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Daily Help

“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, by our God never ceases to shineRead More …

Streams in the Desert

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ… and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:4-6.) THIS is ourRead More …

History

History Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were dug.—Isaiah 51:1 As Christians, we ought never to overlook our heritage. An awareness of our Christian heritage helps us toRead More …

Daily Help

I give unto my sheep,” saith he, “eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” What sayest thou to this, O trembling feeble mind? Is not this a precious mercy, that coming to Christ, thou dost not come to one whoRead More …

Streams in the Desert

“All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” (Psalm 42:7.)   They are HIS billows, whether they go o’er us, Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam; Or smooth and sparkling, spread a path before us, And to our haven bear us safely home.   They areRead More …

Are You Coming to the Celebration?

Are You Coming to the Celebration? But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.—Luke 15:29 God is concerned with bringing peopleRead More …

Daily Help

Of the Saviour, and only of the Saviour, is it true in the fullest, broadest, and most unqualified sense. “He went about doing good. From this description it is evident that He did good personally. The evangelists constantly tell us that He touched the leper with His own finger, thatRead More …

Streams in the Desert

“He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone.” (Matt. 14:23.) THE man Christ Jesus felt the need of perfect solitude—Himself alone, entirely by Himself? alone with Himself. We know how much intercourse with men draws us away from ourselves andRead More …

Revival

Revival Lord, I have heard the report about You; Lord, I stand in awe of Your deeds. Revive [Your work] in these years; make [it] known in these years. In [Your] wrath remember mercy!—Habakkuk 3:2 Only God can restore life to something that has died. If you find that yourRead More …

Daily Help

“And the evening and the morning were the first day.“Genesis 1:5. The evening was ‘darkness” and the morning was “light,” and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is notRead More …