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DIVINE REASONINGS OF FAITH
My Utmost For His Highest But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33. Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” We…
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THE REALM OF THE REAL
My Utmost For His Highest In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19. When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an expression of the new life, to form the mind of Christ. “Acquire your soul…
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OUT OF THE WRECK I RISE
My Utmost For His Highest Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Romans 8:35. God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says—“I will be with him in trouble.” It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man’s life, not one of them…
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CAREFUL UNREASONABLENESS
My Utmost For His Highest Behold the fowls of the air … consider the lilies of the field. Matthew 6:26, 28. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars and the moon—all these are, and what a ministration they exert. So…
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HIS ASCENSION AND OUR UNION
My Utmost For His Highest And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Luke 24:51. We have no corresponding experience to the events in Our Lord’s life after the Transfiguration. From then onwards Our Lord’s life was altogether vicarious. Up to the time of…
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THE HABIT OF WEALTH
My Utmost For His Highest Partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4. We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first habit to form is the habit of realizing the provision God has made. ‘Oh,…
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THE HABIT OF RISING TO THE OCCASION
My Utmost For His Highest That ye may know what is the hope of His calling … Eph. 1:18. Remember what you are saved for—that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh. Bend the whole energy of your powers to realize your election as a child of God; rise to the…
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MAKE A HABIT OF HAVING NO HABITS
My Utmost For His Highest For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful. 2 Peter 1:8 (R.V.). When we begin to form a habit we are conscious of it. There are times when we are conscious of becoming virtuous and patient and godly, but it is…
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YOU WON’T REACH IT ON TIPTOE
My Utmost For His Highest Add to your brotherliness … love. 2 Peter 1:7. Love is indefinite to most of us, we do not know what we mean when we talk about love. Love is the sovereign preference of one person for another, and spiritually Jesus demands that that preference be for Himself (cf. Luke…