I find it no small happening to see what God has been doing this week. The ability to see with eyes of faith, is a gift from God alone. The prayers and encouragement of His saints for one another is mighty. I testify! The fellowship with God is mighty and beautiful and glorious. Abiding in Him, and seeing His glories – His provision.
Experiencing peace and strength through the pain and trials is a testimony to God Himself in His power perfect in weakness in a believer who LOOKS to Him with hope.
Sunday was a very rich and blessed day in the fellowship with the saints and under the preaching of God’s Word. Traveling home with my family, we soon stopped and found ourselves in difficult situation. But God! Right there in the midst of this, God was in our midst. We joined with a dear elderly widow, saint in Christ and prayed. Sweet conversations and preparations made for more of what God has in mind. As we parted, this lovely woman, stopped my son. She had seen him perusing a set of Spurgeon Sermons high upon a shelf in an old dusty room. She said, “please take these. I want you to have them”. His eyes lit up. Talk about a beautiful gift. The timing so pertinent after leaving church listening to wonderful sermons by several men and my son carrying his Armor of God bible from childhood in tow with his giant sized King James Version study bible. He thanked her graciously, and we went on our way.
The Lord, Oh the Lord! Magnificent He is! Monday morning as I awoke before my sons, and stumbled through the quiet darkness of our home, I was drawn to look inside our storage closet to find some writing paper. God took my eyes to LOOK and see these raggedy notebooks. Like parchments of gold, from old. Our paper, pencil, bible based simplistic education from years ago. There is another large box in the garage attic stuffed full of these precious gems.
I began to view these powerful compilations of teaching after teaching God put on my heart day after day after day for years of teaching my sons. I desperately wanted to bring as many truths to them in simplistic ways they could understand. I decided this day, we would review these teachings. I also began typing these teachings, so that I may complile them into one large (cover included) bound book that I will give as a keepsake to each of them. Perhaps they will use, review, and also share with others now or into the future.
What a wonderful start to our week! Combination of Spurgeon Sermons to dive into to add to their current large notebooks of teachings we continue to do, along with reviewing their old teachings over the years.
I would like to share our Spurgeon teaching this week along with this gem from their notebook teaching from 2020. God took my eyes DIRECTLY to this very old “parchment” teaching this very day, in my very hour of need and prayer time, to encourage me immensely! The Lord will calm our storms within, filling us with peace and order as we find joy and fellowship with Him. There is no one like our God. I praise Him!
CHARLES SPURGEON – Sermon I – Sovereignty & Salvation – January 1856
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else” – Isaiah 45:22
On January 6, 1850, a fifteen year old young man, desperately seeking deliverance from his sin stricken wicked, confused, flailing heart. He walked himself out of a snowstorm and into a church for relief and warmth. It was this day, an unlikely man filling in for the regular minister, who could not make it through the storm, preached Isaiah 45:22. It was this day, Charles Spurgeon “Looked” to God and was saved! At the beginning of a New Year in January 1856 he shared this testimony and preached on this very Word:
-This year look to Christ, dear Christian!
In all thy troubles, through all this year-look to God and be saved!
In all trials and afflictions, look to Christ and find deliverance!
This year, remember to put thine eyes heavenward along with thine heart!
He that looks to Christ walks safely.
Keep thine eyes up all year long!
He is God and beside Him there is no other. He is a Christian’s daily need and daily deliverance-
SELLARS SCHOOLING on The Rock Teaching – 2020
Meditate on God – Joy in the Fellowship of God – Psalms 63
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall by the sword”
David rose early in the morning and immediately thought about God. He was eager to be with God all day long. He was in a situation that was extremely difficult.
David knew seeking God was the best action he could perform. He was active in his faith.
Notice the verbs that showed David’s actions.
1) In verse 2 David “LOOKS”. He took his eyes off his problems and LOOKED to SEE God’s power and glory!
2) In verse 3 David PRAISES God. Not while he was in a place of feeling wonderful.
Not while he was in a lovely place, but while he was in a desert place, alone,
and with enemies against him. He praises God because he knows God is loving, kind, and powerful.
3) In verse 4 David “LIFTS” up his hands toward the sanctuary where God sits on His throne in total control.
God is Sovereign (Supreme control), God is our Salvation – deliverance.
David is still in the wilderness and in verse 5 he says his soul is satisfied.
The situation hasn’t changed, but because he SOUGHT, LOOKED to the Lord, his heart was filled with the goodness of GOD! This was all David needed.
4) David continues to “CLING” to God, believing God was holding on to him-helping, protecting,
and in verse 9, proclaiming God’s deliverance! Victory over the enemy.
Praise be to God!
I pray this might be a blessing to you today as you “LOOK” with me,
to God as our Salvation and deliverance now and forever.
May God bless you abundantly in the grace of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In His love,
Leah (sinner saved by the blood of the cross – Looking to God and clinging to Him)
