Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed. Deuteronomy 28:5. Obedience brings a blessing on all the provisions which our industry earns for us. That which comes in and goes out at once, like fruit in the basket which is for immediate use, shall be blest; and that which is laid by with us for…
Read MoreHe upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free, Psalm 146:7. He has done it. Remember Joseph, Israel in Egypt, Manasseh, Jeremiah, Peter, and many others. He can do it still. He breaks the bars of brass with a word and snaps the fetters of iron with a look. He is doing…
Read MoreIn you the fatherless find compassion. Hosea 14:3. This is an excellent reason for casting away all other confidences and relying upon the Lord alone. When a child is left without its natural protector, our God steps in and becomes his guardian: so also when a man has lost every object of dependence, he may cast himself…
Read MoreThe Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous. Proverbs 3:33. He fears the Lord, and therefore he comes under the divine protection even as to the roof which covers himself and his family. His home is an abode of love, a school of holy training, and a place of…
Read MoreBecause you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. Psalm 16:10. This word has its proper fulfillment in the Lord Jesus; but it applies also, with a variation, to all who are in Him. Our soul shall not be left in the separate state, and our body,…
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