1 John 4:10 NLT This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent
his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Acts 16: 18 This went on day after day until Paul got so exasperated that he turned and said to the demon within her, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And instantly it left her.
Joel 2:28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.”
Matthew 11:29 (AMP) "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls."
I think that you will like this from Spurgeon's Daily Devotional, it is old fashioned but good, so read and enjoy.
Acts 16: 18 This went on day after day until Paul got so exasperated that he turned and said to the demon within her, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And instantly it left her.
Joel 2:28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.”
Matthew 11:29 (AMP) "Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls."
I think that you will like this from Spurgeon's Daily Devotional, it is old fashioned but good, so read and enjoy.
"And God divided the light from the darkness."
Genesis 1:4
A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he
was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered,
and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh
chapter of Romans: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is
present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see
another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me
into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members." How is this state of
things occasioned? "The Lord divided the light from the darkness." Darkness, by
itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a
conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never
cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division
within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division
without. So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to
separate himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly
religion of outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will
now satisfy him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous
amusements, and seeks the company of the saints, for "We know we have passed
from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The light gathers to
itself, and the darkness to itself. What God has divided, let us never try to
unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come
out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people. He was holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as He was, so we are to be nonconformists
to the world, dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from the rest of
mankind by our likeness to our Master. Genesis 1:4
"And the evening and the morning were the first
day."
Genesis 1:5
The evening was "darkness" and the morning was "light," and yet the two
together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is
somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In
every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named a
sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he
possesses some degree of holiness. This will be a most comforting thought to
those who are mourning their infirmities, and who ask, "Can I be a child of God
while there is so much darkness in me?" Yes; for you, like the day, take not
your name from the evening, but from the morning; and you are spoken of in the
word of God as if you were even now perfectly holy as you will be soon. You are
called the child of light, though there is darkness in you still. You are named
after what is the predominating quality in the sight of God, which will one day
be the only principle remaining. Observe that the evening comes first.
Naturally we are darkness first in order of time, and the gloom is often first
in our mournful apprehension, driving us to cry out in deep humiliation, "God be
merciful to me, a sinner." The place of the morning is second, it dawns when
grace overcomes nature. It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, "That which is
last, lasts for ever." That which is first, yields in due season to the last;
but nothing comes after the last. So that though you are naturally darkness,
when once you become light in the Lord, there is no evening to follow; "thy sun
shall no more go down." The first day in this life is an evening and a morning;
but the second day, when we shall be with God, for ever, shall be a day with no
evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal noon. Genesis 1:5

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