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Divine Discipline

December 4. Reading 338. Divine Discipline Hebrews 12 “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it” (Heb. 12:11). To benefit from discipline we must respond to it. Overview The exampleRead More …

Daily Strength for Daily Needs – December 4

December 4 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called.—1 Timothy 6:12. Oh, dream no more of quiet life; Care finds the careless out; more wise to vow Thy heart entire to faith’s pure strife; So peace will come, thou knowest notRead More …

Daily Help – December 04

DECEMBER 4 “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”—I John 2:1. What words of tenderness, what sentences of persuasion, will the anointed use when he stands up to plead for me! “Jesus Christ the righteous.” This is not only his character, butRead More …

Streams in the Desert – December 04

December 4 “He went up into a mountain apart.” (Matt. 14:23.) ONE of the blessings of the old-time Sabbath was its calm, its restfulness, its holy peace. There is a strange strength conceived in solitude. Crows go in flocks and wolves in packs, but the lion and the eagle areRead More …

A Tender Plant

December 4 A Tender Plant He grew up before Him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground.—Isaiah 53:2 The coming of Jesus was like a tender plant in the midst of a parched ground. Parched ground offers little hope for survival; it is dry andRead More …

Morning – December 04

Morning “I have much people in this city.” Acts 18:10 This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the WordRead More …

Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 04

December 4 They all forsook Him, and fled. Mark 14:50. Separation never come from His side. —J. Hudson Taylor Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – December 04

Evening – December 03

Evening “The Lord mighty in battle.” Psalm 24:8 Well may our God be glorious in the eyes of his people, seeing that he has wrought such wonders for them, in them, and by them. For them, the Lord Jesus upon Calvary routed every foe, breaking all the weapons of theRead More …

Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – December 3

December 3 Ezekiel 43:13-44:31 Psalm 136:10-16 Proverbs 29:13-14 1 John 2:12-29 God Is a Father I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who is from the beginning.—1 John 2:13 God is a Father in the creative sense and the familial sense. So, forRead More …

Daily Light on the Daily Path – December 03

DECEMBER 3 MORNING I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause. Job 5:8 Is anything too hard for the Lord? — Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. — Be careful for nothing; but inRead More …