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Random, insane rantings

God as our Shield

" Abraham do not be afraid I am your shield and your very great reward."  I know that those words were addressed to Abraham and not to me but they said something about how God relates to his people.
 
How much I've been shielded! How much protection I have received from the grace of God! God is our shield Anytime we feel a little bump in the road or an arrow that hits us we panic and despair and complain that we aren't being protected.  Just think how much more has missed us because He has been our shield! How much easier it is to bear the difficulties in life when we keep our focus on the One who shields us, and the rewards that await us.

(From a lecture by R.C.Sproul)

My BLESSED Assurance

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From: Andrea Mikeal <andibeth@gmail.com>
Date: February 3, 2010 12:15:43 PM CST
To: Andrea Mikeal <andrea@mikeal.org>

For me in the flesh have any true affection for Jesus Christ I hear Jesus when He says "no one can come to me unless it is given to him " and " I know I have believed and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto that day" and my assurance rests in the testimony of a Holy Spirit that is working together with my spirit for asssuring me that I am a child of God . If this voice is the logical conclusion of an Armenian I would have to believe that I could choose Christ without the Holy Spirit's regenerating and I can have faith without regeneration and therefore I can lose it just as fast. 

Exerpts from R.C. Sproul