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LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVE EXCELLING
Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:9) We must never underestimate the power of love in our human relationships—whether marriages, family, business associations, or friendships. The divine love of…
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Morning & Evening
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day—how he hath borne with thine ill manners—how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh-pots…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 12 Prayer and God’s Promises In the Scriptures, we constantly encounter such words as “field,” “seed,” “sower,” “reaper,” “seedtime,” “harvest.” Employing such metaphors interprets a fact of nature by a parable of grace. The field is the world and the good seed is the Word of God. Whether the Word be spoken…
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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…
