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Morning & Evening
What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and forgetfulness of God, what a full measure have we…
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INTIMATE WITH JESUS
My Utmost For His Highest Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me? John 14:9. These words are not spoken as a rebuke, nor even with surprise; Jesus is leading Philip on. The last One with whom we get intimate is Jesus. Before Pentecost the disciples knew Jesus as…
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TEACH ME TO PRAY
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Albert S. Reitz, 1879–1966 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:16) One of the most important emphases during this season of Epiphany is that of prayer, both…
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Morning & Evening
The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth the man begins to live to…
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WORSHIP
My Utmost For His Highest And he pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he builded an altar. Genesis 12:8. Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from…
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Morning & Evening
It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel—“HE careth for me.” Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel. What seems to you a crushing burden, would be…
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THE AFTERWARDS OF THE LIFE OF POWER
My Utmost For His Highest Whither I go, thou canst not follow Me now; but thou shalt follow Me afterwards. John 13:36. “And when He had spoken this, He saith unto him, Follow Me.” Three years before, Jesus had said—“Follow Me,” and Peter had followed easily, the fascination of Jesus was upon him, he did…
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HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION
Amazing Grace 1787 “K”—in Rippon’s Selection of Hymns, So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” (Hebrews 13:6). A believer’s stability for this life, as well as his confidence for eternity, rests solely on the written promises of God’s Word. The direction…
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Morning & Evening
Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, “Let there be light.” We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by it. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more…
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WHY CANNOT I FOLLOW THEE NOW?
My Utmost For His Highest Peter said unto Him, Lord, why cannot I follow Thee now? John 13:37. There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come…