Sharon Sharing God: QUAINT WORDS

Saturday, June 25, 2011

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!

"Note that the Lord of angels does not come and go, and pay us transient visits, but he and his armies encamp around us. The head-quarters of the army of salvation are where those live whose trust is in the living God. This camp surrounds the faithful, so that they cannot be attacked from any quarter...

We have a fixed protection, a permanent watch...we shall not be surprised by sudden assaults, nor swallowed up by overwhelming forces.

Deliverance is promised...deliverance by the great Captain of our salvation, and that deliverance we shall obtain again and again until our warfare is accomplished and we exchange the field of conflict for the home of rest."

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

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

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6 comments:

DebbieJune 25, 2011 at 4:49 AM
I think I've said a hundred times or so that he's my favorite.

I have been on an uninvited shut down that started before I could even leave for an anniversary getaway. So.... I'm slowly getting back to the land of the living. I'm trying to catch up.

Seeing CHS as your quaint word speaker was a treat.
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MTJJune 25, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Hi Sharon,

Thanks for sharing this quote from Spurgeon. Reading it this morning blessed me as I pondered the promise of what lies ahead:

"Deliverance is promised...deliverance by the great Captain of our salvation, and that deliverance we shall obtain again and again until our warfare is accomplished and we exchange the field of conflict for the home of rest."

Blessings and peace.

MTJ
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CharlotteJune 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Thank you for sharing this encouraging post. Deliverance is promised. I like that. And we know the one who promised it cannot lie. This is such blessed assurance.
Charlotte
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Ginger~~Enchanting CottageJune 25, 2011 at 9:29 PM
This camp surrounds the faithful, so that they cannot be attacked from any quarter~~What a wonderful thought!
God Bless,
Ginger
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Janis Van KeurenJune 25, 2011 at 11:12 PM
So reassuring, Sharon. He will handle all that concerns me until the spiritual warfare is over. It is comforting to know that He surrounds us with a fixed protection. There are no surprises. I can rest in that.
And thank you so much for your guest post while I was gone. Thank you, too, for your thoughtful comments on my other posts during that time.
You are a special blogging friend.
Blessings,
Janis
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SharonJune 27, 2011 at 10:11 AM
Debbie - I hope good old CHS cheered you up. Hoping this was a timely word as you were assaulted by the unexpected enemy of illness!

MTJ - What a wonderful promise we have for victory - DELIVERANCE. That speaks volumes to all the battles that come our way. We will be delivered by the One who won the victory for us.

Charlotte - Blessed assurance. I love that phrase. When I was a little girl, I used to sing that up front in my grandparents' small country church. "Jesus is mine - O, what a foretaste of glory divine! Perfect submission, all is at rest..."

Ginger - I just loved that image, too! It was so comforting, so fortifying. Don't we serve the best Leader of all?! The LORD of Heaven's Armies...

Janis - I liked that idea of a fixed protection, too. No surprises on His calendar. It was my pleasure doing a guest post for you - and I hope you had a nice vacation. You are a special blogging friend to me, too!

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

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Saturday, June 25, 2011

QUAINT WORDS

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