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Streams in the Desert
“Thou hast shewed thy people hard things.” (Psa. 60:3.) I HAVE always been glad that the Psalmist said to God that some things were hard. There is no mistake about it; there are hard things in life. Some beautiful pink flowers were given me this summer, and as I tookRead More …
Crouching at the Door
Crouching at the Door If you do right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”—Genesis 4:7 When temptation enters our hearts and minds, we either deal with it and gainRead More …
Daily Help
God employs his people to encourage one another. We should be glad that God usually works for man by man. It forms a bond of brotherhood, and being mutually dependent on one another, we are fused more completely into one family. Brethren, take the text as God’s message to youRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Believe ye that I am able to do this?” (Matt. 9:28.) GOD deals with impossibilities. It is never too late for Him to do so, when the impossible is brought to Him, in full faith, by the one in whose life and circumstances the impossible must be accomplished if GodRead More …
Standing with Others
Standing with Others Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their efforts. For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.—Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 From the beginning of time, God made it clear thatRead More …
Daily Help
Since the first hour in which goodness came into conflict with evil, it has never ceased to be true in spiritual experience, that Satan hinders us. If we toil in the field, he seeks to break the ploughshare; if we build the wall, he labors to cast down the stones;Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.” (Luke 18:6, 7.) GOD’S seasons are not at your beck. If the first strokeRead More …
The Day of the Lord
The Day of the Lord For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.—1 Thessalonians 5:2 In the Scriptures, the exhortation to prepare for the day of the Lord is usually given to God’s people, rather than toRead More …
Daily Help
“I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.“—Isaiah 45:19. God has clearly revealed that He will hear the prayer of those who call upon him, and that declaration cannot be contravened. He was so firmly, so truthfully, so righteously spoken, that there can be noRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb… and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev. 12:11.) WHEN James and John came to Christ with their mother, asking Him to give them the best place in the kingdom, He did not refuse their request, but told themRead More …
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