My Lord,
I sent out several request on Facebook and also I'd verbally expressed to my friends and family that I did not want any Christmas gifts. Father you have blessed me with more than enough stuff!
Some people saw the post, and some heard my request, but bought me gifts anyway. However, Beverly did not hear or see my request and I am so happy about that. So happy!
She and Amy gifted me with an #Amazing book titled: Gospel Wakefulness! I love, love, love it and I'm only on page 31! It's an absolute treasure!
Some excerpts:
#Assurance in your Salvation through Jesus Christ:
If the measure of your perfection is the measure of your assurance, you will always be a timid, fearful Christian. But if you're measure of your assurance is the perfection of Jesus Christ, you are right for a good gospel wakefulness!
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Gospel wakefulness means treasuring Christ more greatly and savoring his power more sweetly.
I'm not talking about waxing and waning the feelings of intimacy with God, movements of worship, or the sort of experiences that lead to rededicating one's life (and rededicating more after that), but an experience of such-power of such awakening-that it persists and endures, settling deep into the heart and the conscience of a believer that he carries through all emotional highs and lows.
This is not a second conversion experience, but rather a deeper and fuller appreciation of the first and only necessary conversion, A greater vision of what we perhaps only barely and minimally perceived upon salvation.
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This was an excerpt in the book by another title: The Bruised Reed
Let us remember that Grace is increased, in the exercise of it, not by virtue of the exercise itself, but as Christ by his Spirit flows into the soul and brings us nearer to himself, the fountain, so instilling such comfort that the heart is further enlarged.
#MYLORD
I WANT MORE OF YOU!!!!!!
Eternally yours
