Monday, November 3rd, 2014 “1st Voice” My Utmost for His Highest “A bond-slave of Jesus” “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20. ________________________________________ My determination is to be my utmost for His Highest. ________________________________________ To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. ________________________________________ ISAIAH 50: 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. 5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. ________________________________________ Run Today’s Race: “For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about Him.”… Oswald Chambers ________________________________________ My Utmost for His Highest: by Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) ________________________________________ “A bond-slave of Jesus” “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20. These words mean the breaking of my independence with my own hand and surrendering to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me to the point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot put me through it. It means breaking the husk of my individual independence of God, and the emancipation of my personality into oneness with Himself, not for my own ideas, but for absolute loyalty to Jesus. There is no possibility of dispute when once I am there. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ—“For my sake.” It is that which makes the iron saint. Has that break come? All the rest is pious fraud. The one point to decide is—Will I give up, will I surrender to Jesus Christ, and make no conditions whatever as to how the break comes? I must be broken from my self-realization, and immediately that point is reached, the reality of the supernatural identification takes place at once, and the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable—“I have been crucified with Christ.” The passion of Christianity is that I deliberately sign away my own rights and become a bond-slave of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I do not begin to be a saint. One student a year who hears God’s call would be sufficient for God to have called this College into existence. This College as an organization is not worth anything, it is not academic; it is for nothing else but for God to help Himself to lives. Is he going to help Himself to us, or are we taken up with our conception of what we are going to be? ________________________________________ Prayer is not just an exercise routine God has us on; It’s our business, Our only business. Prayer is our holy occupation. Plain and simple: ________________________________________ OUR HOLY OCCUPATION REQUIRES WONDER: ________________________________________ “What missionaries will I pray for today?” ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ “WE HAVE not the remotest conception of what is done by our prayers, nor have we the right to try and examine and understand it; all we know is that Jesus Christ laid all stress on prayer. And greater works than these will he do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do.” ________________________________________ Chronological Reading- Thru the Bible in One Year: Today’s Scriptures: Mark 11; John 12. biblegateway/passage/?version=NKJV&search=mark+11,john+12 ________________________________________ Prayers That Avail Much: November 3 “Father, if there ever was a time for possessing a spirit of faith like the Shunammite woman, it is now! I want to be known as having a spirit like hers, totally undaunted by the severity of natural circumstances - in this case, the death of her only son. She was fearless. She was compassionate and respectful of the man of God, Elisha. She refused to accept the death of her son, but held to Your Word through the prophet. She demanded what was hers - the restoration of her son to life! And she got it! And she gave You praise! Help me to be like her in spirit, Lord Jesus. Amen.” 2 Kings 4: 8-37. Daily Confession: “All is well with me! I will have what God says is mine. The devil will no longer steal, kill and destroy in my life!” ________________________________________ “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much!”…James 5:16. ________________________________________ 2Timothy 2: 1-8; 2 Chronicles 7:14 To submit prayer requests: ‘E-Prayer’ (NHCC office: [email protected]) ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Quotes by: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) “It is not at all surprising that the disciples imagined that the law had been abrogated, when Jesus made promises like this. For these promises reversed all popular notions of right and wrong, and pronounced a blessing on all that was accounted worthless.” More to come……………. { dbonhoeffer.org/} ________________________________________ ________________________________________ Isaiah 40: 28: Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4: 8 -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ En Agape, Pastor Jim Menke [email protected] New Hope Christian Center 2240 Baty Road Lima, Ohio 45807 To be ADDED to the “1st VOICE” mailing list… please e-mail: [email protected] and type SUBSCRIBE in the Subject Line. You will be ADDED A.S.A.P. To be removed from this mailing list… please e-mail: [email protected] and type REMOVE in the Subject Line. You will be removed A.S.A.P. Pastors & Ministers, Pastor Bob Wardle is hosting a weekend of meetings with ‘David Ravenhill’, son of the late ‘Leonard Ravenhill’. Together, Bob and I would like to invite you to a breakfast with David Ravenhill, Author, Revivalist, & International Missionary, on Saturday, November 8th at 8:00 AM. We will be meeting at the Westgate Bowling Lanes Restaurant, 721 North Cable Road, Lima, Ohio. A breakfast buffet will be setup, which will include: French Toast, Bacon, Sausage, Eggs, Home Fries, Toast, Coffee, & Juice. Cost will be $6.99 per person +tip …… A R.S.V.P. would be appreciated. Either call, or call or text Pastor Bob Wardle @ 419-302-3995 Or Contact Pastor Bob on Face Book @ https://facebook/pbwardle?fref=ts..... Or text me @ 419-303-1300 or Message me on Face Book @ “Pastor Jim Menke” https://facebook/PastorJimMenke We need to inform Management @ Westgate Lanes (Entertainment Center) by Thursday, November 6th, so please, inform us if you are planning to be at this ‘one time’ opportunity in the Lima area, before days end on Wednesday, November 5th. You can also call: 419-339-3333 or 419-339-4673 and leave your name, church and intentions to be in attendance on our answering machine. En Agape, [email protected] Pastor of New Hope Christian Center 2240 Baty Road Lima, Ohio 45807 419-339-3333 (office) 419-339-4673 (office) 419-303-1300 (cell) Pastor Bob Wardle New Life Assembly 1003 East Kibby Lima, Ohio 45804 567-371-3566 (office) 419-302-3995 (cell)
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