God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
What does in mean to be spiritually poor? It means to be humble. It means to understand that you have no merit to offer to God. It means to understand that all you deserve is hell. It means to understand that you are spiritually bankrupt. It means to understand the unfathomable riches of Christ that by God’s sovereign grace have been accredited to your account. It means to boast not in yourself, but in Christ. It means emptying yourself of all your pride that the Holy Spirit might fill you with all of Christ… The humble pursuit of spiritual poverty is the path to true happiness. Empty of self, filled with the Holy Spirit and His fruit of joy.
O sinner! The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire. He looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight. You are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. O sinner! You have offended Him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but His hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. O sinner! It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you were allowed to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. O sinner! There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking His pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending His solemn worship. O sinner! Yes, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in! O sinner! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over, in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you, as against many of the damned in hell. O sinner! You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. And you have no interest in any Mediator, and nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you ever have done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment!
Combine 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 tsp. salt & 1/4 tsp. pepper. Coat 1 1/2 lb
skinned boneless chicken breasts with seasoned flour. Saute' in 3
Tbls. oil in large skillet. Remove chicken from skillet. Saute' 1
sliced small onion, 1 small sliced green pepper, 1 cup sliced
zucchini & 1 cup fresh mushrooms in 2 Tbls. oil. Return chicken to
skillet. Arrange vegetables over top. Combine 1 2/3 cups (15oz)
Italian Style Tomato Sauce, 1 crushed garlic clove, 1/2 tsp. oregano
leaves & 1/2 tsp. dried rosemary. Pour over chicken. Heat to boiling.
Reduce heat, cover & boil gently for 10 minutes or until chicken is
cooked. Serve over pasta or rice.
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