Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit

I am reading the book, Spurgeon on the Holy Spirit, by Charles Spurgeon. Our elder gives books to the families in our church to read and learn from. These are my notes and summary from chapter one of the book. I will be posting my notes and chapter summaries for each chapter.

Chapter 1

"O foolish Galatians, are you so foolish? having begun in the spirit, are you now you made perfect by the flesh?" Gal. 3:3

Who are the Galatians? They are the people from Galatia but in this present time they may represent us and we can learn from what Paul said to them. This book starts from our helplessness to God’s forgiveness of our sins. We may think that we are good and maybe even righteous! But this is not true." As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one." Romans 3:10. The only One righteous is God the Father. And He is the only One that can save us from the fires of hell. This chapter talks about our sinful nature, and how only God is perfect. He is the only that can truly save us.

The Galatians in this verse are not satisfied with God's help and they want more than that. These are human’s sinful lusts. When we obey the Lord's commandment, the Lord will bless us. Though His blessing will be upon us in this world our greatest reward will be to see His face in heaven and to never leave His side and to worship Him all day because in heaven there will be no night. But that does not mean that our lives will be easy, no, our lives might be even harder being a Christian than being an unsaved person. However we are still not better than the unsaved people in this world. No, we always have to go to God over and over again for mercy.

Spurgeon then writes about how we cannot be saved if the Holy Spirit does not touch our spirit to be saved. It is impossible to be saved without the work of the Holy Spirit. The best preacher in the world can preach his best sermon to someone and not convince him to be saved if the Holy Spirit is not urging the person’s soul to do so.

Do Not Grow Weary in Well Doing

Here is a summary from my notes from last Sunday’s sermon.
The message was from Galatians 6:1-10. The title of the message was, Do Not Grow Weary In Well Doing. Mr. Horn started by telling us that when you are full of the spirit you walk showing the fruit of the Spirit. Walking in the spirit affects the physical aspects of our life as well as the spiritual aspects of our life. He also mentioned that you cannot have one part of the fruit without the others. Example: You cannot have love and gentleness while you are impatient with your siblings. The fruit of the spirit are actually one fruit!

Here are some questions Mr. Horn asked in his sermon:
Do you love your neighbor?
How do you love your neighbor?
There are two basic ways to know if you love your neighbor:
1. Whenever we see our neighbor doing something wrong, you go to him and explain what he (or she) is doing is wrong. You cannot do this if you have the same problem in your life and God has not helped you to overcome your problem. Also, you should never pride yourself on controlling the problems in your life. It is God’s mercy and grace that allows us to control our problems.
2. You must have a forgiving and loving attitude towards your neighbor.
Of course this is an adult’s responsibility. It could be a child’s responsibility to talk to their friends, but a child’s main responsibility is to honor and obey their parents-“Children obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth. Ephesians 6:1-3.

How can I apply this message from the Bible to my life? I can try to honor and obey my parents even more than I do now and not get tired from doing it. I can make an agreement with my sister asking her to come to me kindly when she sees me being impatient with my two little brothers. She can encourage me to be more patient with my younger brothers and some other things in my life too.

Dead Computer.....Still!

Sorry I haven't been posting. My moms computer is still broken. Thought you would like to know!

Dead Computer And Possum

Last week my moms computer crashed.I haven't been able to post in my blog since. Right now I'm posting at the library.

Three nights ago around midnight I woke up to hear my chickens yelling as loud as their little lungs could manage. I jumped out of bed, ran to get the flashlight, and ran outside.On the cage was a huge possum I ran to get a club when I got back the possum escaped. Just thought you would like to know.

A Promise Is a Promise!

This report is on a lesson called Keeping Your Word. The lesson is from Created For Work by Bob Schultz.

You've probably guessed what the lesson is about by the title.

Sometimes you make a promises that will be tempted by something fun (or anything that you would like to do) after you have made that promise. When that happens you need to be strong and resist the temptation to give up what you have to do. If you do the Lord will bless you. It may not happen at that instant, or it may not happen in this world;but the Lord will bless you! Most of the time that blessing will always include peoples trust in you.

If you are a person that does not do what he promises then the people that make promises to will not trust you any more. We should always be seeking to please our Heavenly Father and He commands that we should not lie.

Pray For Haiti

To Read the Field Report click HERE.

Children pray.

Horrible destruction.

Mr Peter Bradrick from my church is in Haiti right now. He is part of the RESCUE HAITI'S CHILDREN team founded by Mr. Doug Philip of Vision Forum.

Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. On Jan. 12, a huge earthquake hit Haiti. Since January 23 more than 150,000 people have died and many more are still missing.

Mr. Doug Phillips has put together a team called RESCUE HAITI'S CHILDREN and they are now in Haiti helping the survivors. This paragraph is from Mr. Doug Philips website where he explains his team's mission. He has live reports on his blog.

My mission to Haiti is four-fold: First, I will be establishing one of the only distinctively Christian reporting operations to tell stories of both the present crisis and the work of Christians on behalf of the sick and the widows and the orphans in the midst of Haiti’s present horror. Second, I will be working to facilitate the rescue and delivery of orphans to Christian families in America. Third, I will be identifying specific families that need direct support from the people of God in America. Fourth, my team will be providing specific relief to people in distress.

I can't even imagine the awful destruction and pain in Haiti right now. I think of all the people who have lost their wives, or husbands, and children. Many children are now orphans and many orphans from the orphanages have died or are hurt with no family to comfort them.

I pray that God will have mercy on the children and people of Haiti.

This makes me think about how we are bothered by the little things happen to us and we despair about them. I think about these people, they have no money, food or family to take care of them and love them and almost everyone was very poor before the earthquake. Little things shouldn't bring me down and I should be grateful for everything I have. Pray for the people of Haiti.

Slush and Ice

The snow is melting a little bit every day. We still have snow, just not as much as before. Now we have ice! My siblings sled on the ice now. It's faster than riding on the hard snow. It's also a relief for my chickens! Now they can get to the bugs, frozen or not!

Here are some more pictures:

Nathan sledding down the driveway.

Our driveway and street.

Our snowman.