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Morning & Evening
As God’s creatures, we are all debtors to him: to obey him with all our body, and soul, and strength. Having broken his commandments, as we all have, we are debtors to his justice, and we owe to him a vast amount which we are not able to pay. But of the Christian it can…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 9 An obedience discovered itself in John Fletcher, which I wish I could describe or imitate. It produced in him a mind ready to embrace every cross with alacrity and pleasure. He had a singular love for the lambs of the flock and applied himself with the greatest diligence to their instruction…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 8 General Charles James Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, was a truly Christian soldier. Shut up in the Sudanese town, he gallantly held out for one year, but finally was overcome and slain. On his memorial in Westminster Abbey are these words: “He gave his money to the poor, his sympathy to…
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JESUS, THOU JOY OF LOVING HEARTS
Amazing Grace Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091–1153Translated by Ray Palmer, 1808–1887 I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. (John 15:11) This song is another of the fine hymn texts that originated during the Middle Ages. It is thought to have been…
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Morning & Evening
This is the voice of unalterable truth. In none of the Jewish ceremonies were sins, even typically, removed without blood-shedding. In no case, by no means can sin be pardoned without atonement. It is clear, then, that there is no hope for me out of Christ; for there is no other blood-shedding which is worth…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 7 Two thirds of the praying we do is for that which would give us the greatest possible pleasure to receive. It is a sort of spiritual self-indulgence in which we engage and, as a consequence, is the exact opposite of self-discipline. God knows all this and keeps His children asking. In…
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Morning & Evening
The time when Christians begin to sing in the ways of the Lord is when they first lose their burden at the foot of the Cross. Not even the songs of the angels seem so sweet as the first song of rapture which gushes from the inmost soul of the forgiven child of God. You…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 6 Prayer That Is Persistent How glibly we talk of praying without ceasing! Yet, we are quite ready to quit if our prayer remains unanswered but one week or month! We assume that by a stroke of His arm or an action of His will, God will give us what we ask.…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 5 Prayer and Enthusiasm St. Teresa rose off her deathbed to finish her work. She inspected, with all her quickness of eye and love of order, the whole house where she had been carried to die. She saw everything put in its proper place and everyone answering to their proper order. After…
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