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When We Are ReadyBlessed are all they that wait for him – Isa 30:18We hear a great deal about waiting on God. There is, ...
06/09/2024

When We Are Ready

Blessed are all they that wait for him – Isa 30:18

We hear a great deal about waiting on God. There is, however, another side. When we wait on God, He is waiting till we are ready; when we wait for God, we are waiting till He is ready.

There are some people who say, and many more who believe, that as soon as we meet all the conditions, God will answer our prayers. They say that God lives in an eternal now; with Him there is no past nor future; and that if we could fulfill all that He requires in the way of obedience to His will, immediately our needs would be supplied, our desires fulfilled, our prayers answered.

There is much truth in this belief, and yet it expresses only one side of the truth. While God lives in an eternal now, yet He works out His purposes in time. A petition presented before God is like a seed dropped in the ground. Forces above and beyond our control must work upon it, till the true fruition of the answer is given.—The Still Small Voice

I longed to walk along an easy road,
And leave behind the dull routine of home,
Thinking in other fields to serve my God;
But Jesus said, “My time has not yet come.”

I longed to sow the seed in other soil,
To be unfettered in the work, and free,
To join with other laborers in their toil;
But Jesus said, “’Tis not My choice for thee.”

I longed to leave the desert, and be led
To work where souls were sunk in sin and shame,
That I might win them; but the Master said,
“I have not called thee, publish here My name.”

I longed to fight the battles of my King,
Lift high His standards in the thickest strife;
But my great Captain bade me wait and sing
Songs of His conquests in my quiet life.

I longed to leave the uncongenial sphere,
Where all alone I seemed to stand and wait,
To feel I had some human helper near,
But Jesus bade me guard one lonely gate.

I longed to leave the round of daily toil,
Where no one seemed to understand or care;
But Jesus said, “I choose for thee this soil,
That thou might’st raise for Me some blossoms rare.”

And now I have no longing but to do
At home, or else afar, His blessed will,
To work amid the many or the few;
Thus, “choosing not to choose,” my heart is still.
—Selected

“And Patience was willing to wait.”—Pilgrim’s Progress (Streams)🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 to all of you, in India and all around the globe 🌎 ! Let’s praise the Lord for our natio...
15/08/2024

Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 to all of you, in India and all around the globe 🌎 !
Let’s praise the Lord for our nation and the years of freedom we’ve enjoyed!
Let’s continue to pray for God’s mercy to be showered upon our country❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Psa 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

25/07/2024

Heritage Baptist Church Bangalore, presents an Easter Cantata by Joe E Parks, “ALIVE”

(Late in posting this, but enjoy and share)
Jesus IS Alive!

Degrees of FaithLet me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece – Judg 6:39There are degrees to faith. At one s...
22/07/2024

Degrees of Faith

Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece – Judg 6:39

There are degrees to faith. At one stage of Christian experience we cannot believe unless we have some sign or some great manifestation of feeling. We feel our fleece, like Gideon, and if it is wet we are willing to trust God. This may be true faith, but it is imperfect. It always looks for feeling or some token besides the Word of God. It marks quite an advance in faith when we trust God without feelings. It is blessed to believe without having any emotion.

There is a third stage of faith which even transcends that of Gideon and his fleece. The first phase of faith believes when there are favorable emotions, the second believes when there is the absence of feeling, but this third form of faith believes God and His Word when circumstances, emotions, appearances, people, and human reason all urge to the contrary. Paul exercised this faith in Acts 27:20, 25, “And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.” Notwithstanding all this Paul said, “Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.”

May God give us faith to fully trust His Word though everything else witness the other way. —C. H. P.

When is the time to trust?
Is it when all is calm,
When waves the victor’s palm,
And life is one glad psalm
Of joy and praise?
Nay! but the time to trust
Is when the waves beat high,
When storm clouds fill the sky,
And prayer is one long cry,
O help and save!

When is the time to trust?
Is it when friends are true?
Is it when comforts woo,
And in all we say and do
We meet but praise?
Nay! but the time to trust
Is when we stand alone,
And summer birds have flown,
And every prop is gone,
All else but God.

What is the time to trust?
Is it some future day,
When you have tried your way,
And learned to trust and pray
By bitter woe?
Nay! but the time to trust
Is in this moment’s need,
Poor, broken, bruised reed!
Poor, troubled soul, make speed
To trust thy God.

What is the time to trust?
Is it when hopes beat high,
When sunshine gilds the sky,
And joy and ecstasy
Fill all the heart?
Nay! but the time to trust
Is when our joy is fled,
When sorrow bows the head,
And all is cold and dead,
All else but God.
—Selected (Streams)🙏🏽

21/07/2024

Heritage Baptist Church Bangalore, welcomes you to join us for fellowship today:

* Sunday School (for all ages) at 9 am

* Morning Service at 10 am

* BOB (Band of Brothers) & WINGS (Women In God’s Service) fellowship after the morning service (followed by lunch)

* House2House at 6 pm

* Come and be Blessed!📖🙏🏼⛪️❤️

SELFISH SHEPHERDS (Ezekiel 34:1-16)The shepherds of this chapter were not the religious leaders of the people, but ruler...
19/07/2024

SELFISH SHEPHERDS (Ezekiel 34:1-16)

The shepherds of this chapter were not the religious leaders of the people, but rulers who sought in their government not the good of the people but their own selfish ends (very much like the politicians today).
But the statements made by the prophet may be rightly applied to rapacious priests who care more for the fleece than for the flock.
Pastors are required to lead the flock of God not for filthy lucre but as examples for the sheep, 1Pe 5:2-3. It is their duty, also, to strengthen the spiritually diseased, heal the sick, bind up the broken in heart, and seek the lost.

Notice the tender manner in which the Lord Jesus Himself supplies the deficiencies of His unfaithful servants.
In beautiful contrast to their selfish cruelty and rapacity, He sets Himself in cloudy and dark days to gather and tend His people, though they had been as scattered sheep, each taking his own way.

When the ministers of His Church fail in their duty, the Lord hastens to supply their lack. Without doubt these gracious promises refer primarily to the Lord’s Second Advent, when He will seek out and deliver His Chosen People, and bring them to their own land.

But surely we must not limit the reference thus. We are His sheep, by purchase and by choice. He knows us, as we know Him. He has sought and saved us. He feds us and causes us to lie down beside the waters of rest. (F. B. Meyer)🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

“WINDOWS IN HEAVEN” (2 Kings 7:1-11)There is a sore famine just now over the whole world-a famine of God’s Word. For so...
09/07/2024

“WINDOWS IN HEAVEN” (2 Kings 7:1-11)

There is a sore famine just now over the whole world-a famine of God’s Word.
For some years the Church has felt its growing severity, but there are two classes within her borders: they who believe that God can open the windows of heaven, and pour down such a blessing that there will not be room to receive it, Mal 3:10; and those who, like the unbelieving courtier, jeer at the hope of the saints.
Let us answer the skeptic’s “Can God?” by the positive achievements of faith.

When God sends blessings to His people, He rarely takes methods that we might expect.
Rather, He chooses the weak and foolish things, yea, those that are not, to confound those that are, so as to prevent flesh from glorying in His presence.

Whenever, in the first glint of the morning light, you discover the divine answer to your prayers, in all its plenteous abundance, do not keep the good news to yourself lest punishment overtake you, but be sure to bear the glad tidings to others.
When it is a day of good tidings, be sure to act upon them, in faith and patience, counting it a sin to hold your peace.

The lepers were first in the deserted camp. (2 Kings 7:12-20). The abundance was awaiting the starving populace, but only a few outcasts tasted it. So Christ’s wealth and unsearchable riches are for all, but often the outcasts gathered by the Salvation Army know more about them than the children of the church.
The cottager who early opens his window for his sick child, knows more of the summer morning, than does the millionaire who sleeps within curtained windows.
But be sure you tell out what you know, else you sin against God and man.
There is enough for all. To scatter is to increase.
Though this plenty had been predicted, it seemed too good to be believed.

Send out your scouts, O Church of God! As the result of our Lord’s victory at Calvary, the roads-north, south, east, and west-have been trodden by your fleeing foes, and are strewn, with spoil.
But beware lest, in the day of the Lord’s deliverance, you see with your eyes but are unable, through unbelief, to partake, Luk 13:28.
Man’s unbelief cannot hinder God’s purpose, but it excludes the unbeliever, who perishes amid abundance. (F.B.Meyer)🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Step Out BoldlyWhen thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Prov 4...
04/07/2024

Step Out Boldly

When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Prov 4:12

The Lord never builds a bridge of faith except under the feet of the faith-filled traveler. If He builds the bridge a rod ahead, it would not be a bridge of faith. That which is of sight is not of faith.

There is a self-opening gate which is sometimes used in country roads. It stands fast and firm across the road as a traveler approaches it. If he stops before he gets to it, it will not open. But if he will drive right at it, his wagon wheels press the springs below the roadway, and the gate swings back to let him through. He must push right on at the closed gate, or it will continue to be closed.

This illustrates the way to pass every barrier on the road of duty. Whether it is a river, a gate, or a mountain, all the child of Jesus has to do is to go for it. If it is a river, it will dry up when you put your feet in its waters. If it is a gate, it will fly open when you are near enough to it, and are still pushing on. If it is a mountain, it will be lifted up and cast into a sea when you come squarely up, without flinching, to where you thought it was.

Is there a great barrier across your path of duty just now? Just go for it, in the name of the Lord, and it won’t be there. —Henry Clay Trumbull

We sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty said, “Up and onward forevermore.”
Let us move on and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
The path will open, as we progress, like the trail through the forest, or the Alpine pass, which discloses but a few rods of its length from any single point of view.

Press on!
If necessary, we will find even the pillar of cloud and fire to mark our journey through the wilderness. There are guides and wayside inns along the road. We will find food, clothes and friends at every stage of the journey, and as Rutherford so quaintly says: “However matters go, the worst will be a tired traveler and a joyful and sweet welcome home.”

I’m going by the upper road, for that
still holds the sun,
I’m climbing through night’s pastures where the starry rivers run:

If you should think to seek me in my
old dark abode,
You’ll find this writing on the door,
“He’s on the Upper Road.”
—Selected (Streams)

Have a Blessed Day/night!

I Heard a Still VoiceIt stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was ...
30/06/2024

I Heard a Still Voice

It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying – Job 4:16

A score of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought—that God was waiting in the depths of my being to talk to me if I would only get still enough to hear His voice.

I thought this would be a very easy matter, and so began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din.

Some were my own voices, my own questions, some my very prayers. Others were suggestions of the tempter and the voices from the world’s turmoil.

In every direction I was pulled and pushed and greeted with noisy acclamations and unspeakable unrest. It seemed necessary for me to listen to some of them and to answer some of them; but God said,

“Be still, and know that I am God.” Then came the conflict of thoughts for tomorrow, and its duties and cares; but God said, “Be still.”

And as I listened, and slowly learned to obey, and shut my ears to every sound, I found after a while that when the other voices ceased, or I ceased to hear them, there was a still small voice in the depths of my being that began to speak with an inexpressible tenderness, power and comfort.

As I listened, it became to me the voice of prayer, the voice of wisdom, the voice of duty, and I did not need to think so hard, or pray so hard, or trust so hard; but that “still small voice” of the Holy Spirit in my heart was God’s prayer in my secret soul, was God’s answer to all my questions, was God’s life and strength for soul and body, and became the substance of all knowledge, and all prayer and all blessing: for it was the living GOD Himself as my life, my all.

It is thus that our spirit drinks in the life of our risen Lord, and we go forth to life’s conflicts and duties like a flower that has drunk in, through the shades of night, the cool and crystal drops of dew. But as dew never falls on a stormy night, so the dews of His grace never come to the restless soul. —A. B. Simpson (Streams)

The Answer is GodFor what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? - Rom 3:3 ...
27/06/2024

The Answer is God

For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
- Rom 3:3

I think that I can trace every scrap of sorrow in my life to simple unbelief. How could I be anything but quite happy if I believed always that all the past is forgiven, and all the present furnished with power, and all the future bright with hope because of the same abiding facts which do not change with my mood, do not stumble because I totter and stagger at the promise through unbelief, but stand firm and clear with their peaks of pearl cleaving the air of Eternity, and the bases of their hills rooted unfathomably in the Rock of God. Mont Blanc does not become a phantom or a mist because a climber grows dizzy on its side. —James Smetham

Is it any wonder that, when we stagger at any promise of God through unbelief, we do not receive it? Not that faith merits an answer, or in any way earns it, or works it out; but God has made believing a condition of receiving, and the Giver has a sovereign right to choose His own terms of gift. —Rev. Samuel Hart

Unbelief says, “How can such and such things be?” It is full of “hows”; but faith has one great answer to the ten thousand “hows,” and that answer is—GOD! —C. H. M.

No praying man or woman accomplishes so much with so little expenditure of time as when he or she is praying.

If there should arise, it has been said—and the words are surely true to the thought of our Lord Jesus Christ in all His teaching on prayer—if there should arise ONE UTTERLY BELIEVING MAN, the history of the world might be changed.
Will YOU not be that one in the providence and guidance of God our Father? —A. E. McAdam

Prayer without faith degenerates into objectless routine, or soulless hypocrisy. Prayer with faith brings Omnipotence to back our petitions. Better not pray unless and until your whole being responds to the efficacy of your supplication. When the true prayer is breathed, earth and heaven, the past and the future, say Amen. And Christ prayed such prayers. —P. C. M.

“Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.” (Streams)🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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