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Skriven 2006-05-02 04:50:40 av Bob Hoffman (8:8/2)
Ärende: Spiritual Sowing
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
May 1, 2006

 

I would like to thank everyone who prayed for my surgery last week. It went
well with only one minor situation. Our great Lord is so good to his people. I
did not realize how much strength could be zapped due to surgery and all that
goes with it. Please continue to pray for my full recovery as my strength
returns. I have been blessed with your concern .... The Body of Christ is a
wonderful blessing.... Thanks.  Robert



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May 2 
Spiritual Sowing 

"He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting"
(Galatians 6:8). 

Sowing looks like a losing business, for we put good corn into the ground never
to see it anymore. Sowing to the Spirit seems a very fanciful, dreamy business;
for we deny ourselves and apparently get nothing for it. Yet if we sow to the
Spirit by studying to live unto God, seeking to obey the will of God, and
laying ourselves out to promote His honor, we shall not sow in vain. Life shall
be our reward, even everlasting life. This we enjoy here as we enter into the
knowledge of God, communion with God, and enjoyment of God. This life flows on
like an ever deepening, ever widening river till it bears us to the ocean of
infinite felicity, where the life of God is ours forever and ever. 

Let us not this day sow to our flesh, for the harvest will be corruption, since
flesh always tends that way; but with holy self conquest let us live for the
highest, purest, and most spiritual ends, seeking to honor our most holy LORD
by obeying His most gracious Spirit. What a harvest will that be when we reap
life everlasting! What sheaves of endless bliss will be reaped! What a festival
will that harvest be! LORD, make us such reapers, for thy Son's sake. 



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The daily business of a Christian 

(William Plumer, "Vital Godliness: A Treatise  on Experimental and Practical
Piety" 1864) 

The daily business of a Christian is to . . .  resist the devil, 
deny himself, 
overcome the world, 
crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts,  imitate Christ, 
walk with God. 




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