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Yes – But . . . !

Thursday May 30, 2024 Luke 9:61 “I will follow you, Lord, but . . .” Supposing God tells you to do something which is an enormous test to your common sense, what are you going to do? Hang back? If … Continue reading

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1 Corinthians 6:13

Wednesday May 29, 2024 1 Corinthians 6:13 The body is . . . for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now, just as it was Christ Himself who justified us, and Christ Himself who was made unto us … Continue reading

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Mature Faith – Illustrated by Abraham

Tuesday May 28, 2024 Genesis 22:2 He [God] said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of … Continue reading

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I Change Not

Monday May 27, 2024 Malachi 3:6 “For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.” To announce that you’re going to speak on the immutability of God is almost like putting up a … Continue reading

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Who Made This Mess?

Saturday May 25, 2024 2 Timothy 3:15 From childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every inch of the kitchen floor was covered with … Continue reading

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John 15:2

Friday May 24, 2024 John 15:2 “Every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” The life of Jesus was full of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, meekness. And it is His will that the world … Continue reading

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Careful Infidelity

Thursday May 23, 2024 Matthew 6:25 “Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on.” Jesus sums up commonsense carefulness in a disciple as … Continue reading

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1 Timothy 6:12

Wednesday May 22, 2024 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Oh, beloved, how must God feel about us after He has given us His heart’s blood, put so many advantages in our way, expended upon us … Continue reading

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Ephraim Bemoaning Himself

Tuesday May 21, 2024 Jeremiah 31:18 I have heard Ephraim grieving, “You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.” Broken prayers … Continue reading

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There You Have God

Monday May 20, 2024 Psalm 90:1-2 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Shake … Continue reading

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Profiting From Perseverance

Saturday May 18, 2024 Romans 5:3-4 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. Most people are familiar with this famous quote from a speech by … Continue reading

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Luke 11:1

Friday May 17, 2024 Luke 11:1 “Lord, teach us to pray.” There is probably not a praying soul who has not prayed thus. But most of us do not really know what we are praying for when we ask the … Continue reading

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The Habit of Wealth

Thursday May 16, 2024 2 Peter 1:4 Partakers of the divine nature. We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to ‘manipulate’ the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first … Continue reading

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Philippians 3:14

Wednesday May 15, 2024 Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal. We have thought much about what we have received. Let us think of the things we have not received, of some of the vessels that have not yet … Continue reading

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Prosperity Under Persecution

Tuesday May 14, 2024 Exodus 1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. Always take revenge on Satan if he defeats you, by trying to do ten times more good than … Continue reading

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God Doesn’t Need Us

Monday May 13, 2024 Habakkuk 1:13 [God isn’t] served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking … Continue reading

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A City Big Enough

Saturday May 11, 2024 Revelation 21:16 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal. Picture this: a city shaped … Continue reading

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Isaiah 57:15

Friday May 10, 2024 Isaiah 57:15 “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit.” The Lord dwells with those who are of a humble and contrite heart. He … Continue reading

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Grasp Without Reach

Thursday May 9, 2024 Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint. There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has no moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give … Continue reading

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John 12:24

Wednesday May 8, 2024 John 12:24 Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies. Death and resurrection are the central ideas of nature and Christianity. We see them in the transformation of the chrysalis, in the buried … Continue reading

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