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Sympathy with God
Sympathy with God When he heard these words, Ananias dropped dead, and a great fear came on all who heard.—Acts 5:5 When God brings judgment upon someone, our natural inclination is often sympathy toward the one being disciplined. Yet when God acts in judgment, our sympathies ought always to lieRead More …
It’s Not Difficult!
It’s Not Difficult! “This command that I give you today is certainly not too difficult or beyond your reach.”—Deuteronomy 30:11 The Christian life is not difficult. The same Christ who lived a perfect, obedient, and sinless life stands prepared to live it again through you (Gal. 2:20). God’s will isRead More …
Daily Help
How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of his people’s interests which he does not consider, and there is nothing which concerns their welfare which is not important to him. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in hisRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“In me… peace.” (John 16:33.) THERE is a vast difference between happiness and blessedness. Paul had imprisonments and pains, sacrifice and suffering up to the very limit; but in the midst of it all, he was blessed. All the beatitudes came into his heart and life in the midst ofRead More …
Confession
Confession Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The intense prayer of the righteous is very powerful.—James 5:16 Confession is God’s provision to clear obstacles that hinder our relationships with God and with others. Confession is not just forRead More …
Daily Help
And he is full of truth. True have his promises been; not one has failed. I want none beside him. In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death; in poverty Christ is my riches; in sickness he makes my bed; in darknessRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“I have found an atonement.” (Job 33:24, margin.) DIVINE healing is just divine life. It is the headship of Christ over the body. It is the life of Christ in the frame. It is the union of our members with the very body of Christ and the inflowing life ofRead More …
Casting Your Cares
Casting Your Cares . . . casting all your care upon Him, because He cares about you.—1 Peter 5:7 As you’ve no doubt discovered, becoming a Christian does not make your problems go away. But it does give you an Advocate to whom you can take every concern. The Christians Peter addressed wereRead More …
Daily Help
Believer, do you remember that rapturous day when you first realized pardon through Jesus the sin-bearer? Can you not make glad confession, and say, “My soul recalls her day of deliverance with delight. Laden with guilt and full of fears, I saw my Saviour as my Substitute, and I laidRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.” (Acts 16:7.) WHAT a strange prohibition! These men were going into Bithynia just to do Christ’s work, and the door is shut against them by Christ’s own Spirit. I, too, have experiencedRead More …
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