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Arm Yourself Against Temptation
| added | February 9, 2012 |
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| scripture | Luke 11:4 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
The things we are taught to seek or avoid in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. We should with sincerity avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us. We are not to enter the jungle in search of the lion. We might pay dearly for such presumption. This lion may cross our path or leap upon us from the jungle, but we have nothing to do with hunting him. He that meets with him, even though he wins the day, will find it ...
Is Sin Subdued in You?
| added | February 8, 2012 |
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| scripture | Matthew 1:21 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
Many people, if they are asked what they understand by salvation, will reply, "Being saved from hell and taken to heaven." This is one result of salvation, but it is not one tenth of what is contained in that blessing. It is true our Lord Jesus Christ does redeem all His people from the wrath to come; He saves them from the fearful condemnation that their sins had brought upon them; but His triumph is far more complete than this. He saves His people "from their sins"--a complete deliverance from our worst foes. Where Christ works a saving work, He ...
"Come Up Here"
| added | February 7, 2012 |
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| scripture | Revelation 11:12 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
Without considering these words in their prophetic connection, let us regard them as the invitation of our great Forerunner to His sanctified people. In due time there shall be heard "a loud voice from heaven" to every believer, saying, "Come up here." This should be to the saints the subject of joyful anticipation. Instead of dreading the time when we will leave this world to go to the Father, we should be longing for the hour of our emancipation. Our song should be--My heart is with Him on His throne, And ill can brook delay; Each moment listening for the ...
Cheerfully Pray for Another
| added | February 6, 2012 |
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| scripture | James 5:16 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
Be encouraged to cheerfully offer intercessory prayer, by remembering that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears. The prayer of Christ is of this character. In all the incense that our Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not a single grain for Himself. His intercession must be the most acceptable of all supplications--and the more our prayer like Christ's, the sweeter it will be. Thus while petitions for ourselves will be accepted, our pleadings for others, having in them more of the fruits of the Spirit--more love, more faith, more brotherly kindness--will be, through ...
Constantly Communicating
| added | February 5, 2012 |
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| scripture | Matthew 11:25 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
This is a pointed way in which to begin a verse--"At that time Jesus declared." If you look at the context you will realize that no one had asked Him a question and that He was not in conversation with any human being. Yet it is written, "Jesus declared, I thank you, Father." When a man answers, he answers a person who has been speaking to him. Who, then, had been speaking to Christ? His Father. Yet there is no record of it; and this should teach us that Jesus had constant fellowship with His Father, and that God spoke ...
The City of Refuge
| added | February 4, 2012 |
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| scripture | Joshua 20:3 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
It is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged that any man might reach one of them within half a day at the most. In the same way the word of our salvation is near to us; Jesus is a present Savior, and the way to Him is short. It is but a simple renunciation of our own merit and a laying hold of Jesus to be our all in all. With regard to the roads to the city of refuge, we are told that they were strictly preserved, every river was bridged, and ...
Our Desire for Christ's Fellowship
| added | February 3, 2012 |
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| scripture | Song of Songs 1:7 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
These words may be taken as expressions of the believer's desire for Christ's fellowship and his longing for present communion with Him. Where do You feed Your flock? In Your house? I will go, if I may find You there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Your ordinances? Then I will pursue them with all my heart. Tell me where this happens, for wherever You stand as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep; for no one but Yourself can supply my need. I ...
God's Eternal Plans
| added | February 2, 2012 |
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| scripture | 1 Chronicles 4:22 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
But not so ancient as those precious things that are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, repeating them as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which He elected us unto eternal life, before creation, is a matter of vast antiquity, since no date can be conceived for it by the mind of man. We were chosen from before the foundations of the world. Everlasting love went with the choice, for it was not a bare act of divine will by which we were set apart, but the divine affections ...
Speak of Jesus' Wonderful Love
| added | February 1, 2012 |
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| scripture | 2 Samuel 1:26 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
Come, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things that we have tasted and handled--of the love of Christ. Your love to me, O Jesus, was wonderful when I was a stranger wandering far from You, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. Your love restrained me from committing the sin that is unto death and withheld me from self-destruction. Your love held back the axe when Justice said, "Cut it down! Why ...
The Pace of Your Spiritual Journey
| added | January 31, 2012 |
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| scripture | 2 Samuel 18:23 |
| type | Daily Devotional |
Running is not everything. There is much in the way that we select: A swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveler upon level ground. How is it with my spiritual journey? Am I laboring up the hill of my own works and down into the ravines of my own humiliations and resolutions, or do I run by the plain way of "Believe and live"?How blessed is it to wait upon the Lord by faith! The soul runs without weariness and walks without fainting in the way of believing. Christ Jesus is the ...
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