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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Morning & Evening... John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 40:5 The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. We anticipate the happy day when the whole world shall be converted to Christ; when the gods of the heathen shall be cast to

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 41:1 Let the people renew their strength. All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. "Thou renewest the face of the year," was the Psalmist's utterance. Even the trees, whi

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Song of Solomon 1:4 We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will be glad and rejoice in Thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy,

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually. "The Lord shall guide thee." Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go bef

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Genesis 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him. This morning our desires went forth for growth in our acquaintance with the Lord Jesus; it may be well to-night to consider a kindred topic, namely, our

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Psalm 74:16 The night also is Thine. Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Hosea 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord. Believer, here is a sorrowful truth! Thou art the beloved of the Lord, redeemed by blood, called by grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved,

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Acts 16:14 Whose heart the Lord opened. In Lydia's conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at t

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 54:12 I will make thy windows of agates. The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by heavenly power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must not be dark, for the Isra

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Psalm 68:10 Thou, O God, hast prepared of Thy goodness for the poor. All God's gifts are prepared gifts laid up in store for wants foreseen. He anticipates our needs; and out of the fulness which He has treasured up

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From: alfredpreachingthewordof...@juno.com daily devotional Evening... Romans 8:23 Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. This groaning is universal among the saints: to a greater or less extent we all feel it. It is not

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 33:16 His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure. Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil His promise? Shall the munitions of rock be c

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Zechariah 4:10 They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. Small things marked the beginning of the work in the hand of Zerubbabel, but none might despise it, for the Lord had raised up one who would perse

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. Conscious of their own natural defenselessness, the conies resort to burrows in the rocks, and are secure from their enemies. My heart, be willi

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Proverbs 24:33, 34: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. The worst of sluggards only ask for a little slumber; th

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. There is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed,

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Hebrews 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. There is a strange power about the very name of blood, and the sight of it is always affecting. A kind heart cannot bear to see a sparrow bleed,

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Ecclesiastes 1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. Everything sublunary is on the move, time knows nothing of rest. The solid earth is a rol

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... 2 Chronicles 30:27 Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. Prayer is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight. When you cannot use your sword you may take to the weapon of all-

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... John 14:26 The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. This age is peculiarly the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, in which Jesus cheers us, not by His personal presence, as He shall do by-and-by, but by the indwelling and constant abidin

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 36:5 Now on whom dost thou trust? Reader, this is an important question. Listen to the Christian's answer, and see if it is yours. "On whom dost thou trust?" "I trust," says the Christian, "in a triune God. I trust the Father, b

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me? This was a strange question for Job to ask of the Lord. He felt himself to be too insignificant to be so strictly watched and chastened, and he hoped that he was not

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 84:11 He will give grace and glory. Bounteous is Jehovah in His nature; to give is His delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His elect because He wills

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen. When in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp ed

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Matthew 15:23 But He answered her not a word. Genuine seekers who as yet have not obtained the blessing, may take comfort from the story before us. The Saviour did not at once bestow the blessing, even though the woman had great faith

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... 1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed. Devout souls delight to look upon those mercies which they have obtained in answer to supplication, for they can see God's especial love in them. When we can name our blessings Samuel, that is, "a

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the evening withhold not thy hand. In the evening of the day opportunities are plentiful: men return from their labour, and the zealous soul-winner finds time to tell abroad the love of Jesus. Have I no evening wo

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotinal Evening... Psalm 148:14 A people near unto him. The dispensation of the old covenant was that of distance. When God appeared even to His servant Moses, He said, "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet"; and when He manifested H

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Numbers 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. Nazarites had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 101:1 I will sing of mercy and judgment. Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she I cries, "I wi

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Habakkuk 1:8 Evening wolves. While preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to give a page to it. The evening wolf, infuri

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Ephesians 1:19, 20: The exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead. In the resurrection of Christ, as in our salva

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Job 38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it cannot pass. Universal knowledge i

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Leviticus 19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have. Weights, and scales, and measures were to be all according to the standard of justice. Surely no Christian man will need to be reminded of this

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Isaiah 54:1 Sing, O barren. Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are "plants of His own right hand planting," yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is co

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you an heart of flesh. A heart of flesh is known by its tenderness concerning sin. To have indulged a foul imagination, or to have allowed a wild desire to tarry even for a moment, is quite enough to mak

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Psalm 31:4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for Thou art my strength. Our spiritual foes are of the serpent's brood, a and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... John 11:4 This sickness is not unto death. From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an "unto" within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might pass through dea

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... John 6:37 All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me. This declaration involves the doctrine of election: there are some whom the Father gave to Christ. It involves the doctrine of effectual calling: these who are given must and

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Acts 10:38 Who went about doing good. Few words, but yet an exquisite miniature of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are not many touches, but they are the strokes of a master's pencil. Of the Saviour and only of the Saviour is it true in

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Morning ... Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Psalm 72:19 Let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen, and Amen. This is a large petition. To intercede for a whole city needs a stretch of faith, and there are times when a prayer for one man is enough to stagger us. But how

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Mark 16:9 He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven devils. Mary of Magdala was the victim of a fearful evil. She was possessed by not one devil only, but seven. These dreadful inmates caused much pain and p

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Matthew 9:6 The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Behold one of the great Physician's mightiest arts: He has power to forgive sin! While here He lived below, before the ransom had been paid, before the blood had been li

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Genesis 9:14 The bow shall be seen in the cloud. The rainbow, the symbol of the covenant with Noah, is typical of our Lord Jesus, who is the Lord's witness to the people. When may we expect to see the token of the covenant? The rainb

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon Him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour t

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Jeremiah 2:18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? By sundry miracles, by divers mercies, by strange deliverances Jehovah had proved Himself to be worthy of Israel's trust. Yet they broke dow

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Joel 2:8 Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path. Locusts always keep their rank, and although their number is legion, they do not crowd upon each other, so as to throw their columns into confusion. This remarkab

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Genesis 1:5 And the evening and the morning were the first day. The evening was "darkness" and the morning was "light," and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Job 13:23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? Have you ever really weighed and considered how great the sin of God's people is? Think how heinous is your own transgression, and you will find that not only does a sin here and there

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... 2 Timothy 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him. We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have t

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Jeremiah 32:17 Ah Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee. At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Luke 15:18 Father, I have sinned. It is quite certain that those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not make a confession of sin, as culprits or criminals, before God the Judge, for Christ has for ever taken away all t

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... 2 Samuel 1:26 Thy love to me was wonderful. 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 which we have tasted

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me . . . where Thou feedest, where Thou makest Thy flock to rest at noon. These words express the desire of the believer after Christ, and his longing for present communion with Him. Where doest Thou feed Thy

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Ephesians 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance. When Jesus gave Himself for us, He gave us all the rights and privileges which went with Himself; so that now, although as eternal God, He has essential rights to which no cr

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Luke 2:20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. What was the subject of their praise? They praised God for what they had heard-for the good t

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. When the believer is adopted into the Lord's family, his relationship to old Adam and the law ceases at once; but then he is under a new ru

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Job 1:9 Doth Job fear God for nought? This was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion bec

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 119:37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken Thou me in Thy way. There are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all the

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Matthew 14:30 Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants. Peter neglected prayer at starting upon his venturous journey, but when he began to sink his danger made him a

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Morning... Philippians 1:21 For me to live is Christ. The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Morning... Exodus 28:38 The iniquity of the holy things. What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worsh

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light. This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord's dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. "God saw the light"-He looked at it with

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Morning... Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, "Let there be light." We who enjoy it should be more grateful for i

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... 2 Samuel 2:26 Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Morning & Evening... John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink. Patience had her perfect work in the Lord Jesus, and until the last day of the feast He

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 74:16 The night also is Thine. Yes, Lord, Thou dost not abdicate Thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost Thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; Thine eyes watch us as the stars, an

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Matthew 28:20 Lo, I am with you alway. The Lord Jesus is in the midst of His church; He walketh among the golden candlesticks; His promise is, "Lo, I am with you alway." He is as surely with us now as He was with the disciples at the l

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... John 10:9 I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the way of access to God Himself. He gives to the man w

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 54:11 And lay thy foundations with sapphires. Not only that which is seen of the church of God, but that which is unseen, is fair and precious. Foundations are out of sight, and so long as they are firm it is not expected that t

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Hosea 5:7 They have dealt treacherously against the Lord. Believer, here is a sorrowful truth! Thou art the beloved of the Lord, redeemed by blood, called by grace, preserved in Christ Jesus, accepted in the Beloved, on thy way to heav

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Acts 16:14 Whose heart the Lord opened. In Lydia's conversion there are many points of interest. It was brought about by providential circumstances. She was a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, but just at the right time for he

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 24:8 The Lord mighty in battle. Well may our God be glorious in the eyes of His people, seeing that He has wrought such wonders for them, in them, and by them. For them, the Lord Jesus upon Calvary routed every foe, breaking all

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... 1 Corinthians 9:22 I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Paul's great object was not merely to instruct and to improve, but to save. Anything short of this would have disappointed him; he would have men

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Zechariah 1:20 And the Lord shewed me four carpenters. In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible horns. They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest and the mightiest; and the prophe

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Zechariah 4:10 They shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. Small things marked the beginning of the work in the hand of Zerubbabel, but none might despise it, for the Lord had raised up one who would persev

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Philippians 3:10 The power of His resurrection. The doctrine of a risen Saviour is exceedingly precious. The resurrection is the corner-stone of the entire building of Christianity. It is the key-stone of the arch of our salvation. It

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Job 23:3 O that I knew where I might find Him! In Job's uttermost extremity he cried after the Lord. The longing desire of an afflicted child of God is once more to see his Father's face. His first prayer is not "O that I might be he

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty. The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of Him; and the more deeply you study His transactions in the eternal covenant, His engagem

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Genesis 29:26 And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn. We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Acts 1:8 And ye shall be witnesses unto Me. In order to learn how to discharge your duty as a witness for Christ, look at His example. He is always witnessing: by the well of Samaria, or in the Temple of Jerusalem: by the lake of Genne

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Mark 14:14 The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with My disciples? Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; each householder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Luke 24:16 But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him. The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Hosea 13:5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought. Yes, Lord, Thou didst indeed know me in my fallen state, and Thou didst even then choose me for Thyself. When I was loathsome and self-abhorred, Thou didst rec

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Ruth 2:3 She gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Her hap was. Yes, it seemed nothing but an accident, but how divinely was it

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 36:9 In Thy light shall we see light. No lips can tell the love of Christ to the heart till Jesus Himself shall speak within. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power; till our Imm

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Luke 22:46 Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Isaiah 64:6 We are all as an unclean thing. The believer is a new creature, he belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people-the Spirit of God is in him, and in all respects he is far removed from the natural man; but for all tha

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Romans 8:30 Whom He did predestinate, them He also called. In the second epistle to Timothy, first chapter, and ninth verse, are these words-"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling." Now, here is a touchstone by which w

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Song of Solomon 8:6 Love is strong as death. Whose love can this be which is as mighty as the conqueror of monarchs, the destroyer of the human race? Would it not sound like satire if it were applied to my poor, weak, and scarcely livi

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Exodus 34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. Every firstborn creature must be the Lord's, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen. When in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp edg

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Psalm 26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners. Fear made David pray thus, for something whispered, "Perhaps, after all, thou mayst be gathered with the wicked." That fear, although marred by unbelief, springs, in the main, from holy anxi

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... 1 Corinthians 1:30 Who of God is made unto us wisdom. Man's intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cros

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Deuteronomy 1:38 Encourage him. God employs His people to encourage one another. He did not say to an angel, "Gabriel, my servant Joshua is about to lead my people into Canaan-go, encourage him." God never works needless miracles; if

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening... Revelation 4:4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment. These representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne. I

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional September 11 Evening... Psalms 5:8 Lead me, O Lord, in Thy righteousness because of mine enemies. Very bitter is the enmity of the world against the people of Christ. Men will forgive a thousand faults in others, but they will magnify the most

JNM <*> daily devotional

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] daily devotional Evening ... John 11:4 This sickness is not unto death. From our Lord's words we learn that there is a limit to sickness. Here is an "unto" within which its ultimate end is restrained, and beyond which it cannot go. Lazarus might pass through dea

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