[Faith-talk] Fwd: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah

[eric calhoun]

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> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 06:00:39 -0600 (CST)
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> Subject: Today's Turning Point with David Jeremiah
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> Today's Turning Point
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> Thursday, January 3
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> Deferred Performance
> 
> Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I
> wait for You.
> Psalm 25:21
> 
> Recommended Reading
> Isaiah 40:31
> 
> The eighteenth century English minister, Matthew
> Henry, wrote, "Cast not away your confidence because
> God defers His performances. That which does not
> come in your time, will be hastened in His time,
> which is always the more convenient season. He is
> not bound to keep our time, but He will perform His
> word, honour our faith, and reward them that
> diligently seek Him." *
> 
> Sometimes it can seem like God does not show up when
> we want Him to. But as Henry states, God simply
> defers His performances at times in order to teach
> us the concept of active waiting. God's desire is
> not for us to stop serving Him simply because we are
> waiting for His answer. He wants us to seek Him all
> the more and be about His business during the
> waiting period, for it is in those precious times
> that we learn to be dependent upon God alone and not
> upon an answer to our prayer.
> 
> We need to keep doing what is right, living in a
> godly manner, knowing that the Lord will answer in
> His time. Let us not be anxiously moving ahead, but
> patiently waiting for Him.
> 
> I will charge my soul to believe and wait for Him,
> and will follow His providence, and not go before
> it, nor stay behind it."
> Samuel Rutherford
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> Read-Thru-the-Bible
> Genesis 7:1 - 10:32
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