Forsyth: in Christ's name

Saturday, July 8, 2023
Meditation:
    [Jesus:] “In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.”
    —John 16:23-24 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Ask for everything you can ask in Christ’s name, i.e. everything desirable by a man who is in Christ’s kingdom of God, by a man who lives for it at heart, everything in tune with the purpose and work of the kingdom in Christ. If you are in that kingdom, then pray freely for whatever you need or wish to keep you active and effective for it, from daily bread upwards and outwards.
    ... P. T. Forsyth (1848-1921), The Soul of Prayer [1916], Regent College Publishing, 2002, p. 76 (see the book)
    See also John 16:23-24; Matt. 6:6-8; 7:11; 9:37-38; 18:19-20; 21:21-22; Mark 11:22-25; Luke 11:13; John 14:12-14; 15:7; Col. 3:17; 1 Thess. 5:17
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people boldly approach Your throne of grace. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Schaeffer: the uses of doxology

Friday, July 7, 2023
Meditation:
    Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they sang: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!” Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
    —Revelation 5:11-13 (NIV)
Quotation:
    We are not only to sing the doxology, but to be the doxology.
    ... Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), No Little People, Downer Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1974, reprint, Crossway, 2003, p. 236 (see the book)
    See also Rev. 5:11-14; John 3:36; Rom. 15:8-11; Eph. 5:19-20; Phil. 2:9-11; Col. 3:16-17; 1 Tim. 1:17; Jas. 5:13
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, make of my life a song of praise to You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Phillips: truth and commitment

Thursday, July 6, 2023
    Feast of John Huss, Reformer, Martyr, 1415
    Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, &
    John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535
Meditation:
    We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
    —1 John 2:3 (NIV)
Quotation:
    There is no discovery of the truth of Christ’s teaching, no unanswerable inward endorsement of it, without committing oneself to his way of life.
    ... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), God Our Contemporary, New York: Macmillan, 1960, p. 116 (see the book)
    See also 1 John 2:3; Matt. 6:14-15; 7:24-27; 12:50; Luke 6:47-49; 11:28; John 13:17; 14:15; 15:10,14; Rom. 2:6-7; Gal. 6:7-8; Jas. 1:21-24; 1 John 3:24; 5:3-5
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your truth changes my life. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Donne: concentration in prayer

Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Meditation:
    When [Jesus] rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”
    —Luke 22:45-46 (NIV)
Quotation:
    I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God, and His Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and His Angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    ... John Donne (1573-1631), Works of John Donne, vol. III, London: John W. Parker, 1839, Sermon LXXX, p. 477-478 (see the book)
    See also Luke 22:45-46; Matt. 14:23; 24:42; 26:36-41; Mark 1:35; 14:37-38; Luke 21:36; Rev. 3:2-3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, return my wandering mind to conversation with You. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Stringfellow: repentance

Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Meditation:
    Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
    —Matthew 6:10 (KJV)
Quotation:
    The problem of America as a nation, in biblical perspective, remains this elementary issue of repentance. The United States is, as all nations are, called in the Word of God to repentance. That, in truth, is what the church calls for, whether knowingly or not, every time the church prays Thy Kingdom come.
    ... William Stringfellow (1928-1985), The Politics of Spirituality, Westminster Press, 1984, p. 62 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 6:10; Dan. 2:44; 7:13,27; Col. 1:13-14; Rev. 11:15; 20:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, Your people wait expectantly for Your will to prevail. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Tillotson: plain truth

Monday, July 3, 2023
    Feast of Thomas the Apostle
Meditation:
    And he said to man, ‘The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.’”
    —Job 28:28 (NIV)
Quotation:
    It seems to be very hard, and if that would do any good, might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things, which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.
    ... John Tillotson (1630-1694), Works of Dr. John Tillotson, v. I, London: J. F. Dove, for R. Priestley, 1820, Sermon I, p. 332 (see the book)
    See also Job 28:28; Ps. 19:1-6; Isa. 40:26; Jer. 10:10-13; John 1:9; Rom. 1:18-19; Col. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:3-4; Jas. 3:13; 1 John 4:6
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, may You overcome the resistance of _____ and _____ to Your truth. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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Murray: love of the brethren

Sunday, July 2, 2023
Meditation:
    If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
    —1 John 4:20 (NIV)
Quotation:
    God keep me from saying anything that would be unloving; God shut my mouth if I am not to speak in tender love. But what I am saying is a fact. How often there is found among Christians who are banded together in work, sharp criticism, sharp judgment, hasty opinion, unloving words, secret contempt of each other, secret condemnation of each other. Oh, just as a mother’s love covers her children and delights in them and has the tenderest compassion with their foibles or failures, so there ought to be in the heart of every believer a motherly love toward every brother and sister in Christ. Have you aimed at that? Have you sought it? Have you ever pleaded for it?
    ... Andrew Murray (1828-1917), Absolute Surrender, Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1897, p. 28 (see the book)
    See also 1 John 4:20; John 1:18; 13:34; Col. 3:12-13; 1 John 2:4; 3:17; 4:12
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, increase my love for Your people. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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