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Who Are You?

December 18 Who Are You? The evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize—but who are you?”—Acts 19:15 There is no secondhand spirituality. No one else can develop Christian maturity on your behalf. A strong Christian heritage is an asset, but it cannot take the place ofRead More …

Morning – December 18

Morning “Rend your heart, and not your garments.” Joel 2:13 Garment-rending and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will attend to the most multiplied and minute ceremonial regulations–forRead More …

Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 18

December 18 Cleanse Thou me from secret faults. Psa. 19:12. The world needs men who are free from secret faults. Most men are free from gross, public faults. —Selected Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 18

Evening – December 17

Evening “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9 Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God himself. He gives toRead More …

Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – December 17

December 17 Joel 3:1-Amos 2:16 Psalm 143:1-6 Proverbs 30:21-23 Revelation 7:1-17 Fresh Water The Lamb … will guide them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.—Revelation 7:17 The idea for the theme of “staying spiritually fresh” arose out of a letter IRead More …

Daily Light on the Daily Path – December 17

DECEMBER 17 MORNING Quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. Psalm 80:18 It is the Spirit that quickeneth. — The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings whichRead More …

Tests Of Faith

December 17. Reading 351. Tests Of Faith 1 John 2:3-3:24 “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence” (1Read More …

Daily Strength for Daily Needs – December 17

December 17 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.—Galatians 5:22, 23. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.—John 15:8. O Breath from out the Eternal Silence! blow Softly upon our spirits’ barren ground;Read More …

Daily Help – December 17

DECEMBER 17 Our Lord would have all his people rich in high and happy thoughts concerning his blessed person. As a help to high thoughts of Christ, remember the estimation that Christ is had in beyond the skies. Think how God esteems the only begotten, his unspeakable gift to us.Read More …

Streams in the Desert – December 17

December 17 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it.” (1 Thess. 5:23, 24.) MANY yearsRead More …