C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional
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"Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not."-Numbers 11:23
    
    God had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the creature instead of the Creator. But doth the Creator expect the creature to fulfil His promise for Him? No; He who makes the promise ever fulfils it by His own unaided omnipotence. If He speaks, it is done-done by Himself. His promises do not depend for their fulfillment upon the co-operation of the puny strength of man. We can at once perceive the mistake which Moses made. And yet how commonly we do the same! God has promised to supply our needs, and we look to the creature to do what God has promised to do; and then, because we perceive the creature to be weak and feeble, we indulge in unbelief. Why look we to that quarter at all? Will you look to the north pole to gather fruits ripened in the sun? Verily, you would act no more foolishly if ye did this than when you look to the weak for strength, and to the creature to do the Creator's work. Let us, then, put the question on the right footing. The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of the invisible God, who will most surely do as He hath said. If after clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with the creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes home mightily to us: "Has the Lord's hand waxed short?" May it happen, too, in His mercy, that with the question there may flash upon our souls that blessed declaration, "Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not."
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Monday, September 6, 2010

HSC # 159 ~ "Labor Day" Edition

Welcome to the September 6, 2010 Edition
of the homesteading carnival


Crissa presents Tips and Tricks for Back to School Shopping posted at Real Moms Real Views.

Amy posted 8 Back-toSchool Breakfast ideas & Recipes at Simple Bites.

Bugguysmama presents 5 ways to Keep your child's teeth healthy at Marvelous Mom Reviews.

Check out Jami's 10 favorite sewing tutorials posted at Intentionally Living.

Sheryl Owen presents The ABC’s of Home Ownership, 10 Tips for Organizing Your Garage, and 10 Tips for Finding a New Church Home, posted at Change of Address.

Find some tips on Downsizing your Home with Self Storage posted at Small Notebook.

It's that time of the year again check out the Tips for Shopping the Farmer's Market posted at Gooseberry Farm.

Try your hand at making an Apple Picking tote just in time for apple picking season. This tutorial is posted at The Purl Bee.

The Family presents Putting Up Some Corn - How to pressure can corn posted at Once Upon a Family, saying, "When the freezer is full canning is a good way to keep the garden bounty."

Carol J. Alexander presents Canning Soup posted at Everything Home...with Carol.

Are you in a pickle for a recipe? Have more cucumbers than you know what to do with? Try one of these two easy recipes. Abi presents Lazy Man's Pickles at Scraps of Life and Aunt Ceil's Refrigerator Pickles presented at Gooseberry Patch.

Thomas W. presents a very unique and cheap way to build a scarecrow posted at Happy Farming.

Bobbie Whitehead presents Planting Apple Tree Orchard posted at Farmers Markets News.

Vee Williams presents Day 55 Sun Passion of the Ice Cream posted at Vee's "getting-healthy and diet" ramble-blog, saying, "Not just a "getting health" blog (from 299 lbs to 178 and I'm more than halfway there!) ... we live on a small 2-acre mini-farm, milking our goat for cheese, collecting eggs from our hens, raising vegetables that taste a million times better than anything at a grocery store. Come join us on not only my diet-adventures, but also homesteading and homeschooling lives!"

Fred Lee presents 5 Ways To Get Your Children Involved In Helping Others posted at Parenting Squad.

CPF presents How To Use Vinegar as a Disinfectant posted at Natural Health Ezine, saying, "You don't have to use harmful chemicals to get your home clean. See how you can use vinegar to disinfect your home."

Pamela Jorrick presents Well, well, well...water troubles. posted at Blah, Blah, Blog.



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  1. Carol J. AlexanderSeptember 7, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    Thanks for hosting, Apple. Really enjoyed all the articles. Have a great week,
    Carol

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