26 Nov 2015

Heavenly Alchemy

“Your sorrow shall be turned into joy.” John 16:20. Their particular sorrow was the death and absence of their Lord, and it was turned into joy when He rose from the dead and showed Himself in their midst. All the sorrows of saints shall be thus transmuted, even the worst of them, which look as…

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25 Nov 2015

Ruth

So Boaz said to Ruth, “My daughter, listen to me. Don’t go and glean in another field and don’t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a…

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25 Nov 2015

Mountains Turned to Plains

“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”. Zechariah 4:7. At this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through…

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24 Nov 2015

Hosea 1

Family of Hosea (1-9) and Restoration of Israel (10 & 11) V. 2:…take yourself a wife of harlotry… There are 3 ways of interpretation. 1. It happened in a vision as an allegory showing God’s relationship with Israel, 2. Gomer fell into an immoral life after Hosea married her, 3. Hosea knew that Gomer was…

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24 Nov 2015

Ruth

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.” Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was…

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24 Nov 2015

Pardon and Forgiveness

“He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;” Psalm 103:9. He will chide sometimes, or He would not be a wise Father for such poor, erring children as we are. His chiding is very painful to those who are true, because they feel how sadly they deserve it and how wrong…

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