The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you. Deuteronomy 28:8. If we obey the Lord our God He will bless that which He gives us. Riches are no curse when blessed of the Lord. When men have more…
Read MoreThe Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14. Precious promise! Lord, enable me to appropriate it as all my own. We must go at certain times from our abode, for here we have no continuing city. It often happens that when we feel most at home in a place, we…
Read More“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…
Read More“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 it, or round it.…
Read MoreHe 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 it is…
Read MoreThe Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. Deuteronomy 7:22. We are not to expect to win victories for the Lord Jesus by a single blow. Evil principles and practices die hard. In some…
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