FAITH OR EXPERIENCE …

FAITH OR EXPERIENCE …

By the way, I think I have figured out how to hear from you … say
something about politics πŸ™‚ It was good to hear from so many of you in
response to my Freedom Fighter yesterday. Just to clarify one point – I
DID NOT say that you were not a Christian if you were a Democrat. If
that implication was received, please forgive me.

” … the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians
2:20

“We should battle through our moods, feelings, and emotions into
absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. We must break out of our own little
world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New
Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of if the despicable
meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, ‘I haven’t had
this experience or that experience!’

Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides – HE CAN PRESENT US
FAUTLESS BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD, inexpressibly pure, absolutely
righteous, and profoundly justified!!! Stand in absolute adoring faith
‘in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God – and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption ….’ (I Corinthians 1:30). How dare
we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell
and total destruction, and then we talk about making a sacrifice!

We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ –
not a ‘prayer meeting’ Jesus Christ – or a ‘book’ Jesus Christ, but the
New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate, and who ought to
strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our
salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained
devotion to Himself. We can never EXPERIENCE Jesus Christ, or selfishly
bind him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on
strong determined confidence in Him.

It is because of our trusting in experience that we see the steadfast
patience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All our fears are sinful,
and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our
faith. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from
doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting
from perfect, irrepressible triumphant belief.” Good words this morning
from the pen of Oswald Chambers – My Utmost for His Highest

Great quote: Other books were given for our information, the Bible was
given for our transformation.

Anonymous

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WHO’S IN CONTROL ANYWAY?

WHO’S IN CONTROL ANYWAY?

I don’t want to get anyone worked up this morning, but I have been
amazed at how many people I have talked to since election day that are
so down because of the election results. Some are just feeling pretty
morbid and filled with despair.

I have to say that I was very disappointed in the results. I was very
disappointed in the polls that showed how few Christians exercised their
privilege as a citizen of the United States to go out and vote. I heard
so many say “well my vote won’t make a difference!” Well my friend, our
lack of voting did make a difference.

But beyond that I have to remember that God is still on the throne and
is aware of everything that is going on around us. I don’t think that I
am trying to live life like an ostrich with its head buried in the
ground — He is still in control! Now that it is all over, we DO have a
responsibility as citizens of the greatest country on earth to pray for
our elected officials. Yes, you heard me right. You can pray for those
who were elected to office that God will be at work in their hearts just
as He would have been in the heart of the one you wanted to win.

Paul wrote to Titus: “Remind them to be subject to the rulers, to
authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed, to malign
no one, to be uncontentious, gentle, showing consideration for all men.”
(Titus 3:1-2) Now is not the time to bury our heads in the sands. Now is
the time for us as Christians to get on our knees and pray! Pray for
President Bush. Pray for Vice-President Cheney. Pray for our Senators
and Congressmen. Pray that God will bring into their lives the RIGHT
people who can influence them. And why not take it one step further –
names and email addresses are just a click away – why not write a note
today and let your Congressman or Senator know that you are praying for
him/her. They sure get blasted with lots of negative emails. Your note
of encouragement today could make a difference.

I remember an old saying – “It ain’t over until the fat lady sings …”
It isn’t over, my friend. Remember today – God is in control and is
still on the throne! Let’s PUSH together for our country – Pray Until
Something Happens.

Great Quote: We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live
in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to
redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high
privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

Elisabeth Elliot

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PREPARED FOR WORSHIP

PREPARED FOR WORSHIP

“He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to
the Lord and offering in righteousness.” Malachi 3:3

“The quality of our worship is not based on our ACTIVITIES but on our
CHARACTER. Churches can mistakenly assume that the better the music, the
more impressive the building, and the more eloquent the preaching, the
more worshipful the experience will be. Genuine worship, however,
originates within OUR HEARTS. It our relationship with God is not
healthy, all these things are nothing more than religious pageantry.

The Levites were the worship leaders of their day. Their task was to
offer sacrifices on behalf of the people. God declared that before they
could worship Him in righteousness, He would first refine them with His
refiner’s fire, purging them of any impurities. Merely being members of
the religious profession, having official responsibilities in the
temple, and going through the rituals of worship did not guarantee that
their religious activities would be acceptable to holy God.

Today we tend to look to external THINGS to enhance our worship. The
true quality of worship, however, rests within us. If we have not
allowed God to purify us first, our worship will be void of His
presence. If we do not have a pure heart, we may give offerings, but
they will be unacceptable to God. Attending a religious service will not
automatically ensure and encounter with God.

If you are not satisfied with the QUALITY of your worship, don’t be too
quick to blame your environment. Look first to your OWN HEART! Allow God
to refine YOUR HEART until it is pleasing to Him, and you will be free
to worship God as He intends.” From EXPERIENCING GOD – THE DEVOTIONAL

Good words for this day when we gather together to worship HIM!

Great quote: In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will
give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him…that we spend a while
thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in
silence, occupying ourselves with Him–totally and thoroughly lost in
the hiding place of His presence. — Charles (Chuck) Swindoll

HOW TO USE VICTORY

HOW TO USE VICTORY

“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, He went out,
and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” Mark 1:35

“This incident in the life of our Lord occurred AFTER what one would
call a most successful day. He had endured the fierce onslaught in the
wilderness, driven there for the devil to do his worst, and had come off
MORE THAN A CONQUEREOR, for we read that ‘angels came and ministered to
Him.’ If after a season of temptation a saint retains the power that
draws the purest spirits to him, he may feel assured that the temptation
has been gone through with successfully.

Our Lord call the men who were to be His disciples, and they had
promptly left all and followed Him; He had had a triumphant time in
Capernaum, casting out demons and setting men and women free. The fame
and success of this mysterious Being grew, and we read that ‘all the
city was gathered together at the door.’ It was after this time of
eminent success in relieving men and blessing them that Jesus departed
into a solitary place and spent the night in prayer.

“And in the morning, rising up A GREAT WHILE BEFORE THE DAY, He went
out, and departed into a solitary place, and there He prayed!’ I wonder
what that night and early dawn hid? Our Lord went through HIS days with
such easy power; what did He do in this solitary moments alone with God?
Did He go back, in mind at least, to the glory which He had with the
Father before the world was? Did He recline on the bosom of the Father
and hear unspeakable words bit lawful to utter? Such thoughts as these
are not presumptuous but the mediations of the heart that knows what
communion with God means.

If that communion means so much to a HUMAN heart that has been saved and
sanctified through the Atonement, what must it have meant to the Son of
God? What is was OUR LORD experienced is hidden from us, yet we too in
our measure have had the unspeakable experience, if rare, when the dark
night of Nature gives place to the dawn, when the huge and thoughtful
silence of the night makes every that is petty and trifling fall away,
and lifts us into the larger isolation, which is no isolation but the
realization of the PRESENCE OF GOD!

Where do we place the night of prayer and the dawn of intercession in
our “soul’s” calendar? Do we place it AFTER a day of marvelous success
in work for God? If we do not, our souls are in peril. When our souls
have been lifted into the presence of God and we have grasped some truth
with new illumination, how much time have we spent in prayer for those
servants whom God has used us to bless? We allow ourselves to imagine
that it would be presumptuous on our part to pray for the ‘Paul’s’; but
it is a snare of Satan.

“He departed into a SOLITARY place …’ And notice He tells us to do the
same … “But when YOU pray, enter into your closet, and when you have
shut the door, pray to the Father which is in secret.’ Any soul who has
not this solitary place alone with God is in supreme peril spiritually.
Let us ask ourselves if we have allowed the solitary places to be broken
down our built over with altars that look beautiful, and people passing
by saying ‘How spiritual that man or woman must be!’ Such an altar, if
there is no other in the solitary place, is an insult to the deep work
of God in our souls. God grant that we may learn more and more of the
profound joy of getting alone with God in the dark of the night and
toward the early dawn.” Adapted from THE COMPLETE WORKS OF OSWALD
CHAMBERS (He Shall Glorify Me) Published by Discovery House

Great quote: To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that
lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along with tears. Can
one be moved with compassion and not know tears? Jeremiah was a sobbing
saint. Jesus wept! So did Paul. So did John…Though there are some
tearful intercessors behind the scenes, I grant you that to our modern
Christianity, praying is foreign. Leonard Ravenhill

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EQUIPMENT CHECK

EQUIPMENT CHECK

“Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:11)
It is always wise to inspect your motorcycle before you go on a
long ride. Unfortunately, I learned this lesson a little too late. As
we were getting ready to leave for a men’s retreat from our church, I
began to hear a little rattle coming from my exhaust pipes. I thought
it may have been a loose baffle inside the pipe so I attempted to
tighten it. As I investigated further, I realized it was a missing nut
that connected the exhaust pipe to the manifold at the engine head. It
had apparently fallen off on a previous ride. Apart from the obvious
exhaust leak, that annoying rattle was with me for the whole time I rode
out from Toms River, NJ to Lancaster, PA via Delaware and Maryland. I’m
thankful it was only that. Had it been something more significant like
a loose front wheel nut, or something that could have been catastrophic
like that, I would not be writing this devotional at this time. I would
probably not be here at all. Checking your equipment is essential if
you are going to have a safe, enjoyable ride.
The Apostle Paul sums up his letter to the Ephesians by giving
them an equipment check. We are to put on the whole armor of God. It
is interesting to notice the tense in which these pieces of equipment
are described. For the first three articles of armor, it is implied
that all believers are clothed in them at the moment of salvation. The
belt of truth buckled around your waist. The breastplate of
righteousness having been put on. Also, the feet are fitted with the
readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. All three of these
pieces of divine equipment are set in place the moment we receive Christ
as Savior. However, there are the other components that we are
instructed to “take up.” This is an active form that we are responsible
to do daily. We are to take up the shield of faith. We are to daily
walk in the faith and trust that God knows what’s best for us. He is
the ultimate road captain that has the best route for our lives mapped
out. As we take the helmet of salvation, our mind and emotions are
guarded from danger as we set our minds on things above, not things on
the earth (Col. 3:2). We become transformed by the renewing of our
minds. The whole purpose of a helmet is to protect your head from
injury. As we put our helmet of salvation on, our minds are guarded in
Christ (cf. Phil. 4:7). The sword of the Spirit which is the word of
God, is not only a defensive weapon, like the previous five pieces of
equipment, but is also an offensive weapon in the sense that you can
counter the attacks against you by skillfully using your sword. This
sword is sharper than any double edged sword in that it can divide not
only the joints and marrow, but also the soul and the spirit as well as
judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart(cf. Heb. 4:12). The
last piece of equipment – prayer – is not usually considered a part of
the armor, but is an invaluable component. The great reformer Martin
Luther stated, “to be a Christian without prayer is no more possible
than to be alive without breathing.” Prayer is the essential piece of
equipment that energizes the other components of the armor. It gives you
insight into the truths of God’s word. Prayer reaffirms your right
standing with the Father through Christ. For by it, we may approach the
Father in confidence. Prayer also is the vehicle whereby we ask God to
prepare the hearts of those we share the good news with, that they would
have ears to hear and hearts to respond to the gospel that brings peace.
It empowers us to walk by faith and not by sight. Lastly, prayer keeps
our minds fixed on God, as well as enabling us to take captive every
thought making it obedient to Christ (2 Cor. 10:3-5). Rev. Michael P.
Woods

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PRIDE

PRIDE

“Anything that resembles pride or a spirit of ridicule reveals a person
that is full of himself. This sort of person doesn’t see his own faults
but takes pleasure in the hard times of others. Here is you self-nature
at its worst: easily wounded, full of contempt, haughty, jealous,
unforgiving, and lacking graciousness.

You and I are NOT perfect. You must be patient with your faults and with
the faults of others. Be practical about your expectations. No one will
become perfect in a day. Even the most perfect people have many
imperfections – this means that you have many faults, too! If you are
impatient with the faults of others it only shows you how imperfect YOU
are. Your faults and my faults make getting along with one another a
hard thing! But we can only fulfill the law of Christ by bearing with
each other.

On the other hand, do not excuse your faults or the faults of others.
Let your love, patience, and willingness to overlook shortcomings flow
between you and all you associate with. Do not pick at other’s faults.
No one enjoys that and it only pushes people further away from what is
right. You may even cause someone to become so discouraged that they
turn back after making their first wobbly steps toward God. Give you
your critical nature and stay in touch with Christ within you. Encourage
yourself and those around you to give up pride and selfishness.

Live a simple life before God. Accept what God allows in your life. Do
not let yourself get inwardly irritated by the SMALL troubles and
problems that cross your life. Endure them as you would a headache
without making them worse than they are. When things are difficult in
your life, prayer will be harder, love will be less tender, and God’s
presence will be less easily felt. Just learn to be faithful during
these trying times – that is all that God asks.

It is greater strength that carries a boat against the wind for a
quarter of a knot, than for an entire knot with the wind helping you.
Treat the complaints of your self-nature as some people treat their
spoiled appetites. Do not listen to them and act as if you did not feel
them.” From THE SEEKING HEART by Fenelon

Great quote: “Justification by faith is not an end in itself. It is
meant to remove every obstacle out of the way so we can get to God. Who
cares if we are made right with God if we don’t get God? God gets glory
when He’s our treasure-our goal. Justification gets every barrier out of
the way and brings us home to our Father and the banquet table of His
love.” Message by John Piper

Men’s Fellowship tonight at 6:15 PM – Dinner, Worship and Praise and a
message my Pastor Tony Cuellar. Afterwards enjoy the Activity Center.
Come and bring a friend. Call for reservations – 732-350-1187.

THE WORD OF GOD AS A WEAPON

THE WORD OF GOD AS A WEAPON

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is
the Word of God.” Ephesians 6:17

“The Spirit-filled man has enemies; he is engaged in warfare. The powers
of hell are all against him. He is always open to attack and momentarily
liable to defeat. He needs both defensive and offensive weapons. He must
be able to stand and withstand in every assault of Satan .

There is but one way this can be done and it is the way the God-man
used. His only weapon in the wilderness was the Sword of the Spirit. ‘It
is written,’ repeated three times in the threefold attack, repulsed the
enemy.

Let us not that the God-man had His sword burnished and ready. He did
not wait to draw out the scroll of Scripture and read from it to get an
answer for the devil. In the years of seclusion in the Nazareth home he
had stored away the Word of God in His heart, and in the hours of quiet
work in the carpenter’s shop He had mediated upon them. It may be that
the Son of Man had gone into the wilderness fresh from the study of
Deuteronomy. His mind was so saturated with its truth that when Satan
attacked, the Spirit instantly brought to remembrance the very words
that utterly routed him. The Son of Man was kept in the moment of
temptation by the Word hid in His heart.

Deuteronomy 11:18 – Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your
heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that
they may be as frontlets between your eyes.”

Psalm 119:11 – “Thy Word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin
against thee.”

Colossians 3:16 – “Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all
wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual psalms, singing with grace in your heart.”

Often the reason we yield so quickly to temptation is that our sword is
rusty. This gives Satan the advantage over us. Temptation comes to us on
the street, in the office, when we may not have a Bible with us. It
comes unexpectedly. There is no time to stop and search for an effectual
portion of Scripture. It is only the part of the Word that is hid in
the heart that will become the SWORD IN ACTION at the moment most
needed.

Many Christians are defeated today in the warfare against sin and Satan
because of doubt regarding their weapon, the Word of God. To them the
Word is not the Sword of the Spirit but it is merely a staff of man’s
making to assist him on the pathway of life which he feels at liberty to
whittle down to the measure of his own intellect and experience. Belief
in the absolute trustworthiness and final authority of the Word is an
essential to the potent use of it as the Sword.” From LIFE ON THE
HIGHEST PLANE

You can start memorizing one verse a day. Your THINK VICTORY! Memory
verse is on the Keswick website homepage. You can memorize God’s Word
along with the men of the Colony of Mercy. During their 120-day stay,
they will memorize 120 verses of Scripture. http://www.americaskeswick.org.

Men’s Fellowship Night – tomorrow night with Pastor Tony Cuellar. Call
for reservations. Come and bring a friend. 732-350-1187

THE POWER OF THE WORD

THE POWER OF THE WORD

Here are some reminders these next several days of the POWER OF GOD’S
WORD

The Word of God is a mirror to reveal. (James 1:23-25) A mirror
reveals the personal appearance of the one who looks into it. The Bible
is just such a revelation of man. In it we see the human heart mirrored
exactly as it is in the sight of God. We have in the Word full-length
portraits of the natural, spiritual and carnal man. As one studies the
Bible he finds HIMSELF; mirrored in the lives of men and women who lived
centuries ago he sees himself. In the covetousness of Achan, the
backsliding of David, the despondency of Elijah, the avarice of Job, the
falsehood of Annanias and Sapphira, the denial of Peter, the
self-righteousness of Saul of Tarsus and the jealousy, unbelief and
self-seeking of the disciples, he looks into his OWN sinful heart and
his own wayward life.

The Bible takes the covering the inmost spirit and unveils its
secret thoughts and motives. It shows us to ourselves as we are. But it
does not stop there. It unfolds to man’s vision the perfect Man. He
“beholds as in a glass the glory of the Lord” for in the Word, God gives
“the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ.’ Then the Bible challenges him, who has seen himself as he is
and as he may become, to act upon the vision, to become the DOER of the
Word in order that He may be conformed to the image of Christ. (adapted
from LIFE ON THE HIGHEST PLANE by Ruth Paxson)

Did you take this morning to use the Word of God as a mirror? I
am excited to share with you that we are now placing the daily memory
verses that are used by the men in the COLONY OF MERCY. Each man
memorizes 120 THINK VICTORY! Verses during his stay. Over the years guys
have asked for the verses we use and the verse for the day will be on
the home page (www.americaskeswick.org). Sometime in the next week we
will also have the entire list posted for your use. Be watching for
other THINK VICTORY! Resources.

Join us Thursday night for our November Men’s Fellowship Night with
Pastor Tony Cuellar. Tony’s ministry of the Word will bless your heart
and challenge you to walk in victory. For reservations and information,
call 732-350-1187.

TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED

TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED

I have been in bed most of the weekend with the “flu” so I just got up.
Sorry that your Freedom Fighter was delayed this morning.

I just read an on-line article yesterday by Jon Gordon, who is a life
coach in helping men be all that God wants them to be. Some of his stuff
is a little out there, but yesterday’s article dealt with how to handle
stress.

The premise of his article was that when you and I maintain a spirit of
thankfulness at all times, stress is much easier to handle. So often
when the pressures of life are mounting and it seems like things are
caving in around us, we forget about how blessed we are.

Thursday night before going to be we noticed that we were smelling oil
fumes from our basement. As the night went on it got worse and worse. In
the morning when I called our maintenance staff, they discovered that we
had a leak in the oil tank. Not good. We have two large tanks in our
basement. They called the Oil company and they quickly decided that they
needed to drain the tank and remove them.

The problem was that in order to remove them, Jan had to go through
hoops to get stuff moved. She has made a commitment to do Zach’s
homeschooling in the mornings, and this was a major interruption.
Everything in the kitchen and laundry room needed to be removed. The
good news is that by the end of the day, the new tank was in and we were
able to put the house back together. For Jan, it was a very stressful
day.

Saturday morning I stopped over to the main building to drop something
off and came home to Jan being hysterical. When they put back our washer
and dryer (located off the kitchen) the drain hose didn’t get put back
into the drain line! There was water EVERYWHERE – kitchen, laundry room
and basement. Again, very stressful.

Those may seem like too minor stressor compared to what you are facing.
Jon suggests that when the stress is mounting, we should step back and
review how blessed we are and rehearse them in our minds. Rather than
focusing on the negative (stress), be reminded of the positive
(blessing). Reminded me of the old song we will sing during this month:

When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed.
When you are discouraged thinking all is lost.
Count your many blessings name them one by one
And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.
When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings. Wealth can never buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.
So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
Good words as we begin this new week.
Join us this Thursday night for our Men’s Fellowship Night with Pastor
Tony Cuellar. Pastor Tony serves at Immanuel Bible Church in Vineland,
NJ. Dinner begins at 6:15 PM followed by the program and the use of the
Activity Center. Call today for reservations. 732-350-1187

PICK UP THE HARP

PICK UP THE HARP

“Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring and offering and
come before Him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” 1
Chronicles 16:29

“Man was made to worship God. God gave to man a harp and said, ‘Here
above all creatures that I have made and created I have given you the
largest harp. I put more strings on your instrument and I have given you
a wider range than I have given to any other creature. You can worship
Me in a manner that no other creature can …’

The purpose of God in sending His Son to die and rise and live and be at
the right hand of God that Father was that He might restore to us the
missing jewel, the jewel of worship; that we might come back and learn
to do again that which we were created to do in the first place –
worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, to spend our time in awesome
wonder and adoration of God, feeling and expressing it, and letting it
get into our labors and doing nothing except as an act of worship to
Almighty God through His Son Jesus Christ.

I say that the greatest tragedy in the world today is that God has made
man in His image and made him to worship Him, made him to play the harp
of worship before the face of God day and night, but he has failed God
and dropped the harp. It lies voiceless at his feet. Help me, Father, to
pick up the harp and bring You the glory due to Your name. I’ve come to
know You in a deeper way; may I respond with heartfelt worship, today
and every day. Amen.” Adapted from TOZER ON THE ALMIGHTY GOD – A DAILY
DEVOTIONAL by Ron Eggert

Great quote: It takes less time to do something right than it does to
explain why you did it wrong.