“Be still and know that I am God” (Ps 46:10)…

In reflective quietness and solitude, having meditated much in God’s Word, is where we learn to discern the voice of God above all other voices!

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God or not: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1)

If what you are hearing does not line up with our spiritual plumbline, the Holy counsel of God’s Word, then you can know going out the gate that you are in error and are headed in the wrong direction.

Satan is a master of deception, whom the Bible says sometimes appears as an “angel of light” (2 Cor 11:14).

We read in the Bible how Jesus called him the “father of liars” (John 8:44); and his strategy and modus operandi is ALWAYS to bring in confusion and to get us off course from following God’s Word.

Satan will always attack us at our weakest moment, and he will always use yesterday’s abuses and/or tomorrow fears and anxiety, and the fact that he has had plenty of experience throughout the ages in pushing the buttons of people, like you and me, and in knowing how to back us into a corner, put on the pressure and apply the heat, all in order to push us off course.

This is exactly what he did in the garden of Eden, with Eve, and he has been doing it ever since, all in order to confuse and to deceive, in order that he may keep us from discerning and following God’s voice.

Jesus Christ is our ONLY true North and the only way we can be assured that we are on course is that we have to lineup everything we do and hear, including all of our doctrine and what we believe, with the inerrant counsel of God’s Word!

Let us each learn to be led of the Spirit, yes; but also, of necessity, least we drift off course, let  us ALWAYS keep our balance and monitor our heading, making course corrections along the way, using God’s Word as our spiritual compass.

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16).

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Ps 150:6
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Take control of your thoughts 

“For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Tim 1:7)

“Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity EVERY thought to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Cor 10:5)

“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.  

Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.

But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand.

When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

Let Jesus be your bridge over troubled water…

Video link

Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water (with lyrics)…: https://youtu.be/jjNgn4r6SOA

When you’re weary, feeling small
When tears are in your eyes,
I will dry them all
I’m on your side

When times get rough
And friends just can’t be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

When you’re down and out
When you’re on the street
When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I’ll take your part

When darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down
Sail on silver girl
Sail on by

Your time has come to shine
All your dreams are on their way
See how they shine

When you need a friend
I’m sailing right behind
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind

Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind
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The Carpenter

Once upon a time, two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict.

It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side-by-side, sharing machinery and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch.

Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference and finally, it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.

One morning there was a knock on John’s door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter’s toolbox. “I’m looking for a few days’ work,” he said. “Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there I could help with? Could I help you?”

“Yes,” said the older brother. “I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm. That’s my neighbor. In fact, it’s my younger brother! Last week there was a meadow between us. He recently took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I’ll do him one better. See that pile of lumber by the barn? I want you to build me a fence an 8-foot fence — so I won’t need to see his place or his face anymore.”

The carpenter said, “I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I’ll be able to do a job that pleases you.”

The older brother had to go to town, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day. The carpenter worked hard all that day — measuring, sawing and nailing. About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job.

The farmer’s eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped. There was no fence there at all.

It was a bridge… a bridge that stretched from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work, handrails and all! And the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming toward them, his hand outstretched…

“You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I’ve said and done.”

The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in middle, taking each other’s hand.

Bridging the Gap

If you say you’ll let something be “water under the bridge” then you must stop wading in the water. Take the bridge to reach people, it’s a safer more steady trip and it even works if you can’t swim.
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When times are rough and your back’s against the wall and nobody seems to understand, let Jesus show you the way.

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Charles Spurgeon: Morning and Evening

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

“Underneath are the everlasting arms.”
Deuteronomy 33:27

God–the eternal God–is himself our support at all times, and especially when we are sinking in deep trouble.

There are seasons when the Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless.

Well, child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet “underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.”

Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all.

You may have descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as “the uttermost;” and to the uttermost he saves.

Again, the Christian sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly prop is cut away. What then?

Still underneath him are “the everlasting arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still encircle him.

The Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the reach of the “everlasting arms”–they are underneath him; and, while thus sustained, all Satan’s efforts to harm him avail nothing.

This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker in the service of God.

It implies a promise of strength for each day, grace for each need, and power for each duty.

And, further, when death comes, the promise shall still hold good.

When we stand in the midst of Jordan, we shall be able to say with David, “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.”

We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no lower, for the eternal arms prevent our further fall.

All through life, and at its close, we shall be upheld by the “everlasting arms”–arms that neither flag nor lose their strength, for “the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary.”

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