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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. John Winthrop (1588-1649) was a devout Puritan, but not a minister as many suppose. He was a lawyer and in 1629, he was made governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company. He was tasked with leading Puritans to New...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind!” Ecclesiastes 1:14 Happiness is the primary object of human pursuit. The desire for...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision… Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Psa 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. This divine presence is the greatest good in the world. The people of the Lord should be very thankful for His presence with them in their...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “You should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12 Look into some families of professors. Follow them through the history of only one week,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee. Isaiah 26:3 (R.V. marg.). Is your imagination stayed on God, or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Weaver! by J.R. Miller (1840 – 1912) The life that is given up to God in true devotion, need fear nothing. We may have our sorrows, our disappointments, our losses, but all of our life is in the hands of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. In Christ, there is no East or West,In Him no South or North,But one great Fellowship of LoveThroughout the whole wide earth. In Him shall true hearts everywhereTheir high communion find.His service is the golden...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart!” Psalm 37:4 Delighting in worldly things effectually prevents our delighting in God. Therefore it is often the case, that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Mat 26:40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Every word is incisive–every syllable is an arrow whose point has been...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Our Beloved alone can do sinners good! His blood alone atones. And He loved us unto death! Jesus has at once an almighty arm and a brother’s heart! None is more exalted. Yet none stoops so low! None is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of His saints!” Psalm 116:15 To me, death has its unlovely aspects. I may be ready by God’s grace to meet it, and yet I recoil instinctively from...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom!” Psalm 90:12 I number my days aright, when I feel their fewness. To the imagination of the young, life seems long. They catch no...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Delight yourself in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart!” Psalm 37:4 Delighting in worldly things effectually prevents our delighting in God. Therefore it is often the case that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Jesus presents Himself unto us as the Bridegroom of our souls. He says, “I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. And I will betroth you in...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. That’s My King, by S. M. Lockridge, 1976 Dr. S. M. (Shadrach Meshach) Lockridge (March 7, 1913 – April 4, 2000) served as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in San Diego, California, from 1953 to 1993. He...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. An anonymous poem thought to date back to the days of Martin Luther is carved on the door of an ornate cathedral in a small town in Germany. Translated into modern English, the poem presents a very convicting...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying: “Hitherto has the Lord helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12 The word “hitherto” seems like a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever! Psalm 52:8 Meditate a little on the mercy of God. It is tender mercy. With gentle, loving touch, He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds. He is as...
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