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MORNING & EVENING
The Lord Jesus gives special revelations of himself to his people. Even if Scripture did not declare this, there are many of the children of God who could testify the truth of it from their own experience. They have had manifestations of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in a peculiar manner, such as no…
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YOU WON’T REACH IT ON TIPTOE
My Utmost For His Highest Add to your brotherliness … love. 2 Peter 1:7. Love is indefinite to most of us, we do not know what we mean when we talk about love. Love is the sovereign preference of one person for another, and spiritually Jesus demands that that preference be for Himself (cf. Luke…
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CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS
Amazing Grace Matthew Bridges, 1800–1894 and Godfrey Thring, 1823–1903 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on His head are many crowns … He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is the Word of God. (Revelation 19:12, 13) Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity and the exaltation of humanity.— Phillips…
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MORNING & EVENING
It is well there is One who is ever the same, and who is ever with us. It is well there is one stable rock amidst the billows of the sea of life. O my soul, set not thine affections upon rusting, moth-eaten, decaying treasures, but set thine heart upon him who abides for ever…
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TAKE THE INITIATIVE
My Utmost For His Highest Add to your faith virtue … (“Furnish your faith with resolution.”) (MOFFATT) 2 Peter 1:5. “Add” means there is something we have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save…
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LOOK YE SAINTS THE SIGHT IS GLORIOUS
Amazing Grace Thomas Kelly, 1769–1854 … Great and marvelous are Your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are Your ways, King of the ages. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed. (Revelation 15:3, 4) Ascension Day, when we commemorate the translation of our Lord to heaven,…
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MORNING & EVENING
The whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that “Christ is risen from the dead;” for, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins.” The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in his resurrection, since he was “Declared to…
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THE PATIENCE OF FAITH
My Utmost For His Highest Because thou hast kept the word of My patience. Rev. 3:10. Patience is more than endurance. A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains,…
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HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW
Amazing Grace Civilla D. Martin, 1869–1948 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father in heaven. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than sparrows. (Matthew…
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MORNING & EVENING
Years are short to the happy and healthy; but thirty-eight years of disease must have dragged a very weary length along the life of the poor impotent man. When Jesus, therefore, healed him by a word, while he lay at the pool of Bethesda, he was delightfully sensible of a change. Even so the sinner…