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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. I asked God for strength. That I might achieve,I was made weak. That I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health. That I might do greater things.I was given infirmity. That I might do better things. I asked...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Psa 46:1-3 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble!” Psalm 46:1 “Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards.” The world in which we dwell is but “a valley...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. One great part of the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart is to empty us. He strips us of self. He leads us to feel our own weakness. And He brings us as poor sinners to look to Jesus alone, as our wisdom,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. As creatures, we all need an object of trust, one on whom we can lean, one in whom we can confide, one to whom we may look for defense and safety. Every creature has some rock–some object of dependence and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “God has chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit.” 2 Thess 2:13 To sanctify is to separate and set apart for holy purposes and holy uses. The Lord has separated His people by...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!” Luke 21:28 We are entering a new year. We shall have new toils, new trials, new temptations, and new troubles. Therefore, in...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Share the Christmas story with the young and young-at-heart by sharing chapters of the Bible presented in poetic words. Alvy Ford, a long-departed saint, created a beautiful work in which he summarized every...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.” 1 Thessalonians 1:5 Most men’s religion is nothing else but “a round of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The privileges of the godly are many and great, but this is a special one: “My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart!” Psalm 7:10 This implies exposure to foes–Satan, evil men,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Next to praying, there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. By reading that Book, we may learn what to believe, what to be, what to do, how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Glorify the Lord in the fires!” Isaiah 24:15 The fires are afflictions. And they are intended to try us, to purify us, and to endear the Lord Jesus to us. Every saint must pass through the fire. And...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Power to not yield to temptation does not come from stuffing our minds with scripture verses, making vows, spending hours in prayer, fasting, or even giving ourselves over to a great spiritual cause. These things...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “The glorious gospel of Christ!” 2 Corinthians 4:4 The gospel is a glorious revelation of divine grace–a manifestation of the purpose and good pleasure of God, to save sinners in harmony with, and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags!” Isaiah 64:6 The believer is a new creature. He belongs to a holy generation and a peculiar people. The Spirit of God is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “The love of Christ which surpasses knowledge!” Ephesians 3:19 His love stoops! No love stoops like Christ’s love. It abandoned place and prospects and power–to save me! It traveled from...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Love of God is Greater Far Author: Frederick M. Lehman (1917) 1 The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell. It goes beyond the highest star, and reaches to the lowest hell. The...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Salvation is of the Lord!” Jonah 2:9 Salvation includes our election, which is past, our effectual calling and sanctification, which are present, and our glorification, which is future. We were chosen...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord was my support!” Psalm 18:18 Aged believer, you and I can look back and wonder how it is that we are where we are, and what we are: how...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Mark 9:24Lord, I see; but enlighten my darknes! I hear; but cure my deafness! I move; but quicken my dullness! And I desire; but help my unwillingness! Sin in the...