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Morning & Evening
If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God’s covenant? Will not the distresses of life…
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J. Oswald Sanders Should Christians Fast? When you fast (Matt 6:17) Prayer and fasting are linked together both in the Scriptures and in the life-patterns of many saints of God. But fasting, in the sense in which the New Testament uses the word, has gone out of fashion. “Fasting of the mind,” or “fasting of…
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HOW CAN I HELP BUT LOVE HIM?
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Elton M. Roth, 1891–1951 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again. (2…
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Morning & Evening
And who comforteth like him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. He is drinking gall and wormwood, and comfort…
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J. Oswald Sanders World Rulers Need Prayer Prayers … for … all who are in authority (1 Tim 2:1-2) Prayer for world rulers is enjoined on the praying Christian as a primary responsibility: when counseling his young protege Timothy, Paul set before him the priorities he should observe. First of all, then, [and here it…
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J. Oswald Sanders Power in United Prayer With one accord (Acts 4:24) “No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer — Christians persistently praying for revival.”1 Such is the dictum of J. Edwin Orr, one of the world’s authorities on the subject of revival, and it is a lesson…
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WHY SHOULD HE LOVE ME SO?
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Robert Harkness, 1880–1961 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) In the deepest sense, love is a prerequisite of the whole Christian faith. It begins with God since…
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Morning & Evening
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. You have found this true in your own personal experience. God has given you many an unsolicited favour, but still great prayer has always been the prelude…
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J. Oswald Sanders Prayer Takes Time Redeeming the time (Eph 5:16, KJV) We move on to a lesson that is difficult to master, but which greatly influences the potency of our prayers. Alexander Whyte said, I am as certain as I am standing here that the secret of much mischief to our souls, and to…
