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Open Doors and Adversaries
Open Doors and Adversaries . . . because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me—yet many oppose me.—1 Corinthians 16:9 Open doors of service may also let in adversaries. Paul had many of both. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians from Ephesus, he was trying to determineRead More …
Daily Help
Behold the epitaph of all those blessed saints who fell asleep before the coming of our Lord! It matters nothing how else they died, this one point, in which they all agree, is the most worthy of record, “they all died in faith.” In faith they lived—it was their comfort,Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“And he took him aside from the multitude.” (Mark 7:33.) PAUL not only stood the tests in Christian activity, but in the solitude of captivity. You may stand the strain of the most intense labor, coupled with severe suffering, and yet break down utterly when laid aside from all religiousRead More …
Humble Yourself
Humble Yourself “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”—Luke 14:11 There are two ways to attain high esteem. One is the world’s method: Take every opportunity to promote yourself before others; seize occasions for recognition and manipulate your way intoRead More …
Daily Help
In all our wanderings the watchful glance of the Eternal Watcher is evermore fixed upon us—we never roam beyond the Shepherd’s eye. In our sorrows he observes us incessantly, and not a pang escapes him; in our toils he marks all our weariness, and writes in his book all theRead More …
Redeeming the Time
Redeeming the Time Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise— making the most of the time, because the days are evil.—Ephesians 5:15–16 These days we are bombarded with opportunities that entice us to invest our time and energy. Each day the voices ofRead More …
Abundant Life
Abundant Life A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance.—John 10:10 Jesus warns us to be on guard for thieves who will try to rob us of what God has for us. JesusRead More …
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Prayer sometimes tarrieth like a petitioner at the gate, until the King cometh forth to fill her bosom with the blessings which she seeketh. The Lord, when he hath given great faith, has been known to try it by long delayings. He has suffered his servants’ voices to echo inRead More …
Daily Help
It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God’s hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God. It is well, also to take both sorrow and sin to the same place.Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“I have all, and abound.” (Phil. 4:18.) IN one of my garden books there is a chapter with a very interesting heading, “Flowers that Grow in the Gloom.” It deals with those patches in a garden which never catch the sunlight. And my guide tells me the sort of flowersRead More …
D5 Creation