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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Some talk of it as an unreasonable thing to fright persons to heaven, but I think it is a reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from hell. They stand upon its brink, and are just ready to fall into it, and are senseless of their danger. Is it not a reasonable thing to fright a person out of a house of fire? Or is it not the duty of a parent to warn their child running toward the edge of a cliff?
Jonathan Edwards

Unction is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It carries the Word like dynamite, like salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an accuser, a revealer, a searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint, makes him weep like a child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently, yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves. This unction is not the gift of genius. It is not found in the hall of learning. No eloquence can woo it. No industry can win it. It is the gift of God - the signet set to His own messengers. It is heaven’s knighthood given to the chosen true and brave ones who have sought this anointed honor through many an hour of tearful, wrestling prayer. Earnestness is good and impressive; genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, a more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and depraved hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but holy unction can do this.
E.M. Bounds

Bible – Afrikaans – Psalms Chapter 140:1-14.

Index: Afrikaans

 

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140:1 Vir die musiekleier. ‘n Psalm van Dawid.

140:2 Red my, HERE, van die kwaaddoeners, bewaar my vir die manne van geweld;

140:3 wat slegte dinge in die hart bedink, wat elke dag stryd verwek.

140:4 Hulle maak hul tong skerp soos ‘n slang; gif van ‘n adder is onder hulle lippe. Sela.

140:5 Bewaar my, HERE, vir die hande van die goddelose; behoed my vir die manne van geweld wat planne beraam om my voete weg te stoot.

140:6 Trotsaards het vir my ‘n vangnet gespan en toue; hulle het ‘n net uitgespan aan die kant van die pad; strikke het hulle vir my gestel. Sela.

140:7 Ek het tot die HERE gesê: U is my God; luister tog, HERE, na die stem van my smekinge!

140:8 HERE Here, Sterkte van my heil, U beskut my hoof in die dag van stryd!

140:9 HERE, gee tog nie die begeertes van die goddelose nie; laat sy listige plan nie geluk, sodat hulle hul verhef nie. Sela.

140:10 Wat betref die hoof van die wat my omring- laat die onheil van hulle lippe hulle oordek.

140:11 Laat vurige kole op hulle afgegooi word; mag Hy hulle laat val in die vuur, in kuile, sodat hulle nie weer opstaan nie!

140:12 Laat die kwaadspreker nie op aarde bevestig word nie; die man van geweld- laat die ongeluk hom jaag met slag op slag.

140:13 Ek weet dat die HERE die regsaak van die ellendige, die reg van die behoeftiges sal behartig.

140:14 Sekerlik, die regverdiges sal u Naam loof, die opregtes sal voor u aangesig woon.