REJOICE IN THE LORD ALWAY!

"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice." (Phil. 4:4)

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Sing a little song of trust,

O my heart!

Sing it just because you must,

As leaves start;

As flowers push their way through dust;

Sing, my heart, because you must.

Wait not for an eager throng - -

Bird on bird;

‘Tis the solitary song

That is heard.

Every voice at dawn will start,

Be a nightingale, my heart!

Sing across the winter snow,

Pierce the cloud;

Sing when mists are dropping low - -

Clear and loud;

But sing sweetest in the dark;

He who slumbers not will hark.

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“An’ when He hears yo’ sing, He bends down wid a smile on His kin’ face an’ listens mighty keerful, an’ He says, ‘Sing on, chile, I hears, an’ I’s comin’ down to deliber yo’: I’ll tote dat load fer yo’; jest lean hawd on Me and de road will get smoother bime by.’” 

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(Note from CJ: Hang in there Christian! The battle is only going to get harder, as the night weares on, and the enemy rages. HOWEVER, were on the winnin’ side! Praise the Lord! And when you think the battle is getting to hard, the road to rough, and you can feel the breath of the enemy on your neck…… SING! Sing a song for the One who saved you, and IS COMING for you. Praise the Lord!  He is near, and He is able to deliver you. Praise His Name! There isn’t anything the enemy hates more than when he attacks, hoping to wound his prey, and when he comes close to hear the cries of the wounded, hears only the sweet song of the saints…. “He is able to deliver thee. He is able to deliver thee. Though by sin oppressed, go to Him for rest, our God is able to deliver thee.”)

"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (Gen.18:14)

Here is God's loving challenge to you and to me today. He wants us to think of the deepest, highest, worthiest desire and longing of our hearts, something which perhaps was our desire for ourselves or for someone dear to us, yet which has been so long unfulfilled that we have looked upon it as only a lost desire, that which might have been but now cannot be, and so have given up hope of seeing it fulfilled in this life.


That thing, if it is in line with what we know to be His expressed will (as a son to Abraham and Sarah was), God intends to do for us, even if we know that it is of such utter impossibility that we only laugh at the absurdity of anyone's supposing it could ever now come to pass. That thing God intends to do for us, if we will let HIm.


"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" Not when we believe in Him enough to go forward and do His will, and let HIm do the impossible for us. Even Abraham and Sarah could have blocked God's plan if they had continued to disbelieve.


The only thing too hard for Jehovah is deliberate, continued disbelief in His love and power, and our final rejection of His plan for us. Nothing is too hard for Jehovah to do for them that trust Him.


(copied - For The Morning Watch)