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Daily Help – December 06
DECEMBER 6 We shall never sing Gloria in excelsis except we pray to God De profundis: out of the depths must we cry, or we shall never behold glory in the highest. Prayer should be perfumed with love, saturated with love—love to our fellow-saints, and love to Christ. A manRead More …
Streams in the Desert – December 6
December 6 “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.” (Rev. 3:11.) GEORGE MUELLER bears this testimony, “When it pleased God in July, 1829, to reveal to my heart the truth of the personal return of the Lord Jesus, and to showRead More …
A Heart That Loves God
December 6 A Heart That Loves God For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.—Hosea 6:6 No amount of activity for God will ever take the place of a heart that is right with Him. Through the ages God’s people have been persuadedRead More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 06
December 6 He that watereth shall be watered also himself. Prov. 11:25, The effective life and the receptive life are one. No sweep of arm that does some work for God but harvests also some more of the truth of God, and sweeps it into the treasury of life. —PhillipsRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – December 5
December 5 Ezekiel 47:6-48:35 Psalm 137:1-6 Proverbs 29:18-21 1 John 4:1-21 God—the Aggressive Lover Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us.—1 John 4:10 When we perceive how much God loves us, an amazing effect is produced in our personalities—we begin to love likeRead More …
Daily Light on the Daily Path – December 05
DECEMBER 5 MORNING It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. Psalm 119:71 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. — We suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For IRead More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs – December 05
December 5 The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.—1 Peter 5:10. Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted.—Isaiah 7:4. How shall thou bear theRead More …
Honorable Lives
December 5. Reading 339. Honorable Lives Hebrews 13 “We are sure that we have a clear conscience and a desire to live honorably in every way” (Heb. 13:18). Exhortations to honorable living grow naturally out of the most exalted doctrine. Overview The writer closes with exhortations (13:1-19), with one ofRead More …
Daily Help – December 05
DECEMBER 5 Do not dissociate Jesus from our common manhood. It is a dark room which you are going through, but Jesus went through it before. It is a sharp fight which you are waging, but Jesus has stood foot to foot with the same enemy. Let us be ofRead More …
D5 Creation
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James
James Introduction This letter was written by James, the brother of Jesus, who was a leader of the Jerusalem church (cf. Acts 15:13-29; Gal. 2:12). It may date from the late a.d. 40s, just after persecution scattered the members of the new movement (James 1:1; cf. Acts 8:1-3). If so,Read More …
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