Thoughts for each day from the Scriptures and the eight volumes of the writings of George Fox
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| Having loved His own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. | ||
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| Whom God loves, he loves to the end, where the eternal unity is, there is all peace... | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. | ||
| (I Cor. 14:15) | ||
| Awake, awake all people every where who live in forms, see what ye possess, not having the eternal spirit that gave forth the scriptures; all your formal prayers, formal preaching, formal singing, will be found as the chaff, which is for the unquenchable fire; for Christ is risen, the true light shines . . . | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| Sing ye praises with understanding (Psalm 47:7 ....Here they worship the work of their own hands; all such practice we deny! but we will sing with the spirit, we will sing with grace, we will sing with understanding, praises, praises unto the Lord God on high. 3rd Month, 4 Mind the Pure Light of God In You My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. | ||
| (Galatians 4:19 | ||
| Therefore, all dear people, who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and the appearance of Jesus Christ in your souls, be not talkers of the truth...but mind the pure light of God in you... | ||
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| My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. | ||
| (Galatians 4:19 | ||
| Therefore, all dear people, who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and the appearance of Jesus Christ in your souls, be not talkers of the truth...but mind the pure light of God in you... | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| But without faith it is impossible to please him. | ||
| (Heb. 11:6) | ||
| There is one faith which justifeth and purifieth the heart, which is the gift of God, which giveth victory over all that which hath separated man from God, by which faith man hath again access to God, and in which faith he pleases God, and in this faith is the unity of the church.... | ||
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| From Whom Your Strength Comes Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. | ||
| (Heb. 12:2) | ||
| Look not at the temptations, but look at Christ, and there thou wilt receive power...look to Christ, he was tempted, who overcame: look to him who overcame, he is the captain of our salvation...look to him from whom your strength comes... | ||
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| For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him. | ||
| (II Timothy 2:11) | ||
| Now it is an easy matter to make outward profession of Christ's death, but it is another matter to come to die with Christ, and suffer with him; which they must do; if they will come to live, and be glorified with him. | ||
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| For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. | ||
| (John 6:33) | ||
| So his heavenly flesh is the saints' daily food and bread from heaven; and they that deny the heavenly man, Christ Jesus, that died and suffered without the gates of Jerusalem...his sufferings, death, and resurrection, deny their own food, and their own heavenly bread... | ||
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| The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. | ||
| (Psalm 145:9) | ||
| The Lord God of heaven and earth, who is the creator and maker of all things therein, which created and made all things good; so he is the great Lord of all, both of things in heaven, and things in the earth, and therefore all things are to be subject to the great Lord, especially man and woman, whom he made in his own likeness and image. | ||
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| To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life. | ||
| (Rev. 2:7) | ||
| So all must be baptized with the baptism of Christ, with fire and the Holy Ghost; and all their disobedience, transgression, sin and corruption, and their chaff must be plunged down and burnt up by the baptism of Christ, before they can come into the paradise of God, and have right to eat of the tree of life. | ||
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| That we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. | ||
| (Rom. 15:4) | ||
| So all people's applying scriptures, or promises, or prophecies, whilst they grieve God's good spirit in their hearts, and hate his light that shines there, and walk despitefully against the spirit of grace, and so disobey the voice and command of God and Christ, which cannot have comfort of God, nor Christ, nor the scriptures, nor the promises nor prophecies of them. But they that walk in the light, and spirit and grace, and the gospel, they have the comfort of God and Christ, and the prophecies and promises... | ||
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| John said, "He. | ||
| (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease | ||
| (Jn. 3:30). So Christ is the purger of the heart, mind, soul, spirit, and conscience, and the body inwardly; for Christ is mightier than John, in his conception, birth, and power, and miracles. | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with me. | ||
| (Rev. 3:20) | ||
| So what door is this that Christ knocks at? is it not the door of your hearts, minds, and souls...but how can you sup with Christ, and he with you, the heavenly supper, except you hear his voice, and open the door of your hearts, and minds, and souls, and let him in, by turning from the darkness to the light, and from the power of Satan unto God..... | ||
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| The Lord hath anointed me...to proclaim liberty to the captives. | ||
| (Isaiah 61:1) | ||
| The Lord's arm and power did preserve me; though many times I was in danger of my life, and very often cast into dungeons and prisons, and hailed before magistrates. But all things did work together for good: and the more I was cast into outward prisons, the more people come out of their spiritual and inward prison (through the preaching of the gospel). | ||
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| Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. | ||
| (Genesis 50:20) | ||
| And there was never any persecution that came, but we saw it was for good; and we looked upon it to be good, as from God. | ||
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| I the Lord do keep it. | ||
| (Isaiah 27:3) | ||
| For God's power, which was before the devil's was, hath been our hedge, our wall, and our keeper, and the preserver of his plants and vineyard, who have not had the magistrate's sword and staff to help them. | ||
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| Thou hast put gladness in my heart. | ||
| (Psalm 4:7) | ||
| Praise, honor, and glory be to the Lord of heaven and earth! Lord of peace, Lord of joy! Thy countenance maketh my heart glad. Lord of glory, Lord of mercy, Lord of strength, Lord of life, and of power over death, and Lord of lords, the King of kings! | ||
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| And let the peace of God rule in your hearts. | ||
| (Col. 3:15) | ||
| The world would have a Christ, but not to rule over them; the nature of the world is above Christ in man until Christ hath subdued that nature in man. | ||
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| Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. | ||
| (Deuteronomy 3:28) | ||
| And beware of discouraging any in the work of God: the laborers are few, that are faithful for God. | ||
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| While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. | ||
| (II Corinthians 4:18) | ||
| ....the children of God who are conceived and begotten of him, are not of this world, neither do they mind only the things of this world, but the things which are eternal. But the children of this world do mostly mind the external things and their love is in them, and the other live by faith. | ||
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| Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. | ||
| (Matthew 5:9) | ||
| That which is set up by the sword, is held up by the sword; and that which is set up by spiritual weapons, is held up by spiritual weapons, and not by carnal weapons. The peacemaker hath the Kingdom, and is in it; and hath the dominion over the peace-breaker, to calm him in the power of God. | ||
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| He that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. | ||
| (John 4:36) | ||
| And therefore all mind your gift, mind your measure; mind your calling and your work. Some speak to the conscience; some plough and break the clods; some weed out, and some sow... | ||
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| Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. | ||
| (Colossians 4:5) | ||
| Look not back, nor be too forward, further than ye have attained; for ye have no time, but this present time: therefore prize your time for your soul's sake. | ||
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| Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. | ||
| (Exodus 14:13) | ||
| Stand still in that which is pure, after ye see yourselves; and then mercy comes in.... Stand still in that which shows and discovers; and there doth strength immediately come. And stand still in the light, and submit to it, and the other will be hushed and gone; and then content comes. | ||
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| All my springs are in thee. | ||
| (Psalm 87:7) | ||
| Everyone in your measure wait upon God, who is the true shepherd, and leads his flock into the green pastures, and fresh springs he opens daily; this ye will see and experience. | ||
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| But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared. | ||
| (Titus 3:4) | ||
| Though you see little, and know little, and have little, and see your emptiness, and see your nakedness, and barrenness, and unfruitfulness, and see the hardness of your hearts, and your own unworthiness; it is the light, that discovers all this, and the love of God to you.... | ||
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| O give thanks unto the Lord;...for his mercy endureth for ever. | ||
| (Psalm 136:1) | ||
| So, meet together all ye that fear the Lord God, and think upon His name, His mercies endure for ever; His mercies are in temptations and troubles, His mercies are in afflictions, in reproaches, and in scorns. | ||
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| I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. | ||
| (III John 4) | ||
| To that of God in you I speak, that ye may watch over the weak, and see how the plants of the Lord grow. And walk in the joy and love of the truth, serving God with joyfulness of heart; and to you this is the word of the Lord. | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| Walk as children of light. | ||
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| ...keep close to the light in you, and do not look forth at words that proceed from a vain and light mind; but at the power of words. For the words of God, that proceed from him, are powerful and mighty in operation. | ||
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| Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. | ||
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| And dwell in love and unity with another, and know one another in the power of an endless life, which doth not change. And know the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, which is above the first Adam, the earthly, where all strife and transgression is. | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
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| And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. | ||
| (Colossians 3:17) | ||
| Let all that ye do be done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things were made and created, that ye may do that which ye do in the true dominion; and then what ye do ye do in the power of God. And all Friends, dwell in love, for that is the mark of a disciple. | ||
| (George Fox) | ||
Compiled by Gary Bowell
Copyright 1989 by Gary Bowell
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