The God of Hope(KJV verse shuffle-up)

If only it were worded this way.  But here are three King James Version verses stringed together from different books.

"Now the God hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may bound to every good work."

This was:

Romans 15:13

Ephesians 3:20

2 Corinthians 9:8

Shuffling the verses often makes a great message, but may or may not damage the context of the passage.

 

verses for May 9, 2023

 

verses, May 8 2023.

 

verses from 5/6 and 5/7/2023

 

some verses of the day from March 14, 2023

 

verse of the day memes

 

verse memes, March 11 2023

 

psalm 62

"..they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly...."

"In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us."

"Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth to God.

Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work."

-Psalm 62(#KJV)

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Some verse memes from around the web, Feb 7, 2023

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some verses of the day, jan 23, 2023

 If by grace we win the day, as we shall if we truly follow our conquering Leader, then we shall be admitted to the very center of the paradise of God and shall be permitted to pass by the cherub and his flaming sword and come to that guarded tree, whereof if a man eat, he shall live forever. We shall thus escape that endless death which is the doom of sin and gain that everlasting life which is the seal of innocence, the outgrowth of immortal principles of Godlike holiness. Come, my heart, pluck up courage! To flee the conflict will be to lose the joys of the new and better Eden; to fight unto victory is to walk with God in paradise. -Charles Spurgeon

Some verses of the day from around the web, Jan 20, 2023

 

 

As from the Weymouth Translation: "Reckon it joy when you find yourself hedged in...."

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in the employ of the Lord.

1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

 
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

-2 Corinthians 4:1-2

What a blessing to be in the employ of the Lord!  There could be no better office manager--not a slave driver or an overlord, but one who loves as befitting a Father, one who knows us, as befitting our Creator.

Psalm 32 from Young's Literal Translation.

O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

David speaks of a pressure exerted on him before he confessed his sins.  Everyone knows in part, this pressure that comes from sinful behavior, to let it go and give in to corrupted things: bad acts torment most people who know better, they eat at a person in ways we don't readily understand.

If we wanted a mystical reading, we could see this third verse as a man fighting against himself, how people so often work against their own best interests in the interests of expediency and perceived gains.

Such is often the way that one bad act spawns more bad acts, such as one bad act dictating bad acts to cover the first bad act, kind of a "self-defeating prophecy" that goes to work in one's life.  Many say this is the Eternal Enemy, Satan himself, and his demons, at work in our hearts that lead us to these bad acts.

Since the Age of Enlightenment, we now blame ourselves for our bad acts; we don't blame demons for types of mental disease.  Though we had men like Kierkegaard and Spinoza extolling God to their fellow thinkers, God had partly fallen away, leaving man in a cloak of guilt and self-blame.

If only, that first verse: a covering for our iniquities, the erasure of blame!

That third verse again: his roaring.  He had perhaps a spiritual emptiness before he handed it over to God, and he worked against himself all day, and was spiritually empty during the night.

Until God.

He found God a refuge and a ready and willing help, a deliverer.

O the happiness of him

as the King James has it:

"Blessed is the man..." 

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

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verse of the day: nov 8, 2022

 

Wellness and even Buddhists talk about mental presence and awareness.  Christ is his earthly bound-days had something that brought sort of a peak mental awareness; imagine him fasting and spending hours in prayer.

I like to think Christ and God are not just love, but also an awareness: a generosity, but a mental presence that feels all those interconnections.  I apologize for sounding mystic, but I remind that, as in the book of Philippians, I am equal to much, because my faith in Christ strengthens me.

This looks like a mainstream publishing of a KJV Thomspon Chain....

Some suppliers around had old stocks of small-publisher KJV Thomspon Chain bibles, but there had been a pretty good little hole in the market for these things on a larger scale.....

I could come up with a Thompson Chain paperback, standard size, and its a really good reference Bible, but Zondervan's new offering looks pretty promising, and with various trim levels and extra study helps....

Randy from Biblebuyerguide posts an unpaid review of the material, along with a lot of pictures, and even a video....

https://biblebuyingguide.com/kjv-comfort-print-thompson-chain-reference-bible-review-part-2-cover-and-size-comparisons/

Saturday, November 5, 2022

For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. -Romans 13

God's own plan is everything, and God's own plan happens in his own time, at his command, and not ours.  That next big thing in your life, or the happy conclusion of something else, may be an object of our prayer; the believer sometimes has to be patient and wait on God.

And then the hopes of his heart are his.

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I think the thrill of the Pagan stories and of romance may be due to the fact that they are mere beginnings—the first, faint whisper of the wind from beyond the world—while Christianity is the thing itself: and no thing, when you have really started on it, can have for you then and there just the same thrill as the first hint. For example, the experience of being married and bringing up a family cannot have the old bittersweet of first falling in love. But it is futile (and, I think, wicked) to go on trying to get the old thrill again: you must go forward and not backward. Any real advance will in its turn be ushered in by a new thrill, different from the old: doomed in its turn to disappear and to become in its turn a temptation to retrogression. -CS Lewis

Thou hast made this nation the home of the gospel; and when the foe has risen against her, thou hast shielded her. Help us to offer repeated songs for repeated deliverances. Grant us more and more a hatred of Antichrist, and hasten on the day of her entire extinction. Till then and ever, we believe the promise, "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper." -Charles Spurgeon

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others. -Oswald Chambers

We never realize at the time what God is putting us through— we go through it more or less without understanding. Then suddenly we come to a place of enlightenment, and realize— “God has strengthened me and I didn’t even know it!” -Oswald Chambers

The LORD loves His chosen too well to be always angry with them. If He were to deal with us always as He does sometimes, we should faint outright and go down hopelessly to the gates of death. Courage, dear heart! The LORD will soon end His chiding. Bear up, for the LORD will bear you up and bear you through. He who made you knows how frail you are and how little you can bear. He will handle tenderly that which He has fashioned so delicately. Therefore, be not afraid because of the painful present, for it hastens to a happy future. He that smote you will heal you; His little wrath shall be followed by great mercies.  -Charles Spurgeon

November 4, 2022

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. -2 Corinthians 3

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No one will believe this who has not lived long and looked hard, so that he knows how suddenly a passion for which has for years been wrapped round the whole of the heart will dry up and wither. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root. Or perhaps it’s age that does it. -CS Lewis

Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. -Charles Spurgeon

Let me ask you this: Can one demonic person change a nation for the worse? Definitely. Hitler did it in Germany, didn't he?

Then if the devil's power resting on a man can change a nation for the worse, you can be sure that a group of men and women with God's power resting on them can change a nation for the better.  -Kenneth Copeland

When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. -Oswald Chambers

Although the LORD may not appear for us in the way we expect, or desire, or suppose, yet He will in some way or other provide for us. It is a great blessing for us to be raised above looking to secondary causes so that we may gaze into the face of the great First Cause. Have we this day grace enough to make trenches into which the divine blessing may flow?  -Charles Spurgeon

If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. -Charles Spurgeon 

 

Third of November verse of the day and purchase of the dear.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. -Romans 13

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Now I do not think that Satan much cares to destroy us Christians physically. The soldier dead in battle who died performing some deed of heroism is not a great loss to the army but may rather be an object of pride to his country. On the other hand the soldier who cannot or will not fight but runs away at the sound of the first enemy gun is a shame to his family and a disgrace to his nation. So a Christian who dies in the faith represents no irreparable loss to the forces of righteousness on earth and certainly no victory for the devil.  -AW Tozer

Our God not only hears prayer but also loves to hear it. "He forgetteth not the cry of the humble." True, He regards not high looks and lofty words; He cares not for the pomp and pageantry of kings; He listens not to the swell of martial music; He regards not the triumph and pride of man; but wherever there is a heart big with sorrow, or a lip quivering with agony, or a deep groan, or a penitential sigh, the heart of Jehovah is open; He marks it down in the registry of His memory; He puts our prayers, like rose leaves, between the pages of His book of remembrance, and when the volume is opened at last, there shall be a precious fragrance springing up therefrom.  -Charles Spurgeon

 Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open, and as long as that road is unobstructed, you will not fall into the enemy's hand. We can never be taken by blockade, escalade, mine, or storm, so long as heavenly succours can come down to us by Jacob's ladder to relieve us in the time of our necessities. Prayer is never out of season: in summer and in winter its merchandize is precious. Prayer gains audience with heaven in the dead of night, in the midst of business, in the heat of noonday, in the shades of evening.-Charles Spurgeon

Toys and trinkets are easily won, but the greatest things are greatly bought. -LB Cowman

 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me… Galatians 2:20

These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Jesus. -Oswald Chambers

 

11.02.22

 
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; -1 Peter 2

 

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The outward people will always look down on the church, saying that it is poor and full of affliction. They do not have a spirit to realize how rich we are in the enjoyment of all that the Lord is to us. Although there was nothing outwardly attractive about that little house, inwardly it was filled with feasting, resting, and satisfaction. Not only the Lord Jesus was feasting and resting, but so was everyone else who was there. It must be this way in the church life... -Witness Lee

The problem about avoiding our own pain admits a similar solution. Some ascetics have used self-torture. As a layman, I offer no opinion on the prudence of such a regimen; but I insist that, whatever its merits, self-torture is quite a different thing from tribulation sent by God. Everyone knows that fasting is a different experience from missing your dinner by accident or through poverty. -CS Lewis

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed--all things are changing. The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change. The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth--"I am the Lord, I change not."  -Charles Spurgeon

How significant the picture of the Apostolic Church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod supreme, the arena of martyrdom awaiting the dawning of the morning to drink up the apostle's blood, and everything else against it. "But prayer was made unto God without ceasing." And what was the sequel? The prison open, the apostle free, the Jews baffled, the wicked king eaten of worms, a spectacle of hidden retribution, and the Word of God rolling on in greater victory.  -AB Simpson

The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. -Oswald Chambers