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  • TEMPORAL SUFFERINGS SHOULD BE BORNE PATIENTLY, AFTER THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST MY CHILD, I came down from heaven for your salvation and took upon Myself your miseries, not out of necessity but out of love, that you might learn to be patient and bear the sufferings of this life without repining. From the moment of My birth to My…

  • OUR SUFFICIENCY IS OF GOD

    Power Through Prayer But above all he excelled in prayer. The inwardness and weight of his spirit, the reverence and solemnity of his address and behavior, and the fewness and fullness of his words have often struck even strangers with admiration as they used to reach others with consolation. The most awful, living, reverend frame…

  • AMERICA, HAPPY THANKSGIVING

    How to recount the bountiful blessings our Father God has gifted us this year? Let’s give it a try… Abba, Praise you for the life within my body as I tread this sod pressing onward and focusing my eyes upward to your Kingdom for which I yearn; Thankful for your watchful eye. Praise you for…

  • NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD

    Martin Rinkart, 1586–1649English Translation—Catherine Winkworth, 1827–1878 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (Romans 8:35, 37) From some of the severest human sufferings imaginable…

  • DO YOU CONTINUE TO GO WITH JESUS?

    My Utmost For His Highest Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations. Luke 22:28. It is true that Jesus Christ is with us in our temptations, but are we going with Him in His temptations? Many of us cease to go with Jesus from the moment we have an experience of…

  • PRAYER CHOICE AND PRAYER CONFLICT

    My Utmost For His Highest When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and pray to thy Father which is in secret. Matthew 6:6. Jesus did not say—‘Dream about thy Father in secret,’ but ‘pray to thy Father in secret.’ Prayer is an effort of will. After we have entered our secret place and have shut…

  • TAKE TIME TO BE HOLY

    William D. Longstaff, 1822–1894 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:15, 16) The valuable guidelines given in this hymn for living a holy life are just as pertinent for believers today as they…

  • IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

    Horatio G. Spafford, 1828–1888 God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1) Inner peace through an implicit trust in the love of God is the real evidence of a mature Christian faith. Only with this kind of confidence in his heavenly Father could Horatio Spafford experience such heart-rending tragedies…

  • O HAPPY DAY

    Philip Doddridge, 1702–1751 I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. (Isaiah 61:10) It is always encouraging to share in a testimonial service by recalling with other believers the time we responded to God’s…