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A Heart of Flesh
A Heart of Flesh I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.—Ezekiel 36:26 From our hearts comes our response to God. Apart from the cleansing work of the Holy Spirit,Read More …
Daily Help
The love which the early Christians felt towards the Lord was not a quiet emotion which they hid within themselves in the secret chamber of their souls, and which they only spake of when they met on the first day of the week, and sang hymns in honor of ChristRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” (Mark 8:34.) THE cross which my Lord bids me take up and carry may assume different shapes. I may have to content myself with a lowly and narrow sphere, when I feel thatRead More …
Life and Light
Life and Light Life was in Him, and that life was the light of men.—John 1:4 When Jesus came to a world that was in bondage to darkness and dead in its sin, He came as light and life. His light dispelled sin’s darkness wherever He went, for the forcesRead More …
Daily Help
How blessed to feel assured that the Lord is with us in all our ways, and condescends to go down into our humiliations and banishments with us! Even beyond the ocean our Father’s love beams like the sun in its strength. We cannot hesitate to go where Jehovah promises hisRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Come up in the morning…. and present thyself unto me in the top of the mount.” (Exod. 34:2.) HE morning is the time fixed for my meeting the Lord. The very word morning is as a cluster of rich grapes. Let us crush them, and drink the sacred wine. InRead More …
Prayer Is Preparation
Prayer Is Preparation When the day of Pentecost had arrived, they were all together in one place.—Acts 2:1 Prayer does not give you spiritual power. Prayer aligns your life with God so that He chooses to demonstrate His power through you. The purpose of prayer is not to convince GodRead More …
Daily Help
He draws us to closer communion with himself. We have been sitting on the doorstep of God’s house, and he bids us advance into the banqueting hall and sup with him, but we decline the honor. There are secret rooms not yet opened to us; Jesus invites us to enterRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?” (S. of Sol. 8:5.) SOME one gained a good lesson from a Southern prayer meeting. A colored brother asked the Lord for various blessings—as you and I do, and thanked the Lord for many already received—as youRead More …
God’s Design
God’s Design For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.—Romans 8:29–30Read More …
D5 Creation