What are you ambitious to achieve? What if I had you compose a list of your goals and priorities. If you didn’t just hear the verse that read, would “pleasing God” (2 Cor. 5:9) even make the top-ten? How often do we arise each day with the prayerful intention that simply says, “Lord, it is my ambition to please You today!” Perhaps we’d put it on paper, but are we really doing it? And if we are not doing it, but we know we should and want to in our heart, what is it that’s preventing us? Can I submit that whatever your answer is, it boils down to the fact that we are not walking by faith in God’s glorious promises (2 Cor. 5:7).
Randy Smith

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Spurgeon PS1822

Spurgeon PS1822 EXPOSITION. "_For all his judgments were before me_." The word, the character, and the actions of God should be evermore before our eyes; we should learn, consider, and…

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Spurgeon PS1838

Spurgeon PS1838 EXPOSITION. The destruction of our spiritual enemies is complete. We may exult over sin, death and hell, as disarmed and disabled _for_ us by our conquering Lord; may…

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Spurgeon PS1807

Spurgeon PS1807 EXPOSITION. There was no great space between the cry and its answer. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, but is swift to rescue his afflicted. David…

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Spurgeon PS1823

Spurgeon PS1823 EXPOSITION. "_I was also upright before him_." Sincerity is here claimed; sincerity, such as would be accounted genuine before the bar of God. Whatever evil men might think…

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Spurgeon PS1839

Spurgeon PS1839 EXPOSITION. 39,40. It is impossible to be too frequent in the duty of ascribing all our victories to the God of our salvation. It is true that we…

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Spurgeon PS1808

Spurgeon PS1808 EXPOSITION. "_There went up a smoke out of his nostrils_." A violent oriental method of expressing fierce wrath. Since the breath from the nostrils is heated by strong…

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Spurgeon PS1824

Spurgeon PS1824 EXPOSITION. God first gives us holiness, and then rewards us for it. We are his workmanship; vessels made unto honour; and when made, the honour is not withheld…

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Spurgeon PS1841

Spurgeon PS1841 EXPOSITION. "_They cried, but there was none to save them; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not_." Prayer is so notable a weapon that even the…

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Spurgeon PS1809

Spurgeon PS1809 EXPOSITION. Amid the terror of the storm Jehovah the Avenger descended, bending beneath his foot the arch of heaven. "_He bowed the heavens also, and came down_." He…

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Spurgeon PS1825

Spurgeon PS1825 EXPOSITION. The dealings of the Lord in his own case, cause the grateful singer to remember the usual rule of God's moral government; he is just in his…

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