaries of all ranks. There was order in the house, though there was no apparent securit...