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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. From “Divine Breathings: Or, ” Pious Soul Thirsting after Christ” O, precious saint! Three questions call for your answer: 1. What were you? 2. What are you? 3. What shall you be? 1. What...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.” (Psalm 48:14) The world passes away. Everything here in this present world is changing. Life is like a painted...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Everyone suffers, but how people suffer varies. AW Pink tells how to lighten the afflictions of this life and persevere in faith. 2 Corinthians 4:17 “For our light affliction which is but for a moment, works...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In 1865, England experienced a devastating epidemic of foot and mouth disease that threatened their food supply by killing their cattle. It is remembered as “The Great Cattle Plague of England,”...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Words of Wisdom from the Cloud of Witnesses: "Cloud of Witnesses" refers to those in Heaven who have run their races and are now with the Lord. Their words of wisdom are filled with faith, hope, love, and joy that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Athanasius of Alexandria, also known as Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, was a fourth-century defender of the faith. He focused on the scriptural doctrines of the Trinity (Trinitarianism) and the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.” Hebrews 4:9 We shall consider these words as referring to HEAVENLY rest: our Father’s house, our Savior’s home, and our eternal...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. From “The Nature and Universality of Spiritual Death” by Samuel Davies “My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. My conviction is that the more the Bible is studied–the more there is found in it to be studied. Fresh light, strength, joy, help, grace, and blessing–break out from it! Scripture is like . . . the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Four Degrees of Love” from the Treatise “On the Love of God,” by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 – 1153)You ask me, “why should God be loved?” I answer: the reason for loving God is God Himself....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Christ, Who is Our Life, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, from the August 10th Morning and Evening Devotions “Christ, who is our life.” — Colossians 3:4 Source Paul’s marvelously rich expression...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Furnace of Affliction! by William Nicholson and Milburn Cockrell “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.” Psalm 46:1 “The righteous is more excellent than...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. People like to make lists, such as task lists, shopping lists, pros and cons lists, favorites lists, bucket lists, best-of lists, brainstorming lists, books-I’ve-read or books-I-want-to-read lists, checklists,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “And We Ought to be Content with That” by James Smith, circa 1840s But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of red wine mixed with spices! He pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs!” Psalm 75:8 There has been only One who has ever...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Martin Luther is well remembered as the Great Reformer who began The Reformation with his bold stand on salvation by grace alone. But there were others before him who just as boldly proclaimed God’s truths. Take...