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August 2024

Saturday, August 31, 2024

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Comfort

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. (Psa. 84:5‑6)

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. (Psa. 30:5)

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. (2 Cor. 1:3)

I have been through the valley of weeping,
The valley of sorrow and pain;
But the “God of all comfort” was with me,
At hand to uphold and sustain.

As we travel through life’s shadowed valley,
Fresh springs of His love ever rise;
And we learn that our sorrows and losses
Are blessings just sent in disguise.

Friday, August 30, 2024

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Exhortation

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. (Rom. 14:19)

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matt. 5:9)

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding: her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. (Prov. 3:13,17)

Sweet bonds, that unite
   All the children of peace!
And thrice-blessed Savior,
   Whose love cannot cease!
Though oft amid trials
   And dangers we roam,
With Thine we’re united,
   And hasting towards home.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

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Gospel

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death. (Eccl. 8:8)

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with Thee, Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. (Job 14:5)

God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us. (1 Thess. 5:9‑10)

Lost and ruined, vile and wayward,
Deepening gloom hung o’er my path;
Sins recounting, death I feared,
Loomed before me endless wrath.

Trust, O Savior, Lord, I trust Thee,
Is the answering word of faith
Of my soul — till now so weary —
To Thy matchless, perfect grace.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

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The Lord's Coming

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the CROWN of life. (James 1:12)

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. … Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a CROWN of life. (Rev. 2:10)

What a day will that be when the Savior
appears!
How welcome to those who have shared in
His cross!
A CROWN incorruptible then will be theirs,
A rich compensation for suffering and loss.

What is loss in this world when compared to
   that day,
To the glory that then will from heaven be
   revealed?
“The Savior is coming,” His people may say;
“The Lord whom we look for, our sun and our
   shield.”

Tuesday, August 27, 2024

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Encouragement

Who hath made man’s mouth? … Have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. (Ex. 4:11‑12)

Take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. (Matt. 10:19‑20)

I will give you a mouth and wisdom. (Luke 21:15)

I am trusting Thee to guide me;
Thou alone shalt lead,
Every day and hour supplying
All my need.

I am trusting Thee for power;
Thine can never fail;
Words which Thou Thyself shalt give me
Must prevail.

Monday, August 26, 2024

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Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving

O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise. For Thy mercy is great above the heavens: and Thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. (Psa. 108:1,4,12)

I will render praises unto Thee. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not Thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? (Psa. 56:12‑13)

Gracious Lord! my heart is fixed;
Sing I will, and sing of Thee,
Since the cup that justice mixed
Thou hast drunk, and drunk for me:
Great deliverer!
Thou hast set the prisoner free.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

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Lord's Day: Person and Work of Christ

Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! (John 19:5)

I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. (Rev. 19:11‑12)

Thou wast the “Man of sorrows”;
Our grief, too, Thou didst bear it;
Our bitter cup Thou drankest up;
The thorny crown — didst wear it.

We see Thee crowned in glory,
Above the heavens now seated,
The victory won, Thy work well done,
Our righteousness completed.

Saturday, August 24, 2024

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Comfort

Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. (James 5:10)

As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. (2 Cor. 1:5,7)

God has never said that He would give me
Another’s grace without another’s thorn;
What matter, since for every day of mine
Sufficient grace for me comes with the morn?

And though the future brings some heavier
cross,
I need not cloud the present with my fears;
I know the grace that is enough today
Will be sufficient still through all the years.

Friday, August 23, 2024

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Exhortation

Let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. (Zech. 7:10)

Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another? (Acts 7:26)

Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. (Heb. 10:24)

Let us each love our brother;
’Tis the badge by which we’re known
To the selfish world viewing,
That we belong to Christ alone.

Let us do for one another,
All of this, in love, when He
Will reward it all by saying,
“Ye have done it unto Me.”

Thursday, August 22, 2024

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Gospel

Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is Mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezek. 18:4)

Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life. (John 5:39‑40)

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. (John 7:37)

How vast! “Whoever will”
May come and drink of Him,
And know that faith in Jesus brings
Salvation freely given.

How full! It does remove
The stain of every sin,
And leaves the soul as white and pure
As though no sin had been.

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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The Lord's Coming

I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life … shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:38‑39)

Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever. (Psa. 28:9)

He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly: Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. (Rev. 22:20‑21)

Blessed, glorious word, “forever” —
Yea “forever” is the word;
Nothing can the ransomed sever,
Naught divide them from the Lord.

Oh! the rapture that awaits us
When we meet Thee in the air,
And with Thee ascend in triumph,
All thy deepest joys to share.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

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Encouragement

Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. (2 Cor. 6:16)

God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. (Col. 1:27)

We are not now our own, but Thine,
The purchase of Thy blood,
And made, by grace and love divine,
The sons and heirs of God.

Thy Spirit, too, the present seal
Of all the Father’s love,
Dwells in our souls and does reveal
The glorious rest above.

Monday, August 19, 2024

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Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving

Charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people. (Esther 4:8)

Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king … let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. (Esther 7:3)

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. (Phil. 4:6)

   Make thy petitions deep;
It is thy God who spreads with love
      o’erflowing,
Thy God who whispers, all thy weakness
      knowing —
   Wouldst thou in fullness reap?
   Make thy petitions deep.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

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Lord's Day: Person and Work of Christ

By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:13)

Through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (Eph. 2:18)

Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. (Gal. 4:6)

Now free access to the Father,
Through the Christ of God we have;
By the Spirit here abiding,
Promise of the Father’s love.

“Abba,” Father — thus we call Thee,
(Hallowed name!) from day to day;
’Tis Thy children’s right to know Thee;
None but children “Abba” say.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

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Comfort

God hath set some in the church, … apostles … prophets … teachers … helps. (1 Cor. 12:28)

With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men. (Eph. 6:7)

Consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (Heb. 12:3)

Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. (2 Chron. 15:7)

Some word of hope for hearts
   Burdened with fears,
Some balm of peace for eyes
   Blinded with tears,
Some dews of mercy shed,
Some wayward footsteps led,
   Dear Lord, to Thee.

Friday, August 16, 2024

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Exhortation

Who hath despised the day of small things? (Zech. 4:10)

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? (1 Cor. 1:19‑20)

Philosophers have pored in vain,
And guessed, from age to age;
For reason’s eye could ne’er attain
To understand a page.

The knowledge of the saints excels
The wisdom of the schools;
To them His secrets God reveals,
Though men account them fools.

Thursday, August 15, 2024

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Gospel

All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (Rom. 3:23)

How then can man be justified with God? (Job 25:4)

Not of works lest any man should boast. (Eph. 2:9)

Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. (Acts 16:30‑31)

But when man seeks to cross the chasm
With eager heart and step elate,
He finds his bridge too short to reach,
Too frail to bear his weight.

Oh, baseless dream! Oh, useless toil!
Oh, utter and eternal loss!
For God has laid, to span the void,
His Son upon the cross.

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

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The Lord's Coming

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people. (Heb. 8:8,10)

The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. (Isa. 60:3)

A joy unto the nations, O Judah, thou shalt be,
When out of all the countries the Lord has
gathered thee,
And thou shalt be a blessing from sea to farthest
sea.

Thy King shall dwell among thee, His glory thy
   command,
And thou shalt yet be planted within thy
   promised land,
A light unto the Gentiles, a banner in God’s
   hand.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

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Encouragement

Prove all things; HOLD FAST that which is good. (1 Thess. 5:21)

HOLD FAST the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Tim. 1:13)

HOLD FAST the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. (Heb. 3:6)

Let us HOLD FAST the profession of our faith without wavering; for He is faithful that promised. (Heb. 10:23)

I know thy works … and thou HOLDEST FAST My name, and hast not denied My faith. (Rev. 2:13)

That which ye have already, HOLD FAST till I come. (Rev. 2:25)

Monday, August 12, 2024

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Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving

As the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations. (Isa. 61:11)

He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings. (Psa. 107:35)

In the wilderness unwatered,
In the lonely land,
This the feast of God made ready
By His mighty hand.

There the desert bursts in blossom;
There the waters spring;
There the psalteries make their music;
There the blessed sing.

Sunday, August 11, 2024

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Lord's Day: Person and Work of Christ

I create the fruit of the lips; peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him. (Isa. 57:19)

Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace. And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (Eph. 2:15,17)

A mind at “perfect peace” with God:
Oh, what a word is this!
A sinner reconciled through blood:
This, this indeed is peace!

By nature and by practice far,
How very far from God!
Yet now by grace brought nigh to Him,
Through faith in Jesus’ blood.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

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Comfort

A certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. Therefore his sisters sent unto Him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. (John 11:1,3)

Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and He healed their sick. (Matt. 14:14)

He whom Thou lovest, blessed Lord, is ill;
With Thee is counsel; give Thy servants
skill;
O great Physician, come again, restore,
As Thou hast done before.

As in Judea and in Galilee
They brought their sick and suffering unto
Thee,
So we bring ours and pray Thee to fulfill
Thy good and perfect will.

Friday, August 9, 2024

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Exhortation

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. (1 John 3:13)

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. (John 15:18)

So, let the world cast out our name,
And vile account us if it will;
If to confess our Lord be shame,
Oh, then would we be viler still;
For Thee, O Lord, we all resign,
Content that Thou dost call us Thine.

What transports then will fill our heart
When Thou our given names wilt own,
When we shall see Thee as Thou art
And know as we ourselves are known;
And then from sin and sorrow free
Find our eternal rest with Thee.

Thursday, August 8, 2024

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Gospel

The Son of Man is come eating and drinking … a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified of all her children. (Luke 7:34‑35)

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. (Luke 15:4,6)

The Shepherd sought His sheep;
The Father sought His child:
He followed me o’er vale and hill,
O’er desert waste and wild.

Jesus my Shepherd is:
’Twas He that loved my soul;
’Twas He that washed me in His blood;
’Twas He that made me whole.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

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The Lord's Coming

When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. (John 12:12‑13)

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith the Lord. (Isa. 65:25)

Hosanna to the King of kings!
The great incarnate Word!
Ten thousand songs and glories wait
The coming of our Lord!

Thy victories and Thine endless fame
Through the wide world shall run,
And everlasting ages sing
The triumphs Thou hast won.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

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Encouragement

I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel; so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places; and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear. (Phil. 1:12‑14)

Rejoice, rejoice, O soul, be glad
And sing the Savior’s praise;
Let not your confidence be slack,
For pleasant are His ways.

Rejoice and let your witness show
Of Christ’s redeeming love,
That all the world may come to know
His mercy from above.

Monday, August 5, 2024

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Prayer, Praise, Thanksgiving

My foot hath held His steps, His way have I kept, and not declined. (Job 23:11)

Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps? I would declare unto Him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto Him. (Job 31:4,37)

Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. (Psa. 17:5)

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord. (Psa. 138:5)

He guides my halting footsteps
Along the weary way,
For well He knows the pathway
Will lead to endless day.

I sing through shade and sunshine,
And trust whate’er befall;
His way is best — it leads to rest;
My Father planned it all.

Sunday, August 4, 2024

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Lord's Day: Person and Work of Christ

The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day. (Luke 9:22)

I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain. (Rev. 5:6)

O Lord, we adore Thee,
   For Thou art the slain One
That livest forever,
   Enthronèd in heaven;
O Lord! we adore Thee,
   For Thou hast redeemed us;
Our title to glory
   We read in Thy blood.

Saturday, August 3, 2024

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Comfort

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psa. 11:3)

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation. (Isa. 28:16)

Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. (Eph. 2:20)

He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded. (1 Peter 2:6)

I know my firm foundation this,
The rock amid the shifting sand;
I know that Jesus is the Christ,
And builded here my house shall stand;
I know, though all my hand has wrought
By fire and flood be swept away,
This cornerstone of faith shall rest
Firm throughout the eternal day.

Friday, August 2, 2024

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Exhortation

Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. (Josh. 6:25)

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me? (Psa. 118:6)

He always wins who sides with God,
No fear of man in this;
God leads into His perfect will
To bring us into bliss.

And when it seems no chance or change
From grief can set me free,
My hope finds strength in watchfulness,
And calmly waits on Thee.

Thursday, August 1, 2024

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Gospel

They have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them? (Jer. 8:9)

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. (Prov. 15:32)

That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. (Prov. 22:19)

He’s risen now, the work is done,
And God has glorified His Son;
Has set Him in the highest place,
The source of rich, unbounded grace.

Then to the Lord for refuge fly;
Please listen, for why will you die?
Why will you still refuse His call?
Who seeks to save, who died for all.