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I believe these devotions and the sermons to be spiritual dynamite. I want to reach as many as I can, if you have any friends, who wish to receive them. Please ask them to subscribe by emailing me at keitherichobkirk@hotmail.com
2 TIMOTHY 1
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayer's night and day;
4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
A FATHER SPEAKS TO HIS SPIRITUAL SON
Paul was a spiritual father to the many churches he founded and encouraged, but his spiritual son, was Timothy. The two epistles sent to Timothy are manuals from an old pastor to the one he is handing his ministry to. It is Paul last will and testament; it is Paul's parting gift to his spiritual son.
We see some things about Paul and about Timothy
Paul prayed constantly for Timothy, he remembered him in his prayers. Do we have someone close to us, who we have helped in their faith? We should constantly be remembering them before the throne of grace. Verse 3
Paul's deep desire was to see Timothy. (Verse 4) Timothy was crying because he knows what was going to happen to Paul, Paul just had to see his protégé one last time. This shows us the deep love between believers. We don't know how far Timothy was from Rome, but he did everything to go to Paul. This is the depth of Christian love.
Timothy's faith was real. He was instructed in the scriptures from his earliest days. See chapter 3. Paul gives thanks for the faith that dwells in Timothy. You know every other born again believer has this glory living in them. Do you give thanks for that?
3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayer's night and day;
4 Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;
5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
A FATHER SPEAKS TO HIS SPIRITUAL SON
Paul was a spiritual father to the many churches he founded and encouraged, but his spiritual son, was Timothy. The two epistles sent to Timothy are manuals from an old pastor to the one he is handing his ministry to. It is Paul last will and testament; it is Paul's parting gift to his spiritual son.
We see some things about Paul and about Timothy
Paul prayed constantly for Timothy, he remembered him in his prayers. Do we have someone close to us, who we have helped in their faith? We should constantly be remembering them before the throne of grace. Verse 3
Paul's deep desire was to see Timothy. (Verse 4) Timothy was crying because he knows what was going to happen to Paul, Paul just had to see his protégé one last time. This shows us the deep love between believers. We don't know how far Timothy was from Rome, but he did everything to go to Paul. This is the depth of Christian love.
Timothy's faith was real. He was instructed in the scriptures from his earliest days. See chapter 3. Paul gives thanks for the faith that dwells in Timothy. You know every other born again believer has this glory living in them. Do you give thanks for that?
What a wonderful encouragement to Mothers and grandmothers Timothy is.. amen.
Paul looked finally back to the past, he had laid hands on Timothy and now he was asking him to stir up that gift. Virtually to use it. Timothy was a slightly shy character who had to be pushed a little and Paul encouraged Timothy to use his gift.
How are you encouraging your fellow believers to stir up the gift that God has given them?
Maybe you are a Paul, an old minister, if you are. Have you a Timothy, who you are training to serve God? Look for the Timothys in your church and train them up.
Paul looked finally back to the past, he had laid hands on Timothy and now he was asking him to stir up that gift. Virtually to use it. Timothy was a slightly shy character who had to be pushed a little and Paul encouraged Timothy to use his gift.
How are you encouraging your fellow believers to stir up the gift that God has given them?
Maybe you are a Paul, an old minister, if you are. Have you a Timothy, who you are training to serve God? Look for the Timothys in your church and train them up.
Maybe you are a Timothy, seek out an older Christian, one you can look up to.
Pray for each other, encourage each other and stir up God's gift in each other.
God bless you
Keith
PRAYER FOCUS
KHMER IN CAMBODIA
Khmer in Cambodia
NORTHERN IRELAND
Prayercast | Northern Ireland
SOAK IN SCRIPTURE
Jesus Shows How To Pray
Paul Gordon | The Gospels
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He Welcomes Them To Hell
Thomas Watson | Puritan Devotional
sermonaudio.com/sermon/515081118526
GUEST DEVOTION
Pray for each other, encourage each other and stir up God's gift in each other.
God bless you
Keith
PRAYER FOCUS
KHMER IN CAMBODIA
Khmer in Cambodia
NORTHERN IRELAND
Prayercast | Northern Ireland
SOAK IN SCRIPTURE
Jesus Shows How To Pray
Paul Gordon | The Gospels
sermonaudio.com/sermon/102522221287821
He Welcomes Them To Hell
Thomas Watson | Puritan Devotional
sermonaudio.com/sermon/515081118526
GUEST DEVOTION
There never was a fountain like this!
(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899) LISTEN to audio! Download audio
"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity!" Zechariah 13:1
"The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin!" 1 John 1:7
There is another river, the streams of which make glad the City of God. It is a river whose waters are crimson red, rather than crystal clear. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin—His life-blood, shed for our redemption on the shameful tree!
So many have proved the potency of this blessed fountain—a great multitude which no man can number! From the East and the West, the North and the South; from the early dawn of Christ, and the modern home—they have pressed to its brink, and they are pressing still. Whoever is willing may stoop down and drink and live!
Such continuous and permanent efficacy resides in this wondrous fountain. It is not like the Pool of Bethesda, endowed with a strange and vitalizing virtue only at intervals. The dear dying Lamb never loses His power to save. The Cross is at every moment, the instrument of pardon. The blood cleanses and retains its capacity of cleansing perennially, age after age.
And so universally and omnipotently successful these blood-red waters are. From all my sin they will purge me:
my secret sins, and my presumptuous sins,
my sins of youth, and my sins of old age,
my sins against others, and my sins against myself,
my sins when I was a stranger to God, and my darker and more hateful sins since I came home to Him.
There never was a fountain like this! Exploration has not discovered its like, nor has imagination ever conceived it! It is peerless, matchless, unique. Surely I have washed and am daily washing in it, that I may be clean!
There is a fountain filled with blood
drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains!
The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day;
and there may I, though vile as he
wash all my sins away!
Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood
shall never lose its power;
till all the ransomed church of God
be saved, to sin no more!
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Your flowing wounds supply;
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die!
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing Your power to save!
(William Cowper, 1731-1800)
(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899) LISTEN to audio! Download audio
"On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity!" Zechariah 13:1
"The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin!" 1 John 1:7
There is another river, the streams of which make glad the City of God. It is a river whose waters are crimson red, rather than crystal clear. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin—His life-blood, shed for our redemption on the shameful tree!
So many have proved the potency of this blessed fountain—a great multitude which no man can number! From the East and the West, the North and the South; from the early dawn of Christ, and the modern home—they have pressed to its brink, and they are pressing still. Whoever is willing may stoop down and drink and live!
Such continuous and permanent efficacy resides in this wondrous fountain. It is not like the Pool of Bethesda, endowed with a strange and vitalizing virtue only at intervals. The dear dying Lamb never loses His power to save. The Cross is at every moment, the instrument of pardon. The blood cleanses and retains its capacity of cleansing perennially, age after age.
And so universally and omnipotently successful these blood-red waters are. From all my sin they will purge me:
my secret sins, and my presumptuous sins,
my sins of youth, and my sins of old age,
my sins against others, and my sins against myself,
my sins when I was a stranger to God, and my darker and more hateful sins since I came home to Him.
There never was a fountain like this! Exploration has not discovered its like, nor has imagination ever conceived it! It is peerless, matchless, unique. Surely I have washed and am daily washing in it, that I may be clean!
There is a fountain filled with blood
drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
and sinners plunged beneath that flood
lose all their guilty stains!
The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day;
and there may I, though vile as he
wash all my sins away!
Dear dying Lamb, Your precious blood
shall never lose its power;
till all the ransomed church of God
be saved, to sin no more!
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Your flowing wounds supply;
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die!
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
lies silent in the grave,
Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing Your power to save!
(William Cowper, 1731-1800)
