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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me!” Matthew 10:37 If Jesus is not loved above all–He is...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases!” Psalm 115:3″Whatever the LORD pleases, He does–in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps!” Psalm 135:6 The...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. O Lord of Grace, The world is before me today, and I am weak and fearful. But I look to you for strength. If I walk alone I stumble and fall. But on the Beloved’s arms I am firm as the eternal hills. If left to the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. My Father in Heaven, I approach the footstool of Your throne of grace, through the merits and mediation of Him whom You always hear. My best motives are mingled with selfishness; my best actions are marred with...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “You ask why I follow this Jesus?” is a beautiful poem, written by an unknown saint. It’s been around for quite some time, so it’s likely this person is now part of the Great Cloud of...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Earth is affliction’s home: A troop of sorrows compasses us about. Tears stream. The bosom sighs. The brow is furrowed by the lines of care and worry. Death tears away the much-loved friend. Sickness invades...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Matthew Henry wrote the following on January 1, 1713. He was 50 years old and died the next year. “My times are in Your hand!” Psalm 31:15 Firmly believing that my times are in God’s hand, I here submit myself and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Coming Prince, written by Sir Robert Anderson in 1894, provides the timing of God’s dealing with Israel during a final 490 year period. The period began with the issuing of a decree, in 445 BC by Artaxerxes...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The words of the song “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” have a story behind them that might surprise you. It was a time of war, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was deeply disturbed by the death and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “And he requested for himself that he might die.” — 1 Kings 19:4 It was a remarkable thing that the man who was never to die, for whom God had ordained an infinitely better lot, the man who should be...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and chastises every son whom He receives.” Hebrews 12:6 Oh, could we always analyze the embittered cup–how astonished would we be to find that in the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Bible lays a solid ground for our comfort when it assures us that all things are under the government of God. “The Lord reigns!” (Psalm 97:1) He superintends the affairs of this world, both as the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “He went on a little farther and fell face down on the ground, praying: My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from Me. Yet I want Your will, not Mine.” Matthew 26:39...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Do You Say or Pray The Lord’s Prayer?”When you pray, say: ‘Our Father'” Luke 11:2″You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss.” James 4:3Many say the Lord’s Prayer* (Matt...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. 2 Cor 6:16 …God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. What a sweet title, “My people!” What a cheering revelation, “Their...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Heaven: Our True and Abiding Home by David Harsha, circa mid-1800s Heaven is now our true and abiding home. While on earth we are strangers and pilgrims, far from our final rest. And while such is our condition...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, you are in heaviness through many trials.” 1 Peter 1:6 “If need be!” Three gracious words! Not one of all my tears has been...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death!” 2 Corinthians 7:10 Repentance is the tear of love, dropping from the eye...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Comfort for Mourners by Henry Law, abridged Sorrow has crossed the threshold of your home and now sits a downcast inhabitant in your heart. You mourn as one from whom all joy is fled. The saddened...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. “O, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! His mercy endures forever!” 1 Chronicles 16:34 O, give thanks to the Lord, Christian, for He has not dealt with you after your sins, nor rewarded you...