Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, December 11, 2010

QUAINT WORDS

Welcome to "Quaint Words!”

These posts will contain thoughts, poems, and prayers from old books that I have found at antique stores, flea markets, and garage sales (with an occasional treasure from a bookstore).

I love the rhythm and sound of the older English language, and am blessed by other believers who have gone before me!

(A listing of books and authors, and also dates of individual postings from those books, will be found on my "QUAINT WORDS" page)

"To full obedience how large the blessing! The Lord enters into a league with his people, offensive and defensive. He will bless those who bless us, and curse those who curse us. God will go heart and soul with his people, and enter in deepest sympathy into their position. What a protection this affords us!

We need not concern ourselves about our adversaries, when we are assured that they have become adversaries of God...

In this sacred war we are allied with the eternal God, and if we carefully obey the law of our Lord Jesus, he is engaged to put forth all his power on our behalf. Wherefore we fear no man."

(From "Daily Readings by C.H. Spurgeon" by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, (1834-1892)

BLOG = "Blessedly Leaning On God!"

6 comments:

Michelle DeRushaDecember 11, 2010 at 5:17 AM
I, too, love older English -- I fear what we are losing these days in the turn towards more and more social media!

Blessedly leaning on God...yes! I fear I don't do that nearly enough, pridefully leaning on myself too much.
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MTJDecember 11, 2010 at 5:18 AM
Hi Sharon,

I have long admired the writings of Spurgeon. It is sobering to realize that we are in fact, in a sacred war. A war, in which the enemy of God strives to capture our eternal lives.

The bible says, "If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

We are assured that we have nothing to fear from the attacks of the enemy. We shall stand with Christ triumphantly.

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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Chatty CroneDecember 11, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I love the beautiful image of leaning upon God - don't you? sandie
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SharonDecember 11, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Melissa - Yes, I also fear what we're losing in the growing turn toward social media. We are quickly becoming used to instant (but often, in my opinion, meaningless) communication. The written word, from believers in the past (quaint words), and through the power of God's Word, is an invaluable treasure.

MTJ - It is so important to remember ALWAYS that we are not just skirmishing here and there. We are fighting a WAR. We have a real enemy. And, as you said, he is after our souls. Praise God that He has already won our victory. We need not fear. Just today I read in Revelation:
"I will never erase their names from the Book of Life. I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine!"
THAT is standing triumphantly!

Sandie - Oh yes I do! He's big and strong - nothing better than leaning on the Rock!

GOD BLESS!
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livinginbetweenDecember 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM
Spurgeon -- so intelligent and articulate! Thank you for sharing this gem!
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SharonDecember 12, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Glowin Girl - Spurgeon is great, isn't he?! I'm so glad that you stopped by, and I appreciate your comment.

GOD BLESS!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

Sharon Sharing God

Saturday, December 11, 2010

QUAINT WORDS

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