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Returning to Your Failure
Returning to Your Failure “Master,” Simon replied, “we’ve worked hard all night long and caught nothing! But at Your word, I’ll let down the nets.”—Luke 5:5 No one knows how to help you in your times of failure as Jesus does! He will not overlook your shortcoming or simply encourageRead More …
Daily Help
Search the Scriptures.” The Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or two, butRead More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.—Colossians 4:2. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.—1 Corinthians 16:13. We kneel how weak, we rise how full of power. Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others—that we are not alwaysRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress.” (Psalm 4:1.) THIS is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral government of God. It is not a man’s thanksgiving that he has been set free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that he has beenRead More …
Not Lost in the Crowd
Not Lost in the Crowd When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, because today I must stay at your house.”—Luke 19:5 In our large world it’s easy to feel that we are nothing more than an insignificant speck inRead More …
Daily Help
Hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” Let not your prayers be all concerning your own sins, your own wants, your own imperfections, your own trials, but let them climb the starry ladder, and get up to Christ himself,Read More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.—James 1:27. Not to ease and aimless quiet Doth that inward answer tend, But to works of love and duty As our being’sRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1.) THE question often comes, “Why didn’t He help me sooner?” It is not His order. He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from it. His promise is, “IRead More …
Long Enough on the Mountain
Long Enough on the Mountain “The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb, ‘You have stayed at this mountain long enough.’”—Deuteronomy 1:6 If God allowed us to live on the “mountaintop,” we would not experience trials, but neither would we achieve any victories. The Israelites had gathered at theRead More …
Daily Help
To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.” Stoop if you would climb to heaven. Do we not say of Jesus, “He descended that He might ascend?” So must you. You must grow downwards, that youRead More …
D5 Creation