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Streams in the Desert – August 18
August 18 “Alone.” (Deut. 32:12.) “The hill was steep, but cheered along the way By converse sweet, I mounted on the thought That so it might be till the height was reached; But suddenly a narrow winding path Appeared, and then the Master said, ‘My child, Here thou wilt safestRead More …
The Danger of Bitterness
The Danger of Bitterness Many are hurt when we give in to negative emotions. August 18, 2022 1 Samuel 18:1-30 Have you ever seen a person overtaken by bitterness? It is very sad to watch someone consumed by that type of darkness. None of us intend to end up inRead More …
Someday
August 18, 2022 Someday by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Philippians 4:11-13 SOMEDAY WHEN THE KIDS ARE GROWN, things are going to be a lot different. The garage won’t be full of bikes, electric train tracks on plywood, sawhorses surrounded by chunks of two-by-fours, nails, a hammer and saw, unfinished “experimental projects,”Read More …
Daily Bread
August 18 Daily Bread Give us today our daily bread.—Matthew 6:11 Jesus often reminded His followers not to worry. He told them not to be anxious about tomorrow’s needs or potential problems (Matt. 6:25). Rather, Jesus stressed a daily reliance on the Father, who provides for His children day byRead More …
Morning – August 18
Morning “Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.” Jeremiah 51:51 In this account the faces of the Lord’s people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we seeRead More …
What is Heaven Like?
Today’s Scripture Reading 1After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 2 At once IRead More …
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
August 18 My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. 12:9. God’s way of answering His people’s prayers is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing their strength to bear it. The pressure is often the fence between the narrow wayRead More …
Evening – August 17
Evening “This sickness is not unto death.” John 11:4 From our Lord’s words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an “unto” within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might pass through death, but death was not to beRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible
August 17 Nehemiah 7:1-60 Psalm 99:1-9 Proverbs 20:13-15 Romans 9:27-10:15 The Power of Holiness Exalt the Lord our God; bow in worship at His footstool. He is holy. —Psalm 99:5 “No one can know the true grace of God,” said the great Bible teacher A. W. Tozer, “who has notRead More …
Daily Light – August 17
AUGUST 17 MORNING Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. James 5:16 Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all cityRead More …
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