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THE UNDEVIATING TEST
My Utmost For His Highest For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2. This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again. There…
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IN JESUS
James Procter, dates unknown The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 14:1) This song is the testimonial hymn of an avowed atheist who led others in a vain search for the true meaning of life before finding his answer in Jesus. James Proctor grew up in a Christian home and attended…
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MORNING & EVENING
Christ himself is the builder of his spiritual temple, and he has built it on the mountains of his unchangeable affection, his omnipotent grace, and his infallible truthfulness. But as it was in Solomon’s temple, so in this; the materials need making ready. There are the “Cedars of Lebanon,” but they are not framed for…
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THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
My Utmost For His Highest But ye are … a royal priesthood. 1 Peter 2:9. By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual grubbing on the inside to…
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MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE
Lidie H. Edmunds, 19th century I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day. (2 Timothy 1:12) Saving faith is much more than a commitment to a creed, church, or a doctrinal system. It must be a commitment to a…
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MORNING & EVENING
The entire person of Jesus is but as one gem, and his life is all along but one impression of the seal. He is altogether complete; not only in his several parts, but as a gracious all-glorious whole. His character is not a mass of fair colours mixed confusedly, nor a heap of precious stones…
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HAVE YOU COME TO “WHEN” YET?
My Utmost For His Highest And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Job 42:10. The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be right with God is…
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THE SOLID ROCK
Edward Mote, 1797–1874 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:11) Life with Christ is an endless hope; without Him a hopeless end.— Unknown The Bible likens our life to a house. Some homes are built to last while others crumble easily in…
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MORNING & EVENING
Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask leave before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for the text says, “I will sift the house of Israel.” Satan, like a drudge, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy…
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THE SERVICE OF PASSIONATE DEVOTION
My Utmost For His HIghest Lovest thou Me? Feed My sheep. John 21:16. Jesus did not say—Make converts to your way of thinking, but look after My sheep, see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Me. We count as service what we do in the way of Christian work; Jesus Christ calls service…