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Choose to Rejoice
Choose to Rejoice About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.—Acts 16:25 Your joy as a Christian should not depend on your circumstances. Joy comes from God, and therefore it cannot be affected by what is outside of you.Read More …
Daily Help
All they that heard it wondered at those things.” We must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God. It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory, thoughRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Hab. 2:3.) IN the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord’s treasure houses, and among many other wonders there revealed toRead More …
What More Could Have Been Done?
What More Could Have Been Done? What more could I have done for My vineyard than I did? Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes, did it yield worthless grapes?—Isaiah 5:4 The prophet Isaiah told the story of a man with a vineyard on a fertile hill. TheRead More …
Daily Help
Could faith believe in a Being more answerable to all our needs, more helpful to our noblest longings? Allied to Jesus, we confidently aspire to such likeness to our Creator as it is possible for a creature to bear. Nor is the advantage less in the other direction, for hereRead More …
Strongholds
Strongholds “You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done? Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you.Read More …
Daily Help
Friendship, however, though very pleasing and exceedingly blessed, has been the cause of the greatest misery to men when it has been unworthy and unfaithful; for just in proportion as a good friend is sweet, a false friend is full of bitterness. “A faithless friend is sharper than an adder’sRead More …
Integrity Upheld
Integrity Upheld You supported me because of my integrity and set me in Your presence forever.—Psalm 41:12 Joseph was a righteous man who had cultivated a reputation for godliness in his community. Then word spread across the community that Mary, the woman to whom he was engaged, was expecting aRead More …
Daily Help
“Return unto the Lord thy God.” Where we first found salvation we shall find it again. At the foot of Christ’s cross, confessing sin. Moreover, the Lord will have us obey His voice according to all that He has commanded us, and we must do this with all our heartRead More …
Slaves of Righteousness
Slaves of Righteousness And having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.—Romans 6:18 Before you were a Christian you were a slave, in bondage to sin. Even when you did not want to sin, you were unable to do otherwise (Rom. 7:15–24). When God saved you, He freedRead More …
D5 Creation