You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away 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…
Read MoreThe Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. Deuteronomy 28:12. This refers first to the rain. The Lord will give this…
Read MoreOne 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 MoreThough I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; with your right hand you save me. Psalm 138:7. Wretched walking in the midst of trouble. Nay, blessed walking, since there is a special promise for it. Give me a promise, and…
Read More“If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth.” Ecclesiastes 11:3. Why, then, do we dread the clouds which now darken our sky? True, for a while they hide the sun, but the sun is not quenched; He will shine out again before long. Meanwhile those black clouds are filled with…
Read MoreI will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. Isaiah 45:2. This was for Cyrus; but it is evermore the heritage of all the Lord’s own spiritual servants. Only let us go forward by faith, and our way will be cleared…
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