Heartcry Journal - Issue 42

Tue, Jul 1, 2008
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Includes articles by John Stott, Larry McCall, Kris Lundgaard, R. A. Torrey, Fred Hartley III, Byron Paulus, and Bill Elliff.

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John Stott
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Like Christ

“Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ”(1 Corinthians 11:1).   “Imitators . . . of Christ.” By these words Christ urges us to mold our lives and characters in the image of his. But how can one imitate Christ? Anyone who meditates on that unique life sees a great gulf between him and us, the gulf between perfection and sin. Consider his single-minded devotion to the Father, and to the Father’s will, from which nothing would deflect him though it meant the pain and dereliction of the cross. Then consider our wanderings, our willfulness, our feeble and flabby compromises ...

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Larry McCall
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Perseverance in Suffering

“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3).   Those prophetic words were spoken about the Messiah by the prophet Isaiah 700 years before Jesus Christ was born in that Bethlehem stable. Jesus was indeed very “familiar with suffering” during His 33 years in this fallen world. 1. Jesus experienced physical suffering. During His 40 days of temptation in the wilderness, Jesus experienced hunger and thirst. He knew the bone-aching exhaustion that came from long, hard days of ministering to people. And He drank fully from the cup of suffering found ...

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Kris Lundgaard
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Backsliding

The Scriptures are full of believers who slide down the slippery slope or off the sheer cliff. Haven’t you seen this in your life, the casual drifting away from God until you hardly know him? And don’t you grieve over the long list of believers, many of them among the greatest followers of Christ, who inexplicably dove into some sin that wrecked their conscience? Since God so often warns us of spiritual decay, and since he makes so many promises of recovery from it, and since we have so many striking examples of those who stumbled, it shouldn ...

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R. A. Torrey
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Why God Used D. L. Moody

You will find the whole secret of why D. L. Moody was such a mightily used man in Psalm 62:11: “God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God” (emphasis added). I am glad it does. I’m glad that power did not belong to D. L. Moody. If D. L. Moody had any power—and he had great power—he got it from God. But God does not give His power arbitrarily. It is true that He gives it to whomever He will, but He wills to give it on certain conditions, which ...

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Fred Hartley III
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The Fire of God's Presence

The Bible is full of fire. God's first act in creation was to gather together gasses and set them on fire by declaring, "Let there be light" (Gen. 1:3). When all is said and done, God's final act will be accomplished with fire. All history is thereby bracketed with the fire of God. It started with creative fire and it will end with consuming fire. From the first to the last pages of the Bible, people met God in the flames of His transforming presence. I want you to envision your life being set on fire by ...

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Byron Paulus
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Editorial

On an airplane headed toward a recent conference where I was scheduled to speak on family relationships, my flying companion asked, “What sets the revival message apart from self-help or other counseling methods?”Now, that’s a great question!   My answer was this: The revival message is based on the assumption that a person’s vertical relationship with God is the foundation of all their horizontal relationships with others. In other words, starting with God is essential to lasting transformation . . . in all areas of life.   Of course, the great temptation is to reverse that fundamental order. In the press to ...

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Bill Elliff
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Meditation

And Joshua said, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you” (Joshua 3:5).   Every day God manifests Himself, and most days we miss it. Clouded by secular cataracts, distracted by the barrenness of a busy life, we move through our schedules and wonder why God never seems to speak to us, why we never see His miraculous work in our family, why we never hear His call to the extraordinary. Even the heavens declare God’s wonder with daily regularity, but for us it’s just a “nice night.” Our overcrowded souls have no room for ...

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