http://dailyfaithing.org Another Nifty Geeklog Site PastorScott@dailyfaithing.org PastorScott@dailyfaithing.org Copyright 2008 Life Through Daily Faithing Ministries GeekLog Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:57:55 -0700 en-gb http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071116064032279 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071116064032279 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:40:32 -0800 Prayer Page Please join us in prayer for my sis in laws best friend Nikki in NJ. Nikki is fighting cancer again for about the 5th or 6th time and He has cleansed her each time. She is tired and worn out and just don't want to fight this time around. The Doctors had to remove all her lymph nods and she has to under go more treatments. Father we pray for her to find courage and strength to fight in your name. She has a ten yr. old daughter that needs her Mom. Father, we praise your name and ask for Your mighty hand to be laid upon her body and soul with healing and comfort according to your will. I am going to NJ next Tuesday and the Good Lord willing He will allow me to go to pray with her. Father, I also pray thee be with me that I might pray as I ought with her in the boldness of my sweet Lord and Savior be with us. In Jesus name we pray thee. Amen. - Pastor Scott http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023210021797 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023210021797 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:00:21 -0700 Prayer Page Name: Dear Rev.Karl, Date: October 23, 2007 Dear Rev.Karl, Please pray for our 5 days Great Commission Training. By His grace it will start from 5-11-07 to 9-11-07. More than 40 church planters will be get training. Please pray for the teachers may God use them richly. Please pray for the participants after the training may God use them to plant new churches. Thanks for your all prayers. Please let us know about your family and all ministry work. God bless you, your family and ministry work! Your brother, Ps Sadiq. http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023123958462 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023123958462 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:39:58 -0700 Prayer Page Name: Sadiq Sarfraz Date: October 19, 2007 Location: Pakistan Dear Rev Karl & Sister Jeanne, Greetings! I am thankful to you that you always prayer for us. Please pray for my daughter Salomi’s wedding. Her wedding will be on 9th November 2007. As you know that we are living in Indian culture therefore we have to give dowry on the time our daughters marriage. Therefore I humbly request you please pray for this matter. God provide all needs of my daughter’s wedding. Please also pray, God bless this wedding. God bless you and your family. Your brother, Ps Sadiq Sarfraz. http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023122549792 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071023122549792 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:25:49 -0700 Prayer Page Name: Rev. Scott W. Roberts Location: Scranton, Pa Date: Oct. 23, 2007 Dear Fellow Daily Faithing Prayer Warriors. Please join us in prayer for Vita Flowers. Vita is undergoing psychological testing today which is a prerequisite to an operation that involves inserting a pain management device into her spinal cord. If the doctor’s findings come back positive she will be able to get this operation. Once this device is inserted she will no longer have to take the absurd amount of oral medications that she currently has to take every few hours around the clock and extensive research and testing results have proved this procedure to be most effective. Father we pray for your complete intercession in this matter. We pray thee to guide all the members of this medical team as they each perform their specific duties as they strive to relieve Vita of this chronic condition that render her bed ridden more days then not. We thank you and praise you continually rejoicing in your will being done. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. In His Service; Daily Faithing Prayer Warriors http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022062823874 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022062823874 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:28:23 -0700 Pastor Scott Featured Thought for today. WHO IS JESUS? WHO IS JESUS? In chemistry, He turned water to wine. In biology, He was born without the normal conception. In physics, He disproved the law of gravity when He ascended into heaven. In economics, He disproved the law of diminishing return by feeding 5000 men with two fishes & 5 loaves of bread. In medicine, He cured the sick and the blind without administering a single dose of drugs. In history, He is the beginning and the end. In government, He said that he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace. In religion, He said no one comes to the Father except through him. So. Who is He? He is Jesus! Join me and let's celebrate him; He is worthy. The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hand that will send this message to everybody shall not labor in vain, and the mouth saying Amen to this prayer shall smile forever. Remain in God and seek his face always. Amen! In God I've found everything! The Greatest Man in History, Jesus had no servants, yet they called Him Master. Had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher. Had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer. He had no army, yet kings feared Him. He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world. He committed no crime, yet they crucified Him. He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today. I feel honored to serve such a Leader who loves us! If you believe in God and in Jesus Christ His Son, spread the word. Jesus said... "If you deny me before man, I will deny you before my Father in Heaven." Anon. From an E-mail. http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022062046148 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022062046148 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:20:46 -0700 Daily Devotionals **************************************************************************** To Know His Goodness The Lord is good unto them that wait for him. (Lamentations 3:25) **************************************************************************** To Know His Goodness The Lord is good unto them that wait for him. (Lamentations 3:25) There is none good but God. His goodness is in the heavens. "Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee". "0 taste and see that the Lord is good". And here is now the true way of entering into and rejoicing in this goodness of God—waiting upon Him. The Lord is good—even His children often do not know it, for they do not wait in quietness for Him to reveal it. But, to those who persevere in waiting, whose souls do wait, it will come true. One might think that it is just those who have to wait who might doubt it. But, this is only when they do not wait, but grow impatient. The truly waiting ones will all say, "The Lord is good unto them that wait for him." If you want to fully know the goodness of God, give yourself more than ever to a life of waiting on Him. At our first entrance into the school of waiting upon God, the heart is mainly set on the blessings which we wait for. God graciously uses our needs and desires for help to educate us for something higher than we were thinking of. We were seeking gifts; He, the Giver, longs to give Himself and to satisfy the soul with His goodness. It is just for this reason that He often withholds the gifts, and that the time of waiting is made so long. He is constantly seeking to win the heart of His child for Himself. He wishes that we would not only say, when He bestows the gift, "How good is God!" but that long before it comes, and even if it never comes, we should all the time be experiencing: It is good that a man should quietly wait. "The Lord is good unto them that wait for him." What a blessed life the life of waiting then becomes, the continual worship of faith, adoring, and trusting His goodness. As the soul learns its secret, every act or exercise of waiting becomes just a quiet entering into the goodness of God, to let it do its blessed work and satisfy our every need. And, every experience of God's goodness gives new attractiveness to the work of waiting. Instead of only taking refuge in time of need, there comes a great longing to wait continually and all day. And, however duties and engagements occupy the time and the mind, the soul gets more familiar with the secret art of always waiting. Waiting becomes the habit and disposition, the very second nature and breath of the soul. Dear Christian, begin to see that waiting is not one among a number of Christian virtues, to be thought of from time to time. But, it expresses that disposition that lies at the very root of the Christian life. It gives a higher value and a new power to our prayers and worship, to our faith and surrender, because it links us, in unalterable dependence, to God Himself. And, it gives us the unbroken enjoyment of the goodness of God: "The Lord is good unto them that wait for him." Let me stress once again that you must take time and trouble to cultivate this much needed element of the Christian life. We get too much secondhand religion from the teaching of men. That teaching has great value, even as the preaching of John the Baptist sent his disciples away from himself to the living Christ, if it leads us to God Himself. What our faith needs is—more of God. Many of us are too occupied with our work. As with Martha, the very service we want to render the Master separates us from Him. It is neither pleasing to Him nor profitable to ourselves. The more work, the more need of waiting upon God. The doing of God's will would then be, instead of exhausting, our meat and drink, our nourishment and refreshment and strength. "The Lord is good unto them that wait for him." How good is known only by those who prove it in waiting on Him. How good none can fully tell but those who have proved Him to the utmost. "My soul, wait thou only upon God!" —Waiting on God http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022061710824 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071022061710824 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:17:10 -0700 Daily Devotionals Monday, October 22, 2007 Morning Verse "I will love them freely." Hosea 14:4 Evening Verse "He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you." John 16:15 October 22 Morning Verse "I will love them freely." Hosea 14:4 This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered to us in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The sense hinges upon the word "freely." This is the glorious, the suitable, the divine way by which love streams from heaven to earth, a spontaneous love flowing forth to those who neither deserved it, purchased it, nor sought after it. It is, indeed, the only way in which God can love such as we are. The text is a death-blow to all sorts of fitness: "I will love them freely." Now, if there were any fitness necessary in us, then He would not love us freely, at least, this would be a mitigation and a drawback to the freeness of it. But it stands, "I will love you freely."We complain, "Lord, my heart is so hard." "I will love you freely." "But I do not feel my need of Christ as I could wish." "I will not love you because you feel your need; I will love you freely." "But I do not feel that softening of spirit which I could desire." Remember, the softening of spirit is not a condition, for there are no conditions; the covenant of grace has no conditionality whatever; so that we without any fitness may venture upon the promise of God which was made to us in Christ Jesus, when He said, "He that believeth on Him is not condemned." It is blessed to know that the grace of God is free to us at all times, without preparation, without fitness, without money, and without price! "I will love them freely." These words invite backsliders to return: indeed, the text was specially written for such--"I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely." Backslider! surely the generosity of the promise will at once break your heart, and you will return, and seek your injured Father's face. Evening Verse "He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you." John 16:15 There are times when all the promises and a doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to the water- brook. When a soldier is wounded in battle it is of little use for him to know that there are those at the hospital who can bind up his wounds, and medicines there to ease all the pains which he now suffers: what he needs is to be carried thither, and to have the remedies applied. It is thus with our souls, and to meet this need there is one, even the Spirit of truth, who takes of the things of Jesus, and applies them to us. Think not that Christ hath placed His joys on heavenly shelves that we may climb up to them for ourselves, but He draws near, and sheds His peace abroad in our hearts. O Christian, if thou art to-night labouring under deep distresses, thy Father does not give thee promises and then leave thee to draw them up from the Word like buckets from a well, but the promises He has written in the Word He will write anew on your heart. He will manifest His love to you, and by His blessed Spirit, dispel your cares and troubles. Be it known unto thee, O mourner, that it is God's prerogative to wipe every tear from the eye of His people. The good Samaritan did not say, "Here is the wine, and here is the oil for you"; he actually poured in the oil and the wine. So Jesus not only gives you the sweet wine of the promise, but holds the golden chalice to your lips, and pours the life-blood into your mouth. The poor, sick, way-worn pilgrim is not merely strengthened to walk, but he is borne on eagles' wings. Glorious gospel! which provides everything for the helpless, which draws nigh to us when we cannot reach after it--brings us grace before we seek for grace! Here is as much glory in the giving as in the gift. Happy people who have the Holy Ghost to bring Jesus to them. —Morning and Evening http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071019110403859 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071019110403859 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:04:03 -0700 Daily Devotionals For Unlooked—For Things (Isaiah 64:4) For Unlooked—For Things For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. (Isaiah 64:4) The American Standard Version has the thought: "Neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him." In the King James Version, the thought is that no eye has seen the thing that God has prepared. In the American Standard Version, no eye has seen a God, besides our God, who works for him who waits for Him. To both, the two thoughts are common: that our place is to wait upon God, and that what the human heart cannot conceive will be revealed to us. The difference is the following: in the American Standard Version, it is the God who works; in the King James Version, the thing He is to work. In 1 Corinthians 2:9, "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him," the reference is in regard to the things that the Holy Spirit is to reveal, as in the King James Version, and in this chapter we will keep to that. The previous verses in Isaiah, especially Isaiah 63:15, refer to the low state of God's people. The prayer has been poured out, "Look down from heaven". "Why hast thou... hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake". And 64:1-2, still more urgent, "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down... as when the melting fire burneth... to make thy name known to thine adversaries!" Then follows the plea from the past, "When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence". "For"—this is now the faith that has been awakened by the thought of things we looked not for, He is still the same God—"neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." God alone knows what He can do for His waiting people. As Paul expounds and applies it: "The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:11). "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit" (v. 10). The need of God's people, and the call for God's intervention, is as urgent in our days as it was in the time of Isaiah. There is now, as there was then, as there has been at all times, a few who seek after God with their whole hearts. But, if we look at Christendom as a whole, at the state of the church of Christ, there is infinite cause for beseeching God to rend the heavens and come down. Nothing but a special interposition of almighty power will avail. I fear we do not have a proper conception of what the so-called Christian world is in the sight of God. Unless God comes down "as when the melting fire burneth... to make [His] name known to [His] adversaries" (Isaiah 64:2), our labors are comparatively fruitless. Look at the ministry: how much it is in the wisdom of man and of literary culture; how little in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. Think of the unity of the body: how little there is of the manifestation of the power of a heavenly love binding God's children into one. Think of holiness—the holiness of Christlike humility and crucifixion to the world. How little the world sees that they have men among them who live in Christ in heaven, in whom Christ and heaven live. What is to be done? There is only one thing. We must wait upon God. And what for? We must cry, with a cry that never rests, "Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens... [and] come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence". We must desire and believe, we must ask and expect, that God will do unlooked-for things. We must set our faith on a God of whom men do not know what He has prepared for them who wait for Him. The wonder-doing God, who can surpass all our expectations, must be the God of our confidence. Yes, let God's people enlarge their hearts to wait on a God able to do exceeding abundantly above what we can ask or think. Let us band ourselves together as His elect who cry day and night to Him for things men have not seen. He is able to arise and to make His people a name and a praise in the earth. "The Lord will wait, that he may be gracious unto you... blessed are all they that wait for Him". "My soul, wait thou only upon God!" —Waiting on God http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=2007101911011321 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=2007101911011321 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:01:13 -0700 Daily Devotionals Friday, October 19, 2007 Morning Verse "Babes in Christ." 1Corinthians 3:1 Evening Verse "God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night." Job 35:10 October 19 Morning Verse "Babes in Christ." 1Corinthians 3:1 Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in Him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax He will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but He will never break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." yet, if the root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of my salvation. Evening Verse "God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night." Job 35:10 Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow--the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring. It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is skilful who sings when there is not a ray of light to read by--who sings from his heart. No man can make a song in the night of himself; he may attempt it, but he will find that a song in the night must be divinely inspired. Let all things go well, I can weave songs, fashioning them wherever I go out of the flowers that grow upon my path; but put me in a desert, where no green thing grows, and wherewith shall I frame a hymn of praise to God? How shall a mortal man make a crown for the Lord where no jewels are? Let but this voice be clear, and this body full of health, and I can sing God's praise: silence my tongue, lay me upon the bed of languishing, and how shall I then chant God's high praises, unless He Himself give me the song? No, it is not in man's power to sing when all is adverse, unless an altar-coal shall touch his lip. It was a divine song, which Habakkuk sang, when in the night he said, "Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Then, since our Maker gives songs in the night, let us wait upon Him for the music. O Thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune Thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving. —Morning and Evening http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071018190426978 http://dailyfaithing.org/article.php?story=20071018190426978 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:04:26 -0700 Pastor Scott This is a MUST read for all us! by Jay Leno Subject: reminder to be happy with our country Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see.... "The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true, given the source, right? The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed, and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence, 2/3's of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What are we so unhappy about?'' Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year? Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy. Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here. I know, I know. What about the President who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The Commander-In Chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it...are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day. Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig. So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about "how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way"...Insane! Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative. "With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" Jay Leno 2007