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Daily Strength for Daily Needs
February 17 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations [or “trials”], knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.—James 1:2, 3. For patience, when the rough winds blow! For patience, when our hopes are fading,— When visible things all backward go, And nowhereRead More …
Movements And Motives
February 17. Movements And Motives Psalm 139:2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought ajar off. The Lord watches our movements. He is observing us. He doesn’t just look at you when you are at church. Some of us think that when we leave church we’reRead More …
Daily Help
From the cross of Calvary, where the bleeding hands of Jesus drop mercy; from the garden of Gethsemane, the cry comes, “Look unto me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth.” From Calvary’s summit, where Jesus cries, “It is finished,” I hear a shout, “Look, and be saved.”Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“The land which I do give them, even the children of Israel.” (Joshua 1:2.) GOD here speaks in the immediate present. It is not something He is going to do, but something He does do, this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting youRead More …
The Cost of Our Salvation
The Cost of Our Salvation Jesus endured great pain so that we could become children of God. February 17, 2022 Philippians 2:5-8 Our culture is inclined to enjoy temporary pleasures while disregarding what God says is the price of transgression (Rom. 6:23). Even believers—especially those who have known Jesus aRead More …
The Ugly Red Monster
February 17, 2022 The Ugly Red Monster by Pastor Chuck Swindoll Proverbs 23:17-19 You may have heard the expression “green with envy” or envy referred to as “the green-eyed monster.” In the Bible, however, envy had the Hebrews seeing red. The Hebrew word translated “envy” and “jealousy” is quanah, whichRead More …
Take up Your Cross
Take up Your Cross Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.”—Matthew 16:24 Your “cross” is God’s will for you, regardless of the cost. Taking up your cross is a choice; it is notRead More …
Matt 27:50-51
50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split Matt 27:50-51
Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
February 16th Boast not thyself of tomorrow. Prov. 27:2. The only preparation for the morrow is the right use of today. The stone in the hands of the builder must be put in its place and fitted to receive another. The morrow comes for naught, if today is not heeded.Read More …
Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible
February 16 Exodus 35:1-36:19 Psalm 22:16-21 Proverbs 5:11-14 Matthew 27:1-23 The Way Is—Surrender How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.—Proverbs 5:12 How do we go about controlling our strong urges? Do we push them under? No, for as Hadfield said, “Repressed instincts are like bad boys who,Read More …
D5 Creation