Don't Wait Till You Are Old...

Yesterday, as part of the teaching team in a room full of beautiful,

eager, smart, rambunctious Gr. 4-6 Sunday School students,

I couldn't help but long and pray

 for each of them to choose Jesus while they are young;

to be saved from a bitter harvest of wasted years!

Yesterday's was a solemn lesson; Jesus' crucifixion,

stirring and touching tender hearts!

Will you pray for them, and for children the whole wide world over

to believe in and receive Jesus as their Saviour while they are young?!!

On Saturday I compiled  this post after listening to the message below...

and before listening to the message our speaker preached yesterday

also on prayer!!!

( Click here then click Nov. 12, 2023) for yesterday's message

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Devote yourselves to prayer, 

being watchful and thankful.

Col.4:2

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Ephesians 6:18

Pray in the Spirit at all times, 

with every kind of prayer and petition. 

To this end, stay alert with all perseverance 

in your prayers for all the saints.

Below are some excerpts from Alistair's message;

Notes from the Flyleaf of My Bible — 11/11/2023

Alistair Begg begins this message, (an address to students), with this;

 "The things I want to share with you are things

that are pressingly important to me.

They are personal things.

They are biblical truths.

They are necessary matters"...

 

If our prayer is meager 

it is because we believe it to be supplemental

 and not fundamental.

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If we pray only when we feel like it

we will not pray very much at all.

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More spiritual progress is made through failure and tears

than through success and laughter.

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C.T. Stodd

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me

then no sacrifice that I could ever make for Him 

could ever be too great

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Can I tell you how to amount to absolutely nothing for God?

Think of yourself more highly than you ought.

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Humility is the very seed-bed

in which all of the graces and gifts of God

grow to their maturity

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1 Pet. 5:6

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, 

that he may lift you up in due time.

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I am not talking about our resolves.

I am not talking about our desires and designs.

I am talking about our doing!

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I want to tell you,

"When I talk more than I pray,

When I study more than I seek God's help,

When I am tempted to think that when I am on my feet

I am at my most useful,

and when I am on my knees that I am

somehow filling in time that could be more beneficially exercised,

then I am declaring that I am on the wrong side

of this equation.

You see, since prayer is the  key area of our relationship

with our Heavenly Father, it is this area

that is most frequently under attack.

Indeed, I might safely say to you

that you will face no greater attack than in this area

because the evil one knows that the weaponry

that our Commander in Chief, namely Jesus,

has given to us is prayer and the ministry of the word of God.

Therefore He will come to confront us with our view of scripture

and to seek to call in question

the voracity and the sufficiency of God's word,

and he will at the same time seek to undermine any

deep-seated conviction that we have,

that it is imperative that we come to Him and cry out

'Abba, Father!' and that we seek His help

in every part of our journey.."

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No Christian is greater than his/her prayer life

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The secret to praying is

praying in secret

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...but, in the matter of praying

how tragic that so many

have left so much

to so few...

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Set your moral compasses now.

Take the high ground.

Go for the gold.

Live for Christ.

There is no good thing that the Lord withholds

from those whose walk is blameless

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...and here is my prayer

for every boy and girl

the wide world over...

Don't wait till you are old

To seek the good and right 

Don't wait till worldly pleasure clouds

God's wellspring of delight 

Remember your Creator

While in your days of youth

Don't wait till you are old to mine

 God's Word for wealth of truth

But love the Lord today

With all your heart; don't wait

Till you are old, to start, because

Then it may be too late

This is my earnest plea

For every girl and boy

Don't wait till you are old, and life

Is full of wasted joy

This is my earnest plea

For children far and near

Don't wait till  God becomes a Voice

That you no longer hear

© Janet Martin

Eccles.12:1

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, 

Before the difficult days come, 

And the years draw near when you say,

 “I have no pleasure in them”:

Isa.66:1-2

This is what the Lord says:

“Heaven is my throne,

and the earth is my footstool.

Where is the house you will build for me?

Where will my resting place be?

2Has not my hand made all these things,

and so they came into being?”

declares the Lord.

“These are the ones I look on with favor:

those who are humble and contrite in spirit,

and who tremble at my word.