“Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return.” Ecclesiastes 11:1. We must not expect to see an immediate reward for all the good we do; nor must we always confine our efforts to places and persons which seem likely to yield us a recompense for our labors. The Egyptian…
Read More“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“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 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“Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.” Genesis 49:19. Some of us have been like the tribe of Gad. Our adversaries for a while were too many for us; they came upon us like a troop. Yes, and for the moment they overcame us; and they exulted greatly because…
Read More“And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers.” Deuteronomy 13:17. Israel must conquer idolatrous cities and destroy all the spoil, regarding…
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