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Evening – August 26
Evening “The people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.” Mark 9:15 How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration, so that his countenance shone withRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – August 26
August 26 Job 4:1-6:10 Psalm 103:15-22 Proverbs 21:6-7 1 Corinthians 1:20-2:9 It Lacks That My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a powerful demonstration by the Spirit. —1 Corinthians 2:4 Much of modern-day Christianity is lacking power and conviction because it lacks aRead More …
Daily Light – August 26
AUGUST 26 MORNING Thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet: HOLINESS TO THE LORD. Exodus 28:36 Holiness, without which no man can see the Lord. — God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him inRead More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
August 26 Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.—Zechariah 2:13. Be earth, with all her scenes, withdrawn; Let noise and vanity be gone: In secret silence of the mind, My heaven, and there my God, I find. I. WATTS It is only with the pious affection of the willRead More …
Chilly Waters
August 26. Chilly Waters Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death… We like to sing about death. I took the initiative to observe men while they were singing about chilly waters. They were all smiling and getting into it. We shout on thoseRead More …
Daily Help – August 26
AUGUST 26 In all our wanderings the watchful glance of the Eternal Watcher is evermore fixed upon us—we never roam beyond the Shepherd’s eye. In our sorrows he observes us incessantly, and not a pang escapes him; in our toils he marks all our weariness, and writes in his bookRead More …
Streams in the Desert – August 26
August 26 “It is not in me.” (Job 28:14.) I REMEMBER a summer in which I said, “It is the ocean I need,” and I went to the ocean; but it seemed to say, “It is not in me!” The ocean did not do for me what I thought itRead More …
How to Hold On
How to Hold On Commit to trust God and discover His peace, which enables you to endure whatever life brings. August 26, 2022 Psalm 37:5-7 Job knew trouble and temptation, but he boldly claimed, “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him” (Job 13:15). He had lost his children,Read More …
Grandparenting, Part Two
August 26, 2022 Grandparenting, Part Two by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Psalm 100:3-5 Grandparents. What amazing gifts from God. Generation after generation He provides a fresh set of them . . . an ever-present counterculture in our busy world. Lest everyone else get so involved they no longer stop to smell the flowersRead More …
Redeeming the Time
August 26 Redeeming the Time Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— making the most of the time, because the days are evil.—Ephesians 5:15–16 These days we are bombarded with opportunities that entice us to invest our time and energy. Each day theRead More …
D5 Creation