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Delivered into Your Hand
August 2 Delivered into Your Hand The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have handed them over to you. Not one of them will be able to stand against you.”—Joshua 10:8 No greater confidence will ever come to you or to any other ChristianRead More …
Morning – August 02
Morning “Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” Ephesians 1:11 Our belief in God’s wisdom supposes and necessitates that he has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation have been without his design? Is there a fish in the sea,Read More …
2 Corinthians 1:3-5
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 ForRead More …
Belittled
Belittled Trapped like a firefly in a mason jar. Stifled, I peered out, watching others’ dreams, hopes and joys twinkle and fly by my stagnant ones. My own desires sat dusty in my valley of pain. Extinguished. Exhausted. Expectant no longer. “I’m so sorry your dreams are dashed,” my friendRead More …
Thoughts – August 02
August 2 He entered into one of the ships… and… sat down. Luke 5:3. When Jesus sits in the ship everything is in its right place. The cargo is in the hold, not in the heart. Cares and gains, fears and losses, yesterday’s failure and today’s success do not thrustRead More …
Evening – August 01
Evening “Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.” Psalm 65:11 All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God neverRead More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – August 01
August 1 2 Chronicles 17:1-18:34 Psalm 89:46-52 Proverbs 19:8-9 Acts 25:23-26:18 No Need for Dead Reckoning In fact, I myself supposed it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.—Acts 26:9 The place where we can see life as a whole is inRead More …
Daily Light – August 01
August 1 MORNING The fruit of the Spirit is … faith. Galatians 5:22 By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. — Without faith it is impossible to please him. — He that believeth on him is not condemned: butRead More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
August 1 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.—Ecclesiastes 7:9. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath —Ephesians 4:26. Quench thou the fires of hate and strife, The wasting fever of the heart; From perils guard our feebleRead More …
Pharaoh’s Fitful Dreams
August 1. Pharaoh’s Fitful Dreams Genesis 41:8 In the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. Two years haveRead More …
D5 Creation