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Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. 2:10. Let us ask Him to work in us to will those good works, so that our will, without being impaired in its free operation, may be permeated and moulded by His will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without displacing it.Read More …
Daily Help
This is no unusual occurrence; it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labor leaving half their hearts behind them. God does not give harvests toRead More …
Clean Hands; a Pure Heart
Clean Hands; a Pure Heart Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who may stand in His holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart.—Psalm 24:3–4a God has rigid requirements for those who want to enjoy intimate fellowship with Him. There is no easy accessRead More …
Daily Help
Though the host that feeds at Jehovah’s table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat. Think how much grace one saint requires; so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads his table,Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“Quit you like men, be strong.” (1 Cor. 16:13.) DO not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall beRead More …
Asking for Mountains
Asking for Mountains “Now give me this hill country the Lord promised [me] on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities. Perhaps the Lord will be with me and I will drive them out as the Lord promised.”—Joshua 14:12 Caleb’sRead More …
Daily Help
Doubtless the reader has been tried with the temptation to rely upon things which are seen, instead of resting alone upon the invisible God. Christians often look to man for help and counsel, and mar the noble simplicity of their reliance upon their God. Does this portion meet the eyeRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“I will make all my mountains a way.” (Isa. 49:11.) GOD will make obstacles serve His purpose. We all have mountains in our lives. There are people and things that threaten to bar our progress in the Divine life. Those heavy claims, that uncongenial occupation, that thorn in the flesh,Read More …
Delivered into Your Hand
Delivered into Your Hand The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have handed them over to you. Not one of them will be able to stand against you.”—Joshua 10:8 No greater confidence will ever come to you or to any other Christian than theRead More …
Daily Help
Communion with Christ is a certain cur for every ill. Whether it be the wormwood of woe, or the cloying surfeit of earthly delight, close fellowship with the Lord Jesus will take bitterness from the one, and satiety from the other. Live near to Jesus, Christian, and it is matterRead More …
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