“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8. If we desire to glorify our Lord by fruitfulness, we must have certain things within us; for nothing can come out of us which is not…
Read More“Worship the Lord your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you,” Exodus 23:25. What a promise is this! To serve God is in itself a high delight. But what an added privilege to have the blessing of the Lord resting upon us in…
Read More“The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.” Deuteronomy 28:12. This refers first to the rain. The Lord will give this in its season.…
Read MoreI have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20.
Read More“One of you routs a thousand, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as he promised.” Joshua 23:10. Why count heads? One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on the other side. Sometimes our helpers may be too many for God to work with them, as was the…
Read More“For he will deliver the needy who cry out, the afflicted who have no one to help.” Psalm 72:12. The needy cries; what else can he do? His cry is heard of God; what else need he do? Let the needy reader take to crying at once, for this will be his wisdom. Do not…
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