C.H. Spurgeon's Morning Devotional
Thursday May 22, 2025

"He led them forth by the right way."-Psalm 107:7
    
    Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire "Why is it thus with me?" I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide Thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; to-day my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah's top, and view the landscape o'er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; to-day, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God's plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God's method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the testing and strengthening of your faith-they are waves that wash you further upon the rock-they are winds which waft your ship the more swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David's words, so it might be said of you, "so He bringeth them to their desired haven." By honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are out of God's plan; they are necessary parts of it. "We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom." Learn, then, even to "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations."
    
    "O let my trembling soul be still,
    And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!
    I cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
    Yet all is well since ruled by Thee."
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Monday, April 15, 2013

This is Our Time with giveaway

Release Date April 16- tomorrow with giveaway

This movie couldn't come out at a better time...only a month from graduation day for many, college and High School seniors.  Though the movie is presented around college graduation I think High School seniors could benefit from the message just the same.  I watched the movie with my senior daughter and I'm passing it on to my college daughter who will graduate in 2014.  The message is wonderful and inspiring:  You are where God wants you at this present time.  Graduates need encouragement as they seek to do what they feel God is calling them to do or as they sort out what direction they feel the Lord leading.  It's a hard decision and some have an easier time finding their place in life that others as is presented in this movie.  Excellent movie highly recommend High Schoolers and college bound students alike to watch the movie.  Very family approved, however, younger ones may not be as thrilled with the message as it is geared toward Doing what God calls you to do upon graduation. 



About This Is Our Time
The movie tells the interwoven stories of Luke (T.J. Dalrymple) and Alé (Erin Bethea), who marry right after school and move to India to serve as missionaries for Embrace A Village, a ministry that cares for those afflicted with leprosy and their families; aspiring financier Catherine (Kate Cobb), who joins a prestigious financial institution determined to make an impact on corporate America; Ryder (Matthew Florida), who lands an impressive job in social media and can’t wait to use the powerful medium for a greater good; and Ethan (Shawn-Caulin Young,) seemingly the odd man out, who struggles to find his God-given-purpose and feels sidelined by God.
“What they all come to learn is that it never really was their time,” Arnold said. “It always was, always is, God’s time.”


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7 comments:

  1. Love the line "it was never their time but always God's time!" So true and something so important to remember.

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  2. This looks like a good movie to watch with my grandchildren. Looks very inspirational!
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  3. christian family based

    GrandMaC

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  4. My husband and I love inspirational movies and this looks like it would be a really good one! Thanks for the chance!

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  5. A friend of mine was telling me the other day about a movie that was on her television. It turned out it was on Cinemax. She didn't even know they subscribed. She thought maybe it was a free weekend. She was a bit amazed. We need more inspirational, family movies.

    I was sadden the other day when my son told me that he has trouble believing in God. His scientific brain gets in the way. I understand some of that, being very logically thinking. I love my Lord and Savior and thought my son is saved.

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