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Streams in the Desert
“Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord: he will deliver the Moabites also intoRead More …
Raining Righteousness
Raining Righteousness Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your untilled ground. It is time to seek the Lord until He comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.—Hosea 10:12 The people of Hosea’s day had become hardened to God’s Word. They had heard it manyRead More …
Daily Help
Is, then, your calling a high calling? Has it ennobled your heart, and set it upon heavenly things? Has it elevated your hopes, your tastes, your desires? If man alone call thee, thou art uncalled. Is thy calling of God? Is it a call to heaven as well as fromRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Perfect through suffering.” (Heb. 2:10.) STEEL is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the bath that cleans, the comb that separates, and the flail that pounds, and the shuttle that weaves. Human character must have a plus attached to it. TheRead More …
Profitable
Profitable All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.—2 Timothy 3:16–17 All Scripture is profitable! Knowing this, we cheat ourselves when we do not accessRead More …
Daily Help
This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us not by his personal presence, as he shall do by and by, but by the indwelling and constant abiding of the Holy Ghost, who is evermore the Comforter of the church. It is his officeRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“There remaineth, therefore, a rest to the people of God.” (Heb. 4:9.) The rest includes victory, “And the Lord gave them, rest round about;… the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.” (Joshua 21:44.) “He will beautify the meek with victory.” (Psalm 149:4.) (Rotherham, margin.) AN eminent Christian workerRead More …
Not Quarrelsome
Not Quarrelsome The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient. . . —2 Timothy 2:24 There should be no quarrelsome Christians. The truth of God is within us; we need never be intimidated or frustrated by those who do not accept God’s truth. AtRead More …
Daily Help
“Now on whom dost thou trust.”—Isaiah 36:5. Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian’s answer, and see if it is yours. “On whom dost thou trust?” “I trust,” says the Christian, the Son—the man Christ Jesus. I trust in him to take away all my sins byRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.” (Jer. 45:5.) A PROMISE given for hard places, and a promiseRead More …
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