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August 2025

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

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Paul wrote the above words from the Roman prison, where he was in chains and cut off from active ministry. The Philippian saints had sent him a gift by the hand of Epaphroditus, who had evidently expressed to Paul the sorrow of his Philippian friends that he was imprisoned and that the gospel was thus being hindered. Paul assures them “that the things which happened unto me” had not hindered the gospel, “but have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel.” Thus it is with us also. Many times it seems “that the things which happened” in our lives, over which we have no control, have thwarted God’s purposes and have hindered our testimony for the Lord. But let us not forget that the Lord has permitted our circumstances and has assured us “that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” However man opposes, still God “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will,” “for we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” So whatever our circumstances and our limitations, if they are truly committed to Him, He will cause them to fall out “unto the furtherance of the gospel.”
Hindered and thwarted on all sides,
Our labors seem small and few,
But He who holds all things in hand
Sees things from a different view.
Philippians 1:12 ~ Romans 8:28 ~ Ephesians 1:11 ~ 2 Corinthians 13:8

Saturday, August 30, 2025

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“Moses ... spake unadvisedly with his lips” because the children of Israel “provoked his spirit,” for “the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying ... Why have you brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?” So, instead of obeying the Lord’s command to “speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water,” Moses took honor unto himself, and Aaron, and said, “Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock? ... And with his rod he smote the rock twice; and the water came out abundantly.” But “it went ill with Moses for their sakes,” and he was not allowed to enter the promised land. Let us never falsely imagine that because some circumstance or some person provokes us, God holds us less responsible for our actions or words. “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city,” and “he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.” Let us, then, “be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”
Speak not when in provocation,
Lest you speak wrong things and sore;
Words that come from provoked spirits
Will bring trouble more and more.
Psalm 106:32‑33 ~ Numbers 20:3‑4 ~ Numbers 20:8 ~ Numbers 20:10‑11 ~ Proverbs 16:32 ~ Proverbs 25:28 ~ James 1:19

Friday, August 29, 2025

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The Christian may well fear Satan, for “the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” On the other hand, as we depend upon the Lord, we need not fear Satan, for he is a defeated foe. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil,” and “greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” “When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.” Our Lord has “overcome him” and “divideth his spoils” with us, His redeemed. “Having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Now, “thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” It is “through our Lord Jesus Christ” alone that we can overcome the evil one. Our response to Satan must ever be: “The Lord rebuke thee.” Then, always at the right time and in the right way, “when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
Helpless and needy do we stand
In array against our foe,
But our dear Lord is on our side,
And He helps us here below.
1 John 4:4 ~ 1 Peter 5:8 ~ 1 John 3:8 ~ Luke 11:21‑22 ~ Colossians 2:15 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:57 ~ Jude 9 ~ Isaiah 59:19

Thursday, August 28, 2025

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False teachers at Colosse were saying, as they still do in our day, that our Lord Jesus Christ was not “God ... manifest in the flesh,” but only a created being. But God tells us that “in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” that He “is the head of all principality and power,” and that “He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.” And it is in this blessed and glorious One, who “sitteth on the right hand of God,” that we are complete. The forgiveness of our sins is “complete in Him,” “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Our justification is “complete in Him,” for “by Him all that believe are justified from all things.” Our acceptance before God is “complete in Him,” “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.” And our access to God is “complete in Him,” “by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.” Of ourselves we must say that “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.” But in Him “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” and “ye are complete in Him.”
“Complete in Him,” how rich I am,
Standing before God in Christ,
Freely forgiven for His sake,
Accepted and loved likewise.
Colossians 2:10 ~ 1 Timothy 3:16 ~ Colossians 2:9 ~ Colossians 1:18 ~ Colossians 3:1 ~ Ephesians 1:7 ~ Acts 13:39 ~ Ephesians 1:6 ~ Romans 5:2 ~ Romans 7:18

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

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“Christ in you”! Who among God’s redeemed children can fathom it! “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” Yet God’s Word assures me that “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” Our Lord promised that “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth. ... If a man love Me, He will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.” Paul’s prayer for the saints is “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith ... and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” “Christ in you.” “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!”
Christ lives within me:
Oh what grace! More than my heart can comprehend;
Such knowledge fills me with His love;
I long to serve Him to the end.
Colossians 1:27 ~ Psalm 139:6 ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ John 14:23 ~ Ephesians 3:16‑19 ~ Romans 11:33

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

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There can be no lack in the life of one who can truly say, because he has been redeemed, that “the Lord is my shepherd,” because “there is no want to them that fear Him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” This does not mean that we may have everything that we might desire; it does mean that we shall not lack anything that would be for God’s glory and our blessing. In all our circumstances, though they be adverse, we hear Him saying that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness,” “for the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect [full] toward Him.” We may have need of prosperity or we may have need of adversity, “but my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” He who is “the God of all grace” shall “make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” Never forget that “the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly,” for “the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
The Lord Jesus is my Shepherd,
And I am one of His sheep;
No evil can hurt or harm me;
He is faithful to guide and keep.
Psalm 23:1 ~ Psalm 34:9‑10 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ 2 Chronicles 16:9 ~ Philippians 4:19 ~ 1 Peter 5:10 ~ Psalm 84:11

Monday, August 25, 2025

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When God’s Word tells us to beware of something or someone, we do well to take heed and to be very cautious. We do well as Christians to beware of that fondness for so-called wise things, that philosophical view of things that can cause us to think that wisdom is spirituality, when God has told us to “be not wise in your own conceits,” since “the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” This is not the humble desire for more knowledge of God and His Son from the Word of God, but rather “after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Our Lord warned of such men when He said to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Peter warns us that “there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you.” We do well to “beware of dogs [unclean false teachers], beware of evil workers [who teach salvation by works], beware of the concision [who teach salvation by ordinances].” So “beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.”
Beware of all that which takes away
Honor and glory from the Lord,
Which exalts man’s wisdom above
What God has told us in His Word.
Colossians 2:8 ~ Romans 12:16 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:19 ~ Matthew 7:15 ~ 2 Peter 2:1 ~ Philippians 3:2 ~ 2 Peter 3:17

Sunday, August 24, 2025

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God’s grace “abounds” toward His own, there is an “abundance” of it, and “if by one man’s offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” How much grace does God have? How much is “abundance”? The same word that is translated “abundance” is also translated “enough and to spare,” and “over and above.” God has for His people grace “enough and to spare.” He has “over and above” that which all His people will ever need. No wonder that He says that “My grace is sufficient for thee.” Since He “is able to make all grace abound toward us,” we are assured of “always having all sufficiency in all things.” “And of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.” “By the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” “We then ... beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.” “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
His grace is abundant and free
For all the needs of our lives;
Let us draw upon it daily;
It will make us strong and wise.
2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ Romans 5:17 ~ Romans 5:20 ~ Luke 15:17 ~ John 6:13 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9 ~ John 1:16 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:1 ~ 2 Timothy 2:1

Saturday, August 23, 2025

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This is not a verse telling people how to be saved, for it is in a letter “written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” So “if we [believers] confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” What a blessed promise, needed by all of us who know the Lord, for “if we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.” But many times, especially when we are cast down because we have sinned and failed the Lord, Satan causes us to think that the Lord has not really forgiven us and that we must continue to confess the same sin over and over. Such doubt dishonors God, for “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” If He instructs us to forgive each other “until seventy times seven,” will He do less for His own? So when we truly repent of and confess our sins, let us remember, thankfully, that “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.”
We must confess to Him our sins
If His fellowship we would share;
He’s faithful to forgive and cleanse,
With mercy enough and to spare.
1 John 1:9 ~ 1 John 5:13 ~ 1 John 1:10 ~ Matthew 18:22 ~ Psalm 51:17

Friday, August 22, 2025

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A Christian’s prayer life is a reliable barometer of his spiritual condition. The neglect of prayer indicates that the soul is at a low ebb of spiritual power, for God’s Word tells us to be “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” The believer’s attitude ought always to be that “I give myself unto prayer,” for “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much,” and, moreover, “the prayer of the upright is His delight.” “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty,” and we are told to “be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” “My voice shalt Thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up.” “As for me, I will call upon God. ... Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.” Let us, like Epaphras, be “laboring fervently ... in prayers.”
Prayer is a struggle and battle,
That must come from the very heart,
As we pray for those about us,
To have help to quench Satan’s darts.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 ~ Ephesians 6:18 ~ Psalm 109:4 ~ James 5:16 ~ Proverbs 15:8 ~ 1 Timothy 2:1‑2 ~ Philippians 4:6 ~ Psalm 5:3 ~ Psalm 55:16‑17 ~ Colossians 4:12

Thursday, August 21, 2025

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This is the right way to measure “whatsoever ye do,” whether it be “in word or deed.” How may the Christian know whether it is right to do a certain thing, or whether it is wrong? Whether to say certain things, or to refrain from saying them? We can know, if we are willing, whether or not our words and actions will honor the name of the Lord Jesus. “Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.” Then “only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ,” “that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever.” So “whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” This principle will settle many a problem for the willing heart who desires “that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.” “Wherefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him.” So “whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.”
Our words and our actions show us
If our aim is to please the Lord,
Or whether our life is for self
In disobedience to the Word.
Colossians 3:17 ~ Philippians 1:27 ~ 1 Peter 4:11 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:31 ~ 2 Timothy 2:4 ~ Romans 14:17‑18 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:9 ~ Colossians 3:23

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

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These words, spoken by the Lord to His servant Elijah, after Elijah had predicted the three-and-a-half years’ drought to wicked King Ahab, were for the prophet’s own protection. “Hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.” But how timely to all of God’s children are the words “hide thyself.” The old self-life in us wants to be seen and ministered to always. Therefore God’s Word tells us to “let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me, and gave Himself for me.” So “if ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth,” for “ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man.” Therefore “hide thyself,” “and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us.”
Sinful and depraved and ugly
Is all that I am in my own,
But Christ Jesus lives in my heart,
And He gives victory alone.
1 Kings 17:3 ~ 1 Kings 17:3‑4 ~ Philippians 2:3‑4 ~ Galatians 2:20 ~ Colossians 3:1‑2 ~ Colossians 3:9‑10 ~ Psalm 90:17

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

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How sad it is that among the blood-bought children of God, among us who ought to be saying that “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing,” there are “some that commend themselves,” while God warns us “not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” There are “some that commend themselves” by telling of their spirituality. But spirituality that must be advertised to be seen is not spirituality. There are among God’s servants “some that commend themselves” by telling of the scope and success of their ministry and how much more they have accomplished than others, “measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves.” Such “are not wise.” By thus “measuring” and “comparing,” we show how little we know of Him, who is “meek and lowly in heart.”
Nothing in which we can glory,
All our help comes from above,
Where our Lord is praying for us
And covers us with His love.
2 Corinthians 10:12 ~ Romans 7:18 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6‑7 ~ Matthew 11:29

Monday, August 18, 2025

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We who know the Lord ought to do all the good we can at all times to all men, “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” And “as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” But we ought to do so as quietly and unobtrusively as possible, “as to the Lord, and not unto men.” Our “alms,” our compassion, shown and done out of our love for the Lord and because of what He has done for us, ought to be done for Him, and not because we want to impress men. “Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites ... that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret Himself shall reward thee openly.” Shall we “receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?” “For not He that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth,” so “that no flesh should glory in His presence.”
Do we want to be seen of men?
Then their praise is our reward;
But if our service is for Him,
We shall glorify the Lord.
Matthew 6:1 ~ Ephesians 5:16 ~ Galatians 6:10 ~ Colossians 3:23 ~ Matthew 6:2‑4 ~ John 5:44 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:18 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:29

Sunday, August 17, 2025

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“We [believers] must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad,” for “every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” The Christian’s character and service will be shown in its true light, for “the Lord ... will bring to light the hidden things of darkness.” All that which has been done in human strength and for the praise of men will be exposed and will be seen as “wood, hay, stubble,” to be devoured by the fire. On the other hand, “the Lord ... will make manifest the counsels of the hearts.” It will be seen that many things which have seemed small in the eyes of men are worthy of reward, because the will and purpose of the heart was to please and honor the Lord, who said that “if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor.”
Is our service one of gladness,
Seeking to honor His name?
If not, there awaits us sadness,
Standing before Him in shame.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:10 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:12 ~ John 12:26

Saturday, August 16, 2025

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“He said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” “Men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.” There are “men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness,” who “lay up for [themselves] treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal,” while God has said to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” When “thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall these things be, which thou hast provided?” “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” “The wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.” So “having food and raiment let us be therewith content.”
Men will praise you when you do well,
And heap up silver and gold,
But only that done for Christ will last;
In Him are riches untold.
1 Samuel 16:7 ~ Luke 16:15 ~ Psalm 49:18 ~ 1 Timothy 6:5 ~ Matthew 6:19‑21 ~ Luke 12:20 ~ Isaiah 55:8‑9 ~ Psalm 10:3 ~ 1 Timothy 6:8

Friday, August 15, 2025

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There come times in the lives of most of God’s children when we have to say that “O my God, my soul is cast down within me,” when we feel that “deep calleth unto deep at the noise of Thy waterspouts: all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.” When we are tired and weary, Satan takes advantage of us and seeks to discourage and depress us, as Amalek smote Israel “when thou wast faint and weary.” When we fail the Lord, even though we know that “if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” we are nevertheless oftentimes “cast down.” When we are in the midst of adverse and trying circumstances, we are prone to be “cast down” and “disquieted.” Let us remember that we may be “persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.” But “why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?” “He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee”; He “forsaketh not His saints.” “Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.”
Are you “cast down” and “disquieted”?
Do things seem to be all wrong?
The God who loves and who saved you
Can fill your heart with His song.
Psalm 42:5 ~ Psalm 42:6‑7 ~ Deuteronomy 25:18 ~ 1 John 1:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:9 ~ Deuteronomy 31:6 ~ Psalm 37:28 ~ Psalm 42:8

Thursday, August 14, 2025

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No one can be saved unless he comes to the Father by the Son, for “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved,” and “whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.” But the words of our Lord are equally true in our prayer lives, “no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me,” “for through Him we ... have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” We have no merit of our own, no matter how spiritual we may be. We must, with Ezra, confess that “I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to Thee, my God.” But, thanks be unto God, “having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,” “let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Our Lord offers our prayers to God with the sweet savor of His own Person and work, and they are accepted for His sake. He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you,” for “no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
God hears our prayers for Jesus’ sake,
Because of the work He’s done;
We may, then, come boldly to Him
For the sake of His dear Son.
John 14:6 ~ Acts 4:12 ~ 1 John 2:23 ~ Ephesians 2:18 ~ Ezra 9:6 ~ Hebrews 10:19 ~ Hebrews 4:16 ~ John 16:23

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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Is it not sad that many Christians have to be forced to pray? As long as things go well and there is no special pressure or trouble, we so easily forget to “continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.” Many are those who, in prosperity and health, have “rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High: therefore He brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.” How gracious of the Lord to deal thus with His people, after we thus neglect Him and His Word, and thereby bring trouble upon ourselves. But “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him.” It is a dangerous thing for the Christian to walk afar off from the Lord and to neglect prayer. “Beware ... lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses ... and all that thou hast is multiplied,” that then “thou forget not the Lord thy God.”
When all goes well with the Christian,
He may see no need to pray,
But when hardships and trouble come,
Then there is no other way.
Isaiah 26:16 ~ Colossians 4:2 ~ Psalm 107:11‑13 ~ Psalm 103:10‑11 ~ Deuteronomy 8:11‑14

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

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It is not the “evildoers” who cause us to fret, to blaze up and be incensed. Our text verse says to “fret not thyself.” We cannot blame our fretting on others, no matter what they do or how evil they are; we are personally responsible for it. And God has provided the remedy for it. “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.” We are not to be incensed, we are not to “fret” over the possessions, the position, the prominence, or the popularity “of evildoers.” Rather, we are to “rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” So “fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked.” Let us, then, not blame our fretting on others or on circumstances. God holds us personally responsible for it. “Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil,” for “an angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.” On the other hand, “he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly,” and “he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.”
Why should I vainly fret myself
When only evil it can bring?
His grace is mine to prevent it,
So then will I trust and sing.
Psalm 37:1 ~ Psalm 37:7 ~ Proverbs 24:19 ~ Psalm 37:8 ~ Proverbs 29:22 ~ Proverbs 14:29 ~ Proverbs 16:32

Monday, August 11, 2025

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For every testing and trial that comes to His children, God has a purpose. “For a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations,” and “it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.” The psalmist testified that “before I was afflicted I went astray; but now have I kept Thy word,” and “it is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy statutes.” He further said that “I know, O Lord, that Thy judgments are right, and that Thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.” God works through tribulations and tears to bring His own into closer fellowship with Himself. “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn Thou me, and I shall be turned; for Thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented.” “Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.” “I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.”
A long road and a heavy trial
May be your lot here below,
But your loving Lord is near you
To help you His grace to know.
Lamentations 3:33 ~ 1 Peter 1:6 ~ 1 Peter 3:17 ~ Psalm 119:67 ~ Psalm 119:71 ~ Psalm 119:75 ~ Jeremiah 31:18‑19 ~ Hebrews 12:9‑10 ~ Isaiah 41:13

Sunday, August 10, 2025

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“A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.” Therefore let “no man ... be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.” So, “beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when His glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” In that soon-coming glory “ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ,” with “no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither ... any more pain.”
Tested and tried with pressures,
Till it seems you can’t endure,
God’s purpose is not to hurt,
But to make you clean and pure.
John 16:33 ~ John 16:21‑22 ~ 1 Thessalonians 3:3 ~ 1 Peter 4:12‑13 ~ 1 Peter 1:6‑7 ~ Revelation 21:4

Saturday, August 9, 2025

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In that coming day when national Israel shall repent and be converted at our Lord’s return to earth, when “there shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,” the Holy Spirit will be unto them “the Spirit of grace and of supplications.” He is that now to all of us who know the Lord Jesus, for He indwells every believer, and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” He is “the Spirit of grace,” imparting to us “the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,” and enabling us to “be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus,” and to “be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” Thus are we “strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.” And He, the blessed Holy Spirit, is also “the Spirit of ... supplications,” causing us, as we yield to the Lord, to be “praying in the Holy Ghost,” and to be “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” And as we “walk in the Spirit,” He will cause us to look on that Pierced One with hearts made contrite by His love and grace.
The Spirit who indwelleth me
Is the Spirit of God’s grace,
Leading me in supplication,
For all who’ve entered the race.
Zechariah 12:10 ~ Romans 11:26 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 8:9 ~ 2 Timothy 2:1 ~ Ephesians 6:10 ~ Ephesians 3:16‑17 ~ Jude 20 ~ Ephesians 6:18 ~ Galatians 5:16

Friday, August 8, 2025

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How often, sad to say, we Christians grumble and complain, either thoughtlessly or willfully ignoring the fact that the Lord has permitted the circumstances about which we murmur and complain. “The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot,” and to murmur and complain is to say, in effect, that God has made a mistake. We may try to keep our murmuring private, as the children of Israel “murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord,” or we may even do it in our hearts, without outward expression, but it is not hidden from Him who “looketh on the heart,” for “Thou understandest my thought afar off.” One of Israel’s anticipated blessings during the millennial reign of our Lord is “that there be no complaining in our streets,” and God’s Word to us now is “neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” So “use hospitality one to another without grudging [murmuring],” and “grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door,” but let there be “rather giving of thanks.”
I need not murmur nor complain;
The Lord has determined my lot;
He assigneth me my portion,
Blessings that cannot be bought.
Philippians 2:14 ~ Psalm 16:5 ~ Psalm 106:25 ~ 1 Samuel 16:7 ~ Psalm 139:2 ~ Psalm 144:14 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:10‑11 ~ 1 Peter 4:9 ~ James 5:9 ~ Ephesians 5:4

Thursday, August 7, 2025

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Imperfect as we all are, we greatly need the exhortation and encouragement of other Christians, for “now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.” So “exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” “Where two or three are gathered together in My name,” said our Lord, “there am I in the midst of them.” By God’s grace, “I am a companion of all them that fear Thee, and of them that keep Thy precepts.” And we need each other’s fellowship and encouragement all the more “as ye see the day approaching.” While we are not looking for signs but for the assembling shout of our Lord, we cannot but see the shadows of things to come, reminding us that “now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light,” thus “redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” “The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.”
The darkness is almost over;
Soon the Morning Star will arise;
We shall go to the realms of light,
When we meet Him up in the skies.
Hebrews 10:25 ~ 1 Corinthians 12:20‑21 ~ Hebrews 3:13 ~ Matthew 18:20 ~ Psalm 119:63 ~ Romans 13:11‑12 ~ Ephesians 5:16 ~ 1 Peter 4:7

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

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The Lord does not bless His people in a hit-and-miss fashion; He “daily loadeth us with benefits.” Sometimes He “loadeth us” with things which do not seem to us to be beneficial, but let us never forget that “He that searcheth the hearts” and “weigheth the spirits” “knoweth what things ye have need of,” and “faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.” As the king of Babylon dealt with Jehoiachin, so our Lord Jesus Christ, “the King of kings,” deals with us, with a “continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.” He has promised that “My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.” “The Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.” Moreover, “as thy days, so shall thy strength be,” and “surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” “Daily shall He be praised,” “because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning.”
Day by day His mercies come;
He giveth strength for the way;
Hour by hour He blesseth us,
Giving us His grace each day.
Psalm 68:19 ~ Romans 8:27 ~ Proverbs 16:2 ~ Matthew 6:8 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ~ 1 Timothy 6:15 ~ 2 Kings 25:30 ~ Psalm 89:33 ~ Isaiah 58:11 ~ Deuteronomy 33:25 ~ Psalm 23:6 ~ Psalm 72:15 ~ Lamentations 3:22‑23

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

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What are you seeking in life, dear Christian? What are your desires? Riches, fame, so-called security, pleasure? If so, remember that “the fashion of this world passeth away,” and that “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth forever.” Our Lord Jesus said to “take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.” “Things” do not satisfy, but the Lord does. “Wherefore do ye spend ... labor for that which satisfieth not?” But “He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.” So “rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.” The person who puts the Lord first in his life and walks in obedience to His Word does not have to worry about “things,” “for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee,” and “they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.” Love “seeketh not her own.” So “seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness,” for “they shall praise the Lord that seek Him.”
What are you seeking, dear friend,
For pleasure, for ease, for things?
Or do you “seek those things ... above,”
Which satisfaction do bring?
Matthew 6:33 ~ 1 Corinthians 7:31 ~ 1 Peter 1:24‑25 ~ Luke 12:15 ~ Isaiah 55:2 ~ Psalm 107:9 ~ Luke 12:31 ~ Psalm 9:10 ~ Psalm 34:10 ~ 1 Corinthians 13:5 ~ Zephaniah 2:3 ~ Psalm 22:26

Monday, August 4, 2025

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After we have “turned to God” from our sins, through His Son, who said that “no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me,” then we are privileged “to serve ... and to wait,” with “labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father.” It is doubtful if any Christian can “serve the living and true God” rightly, unless, while so serving, he is “waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” And it is equally doubtful if any Christian can rightly “wait for His Son from heaven,” unless, while so waiting, he is exercising “faith which worketh by love,” for our Lord said, “Occupy till I come.” So let us “serve” in the consciousness that we are waiting, and let us “wait” in the expectation of His promise: “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be,” and with the realization that “in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
Serving and waiting for Him,
The Lord of life and glory,
Seeking to show forth His grace,
To tell the gospel story.
1 Thessalonians 1:9‑10 ~ John 14:6 ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ~ 1 Corinthians 1:7 ~ Galatians 5:6 ~ Luke 19:13 ~ Revelation 22:12 ~ Galatians 6:9 ~ Colossians 3:23‑24

Sunday, August 3, 2025

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Only the Lord knows how many wounded hearts, hurt feelings and blasted reputations are in the world today because of words spoken hastily or thoughtlessly, for words, once spoken, can never be recalled, no matter how much they are regretted. “If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself,” and are thus inclined to utter boastful words, “lay thine hand upon thy mouth.” Better “let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.” “Or if thou hast thought evil” and are inclined to “speak ... evil one of another,” then also “lay thine hand upon thy mouth.” “Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,” for “death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” “He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.” “Let all ... evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,” and say with David that “I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.” Don’t let Satan mislead you into believing that if you think something, it is all right to say it. Some people pride themselves in saying what they think. Don’t do it, dear Christian! “If thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.”
“Lay thine hand upon thy mouth,”
If evil “thou hast thought,”
For words spoken hastily
Have untold evil wrought.
Proverbs 30:32 ~ Proverbs 27:2 ~ James 4:11 ~ James 1:19 ~ Proverbs 18:21 ~ Proverbs 13:3 ~ Ephesians 4:31 ~ Psalm 39:1

Saturday, August 2, 2025

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One might think that such an admonition to God’s children would not be needed, but how wrong is such a conclusion. Continually, in the church, in Christian work, and in the home, situations arise which call for kindness, consideration and forbearance, and which also call for forgiveness, for genuine offenses occur among the saints. So “let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another,” for “charity [love] suffereth long, and is kind.” If you have been offended or hurt, whenever possible “debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself; and discover not a secret to another,” but “that ye would confirm your love toward him,” “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” and “by love serve one another.” So “put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye,” and this “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.”
How much we need each other’s love
To forgive us and restore;
No matter what the offense is,
Our Lord forgave us much more.
Ephesians 4:32 ~ Ephesians 4:31‑32 ~ 1 Corinthians 13:4 ~ Proverbs 25:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 2:8 ~ Hebrews 10:24 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ Colossians 3:12‑13 ~ Ephesians 4:2

Friday, August 1, 2025

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How serious are we in our reading and study of God’s Word? Do we diligently “search the Scriptures”? Do we “seek ... out of the book of the Lord, and read”? Do we “study to show [ourselves] approved unto God ... rightly dividing the word of truth”? God says that “if thou wilt receive My words, and hide My commandments with thee; so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding ... if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” God says to us, “Receive My words ... hide My commandments ... incline thine ear ... apply thine heart.” To those who do so is the promise that “then shalt thou understand.” Can we say with the psalmist, “O how love I Thy law! It is my meditation all the day. ... I opened my mouth and panted: for I longed for Thy commandments”? And thus shall we testify of God’s statutes, that “more to be desired are they than gold ... sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”
Is God’s Word precious to your heart?
Do you love it above fine gold?
Does it fill your heart with gladness,
With hope and with peace untold?
2 Timothy 2:15 ~ John 5:39 ~ Isaiah 34:16 ~ Proverbs 2:1‑6 ~ Psalm 119:97 ~ Psalm 119:131 ~ Psalm 19:10
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