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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Psa 84:5-7 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 There must be a Divine alteration of disposition....
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. ‘Where to go in sorrow’ is one of life’s great questions. For there are none to whom sorrow does not come at some time. The Master, whose footprints are on all life’s paths, shows us the way...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Tears are one of the many consequences of sin. When God made man, He did so with the preview of his fall. “Evident,” we say, for the provision of a tear-duct to the eye, shows that it was designed,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul!” Psalm 66:16 No one word can fully express all that God has done for my soul, though in general it may be described...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Lamb BY William Blake (1757–1827) Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “These things you have done, and I kept silent. You thought that I was altogether like you! But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face!” Psalm 50:21 The God of contemporary Christianity is only...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Phil 4:11-12 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. You tell me of your . . . poverty and many privations. I will reply, “Yes, but then think of your justification!” disappointed hopes and blasted schemes. “Yes, but you are justified!”...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Deeper the Work of Grace by Thomas Moor, “Counsels and Thoughts for the Spiritual Life of Believers” 1882 It is the characteristic of a growing state of grace not to see its growth, but to see more...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Go Down, Death (A Funeral Sermon) Weep not, weep not,She is not dead;She’s resting in the bosom of Jesus.Heart-broken husband–weep no more;Grief-stricken son–weep no more;Left-lonesome daughter...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. O world invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee,O world unknowable, we know thee, Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean? The eagle plunge to find the air?That we...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. 1 Cor 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. Paul’s words draw on his readers’ knowledge of the Isthmian games, which were held...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Walk in the Spirit (let your steps be guided by the Spirit,) and you will not gratify the evil desires of the flesh.” Galatians 5:16 “Be filled with the Spirit.” Ephesians 5:18 Rich...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Where the Holy Spirit is, there will always be deep conviction of sin–and true repentance for it. It is His special office to convict of sin. “When He comes, He will convict the world about sin,...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We have all experienced days or seasons of broken-heartedness. And when we do, there is really only one way to find peace and comfort. Turn to the Lord in faith and petition. He has promised to heal the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The sufferings of our Lord began when He left Heaven and came to dwell amongst man. From Thomas Brooks, a meditation on the Lord’s great sacrifice. “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. This is regeneration. The Holy Spirit quickens the sinner with new spiritual life. He is thus born again. It is a work complete at once, and one in which the sinner is completely passive. This is repentance. The...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Then said Jesus unto His disciples—If any will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.” Matthew 16:24 Complete Repudiation of His Own Goodness For a man to utterly...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Faith is Made Up of Three Things, by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)KnowledgeKnowledge comes first. “How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?” I want to be informed of a fact before I can possibly...
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