Press Through To Jesus!

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Bring Him hither to me. Matthew 17:17

The disciples had failed to cast out demons from this poor boy, but Jesus never fails. How good to know that when men fail and churches fail, we can still get through to Jesus. Back of all the fads and isms, the failure of the saints and the impotency of some churches, He stands, the same yesterday and today and forever.

You will find what you need in Jesus. Not in that book which you hope will reveal some magic open sesame on the next page. Not in some group or denomination that seems to have just what you’ve been looking for. Not in some self-induced experience you’ve been trying to work up. Not in a pet preacher or favorite cause or doctrine. All these will disappoint you. Our Lord said of the hungry multitude, “They need not depart.” You never need to leave Jesus for anything. He is Alpha and Omega-and all the letters between-so you need not go outside His alphabet to complete the wording of your life.

All that is true and in any book or movement or group or doctrine or experience is already in Christ. Get through to the Source. “By him all things consist.”

by Vance Havner

December 17th, 2012

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The ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them—Numbers 10:33

God does give us impressions but not with the intent that we should act on them as impressions. If the impression comes from God, He will Himself give sufficient evidence to establish it beyond the possibility of a doubt.

We read of the impression that came to Jeremiah concerning the purchase of the field of Anathoth. Jeremiah, however, did not act upon this impression until after the following day, when his Uncle’s son came to him and brought him external evidence by making a proposal for the purchase – Then Jeremiah said,

I knew that this was the word of the Lord (Jeremiah 32:8).

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