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April 2026

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

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Our verse does not tell us to keep God loving us. Nothing can ever change or alter the glorious fact that He loves us. He tells us that “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Nor does our text verse tell us that we are to love God, though certainly “we love Him, because He first loved us.” But, our verse says, we are to “keep [ourselves] in the love of God.” We are to keep ourselves in the spiritual condition that permits God’s love to work in our lives and enables us to enjoy that love. Our Lord said, “He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. ... 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.” So we are called to “come out from among them, and be ye separate ... and I ... will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” Then “keep yourselves in the love of God,” remembering that His “love is strong as death.”
Do stay in the place of blessing;
Do keep yourself in God’s love;
Your life will be filled with goodness,
Sent down from the Father above.
Jude 21 ~ Jeremiah 31:3 ~ 1 John 4:10 ~ 1 John 4:19 ~ John 14:21 ~ John 14:23 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:17‑18 ~ Song of Solomon 8:6

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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Perhaps no statement of Scripture gives a clearer summary of how the believer may live a victorious and joyful Christian life, than that found in the words, “Looking unto Jesus.” The words carry the thought of looking away from all else and centering our attention and affection on Him, as He is seated “at the right hand of the throne of God.” We are to look away from ourselves, both our failures and successes; we are to look away from men, however godly they may be, and look only to Him. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.” Just as He tells us to “look unto Me, and be ye saved,” so as saved ones we are to be constantly “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith,” and “consider Him ... lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” For “the Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot. ... I have set the Lord always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved,” always remembering that “He faileth not.”
I look away from my heart so fickle,
And away from men whose lives do fail;
I look to my Savior seated in glory,
Who beareth my name within the veil.
Hebrews 12:2 ~ Colossians 3:1 ~ Isaiah 45:22 ~ Hebrews 12:3 ~ Psalm 16:5 ~ Psalm 16:8 ~ Zephaniah 3:5

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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We live in momentous days, “the last days,” when, as Scripture predicts, “perilous times shall come,” days when we see “men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Therefore, “because the days are evil” and because “evil men and seducers ... wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived,” we who know the Lord are to be “redeeming the time,” that is, “buying up the opportunities.” Day by day, God gives us such opportunities and tells us that “as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” There are times of which it may be said that “ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.” But how much more often is it true that we let opportunities slip away, without redeeming them. God in grace may give other opportunities, but the lost ones can never be recovered. May we be diligent to be “always in remembrance of these things,” that we may “know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary,” and “to warn the wicked from his way,” “to walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.” “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.”
A word of warning, a word of cheer,
As we walk life’s pathway each day,
A word from the Word, with God’s own power,
That will encourage and show the way.
Ephesians 5:16 ~ 2 Timothy 3:1 ~ Luke 21:26 ~ 2 Timothy 3:13 ~ Galatians 6:10 ~ Philippians 4:10 ~ 2 Peter 1:12 ~ Isaiah 50:4 ~ Ezekiel 33:8 ~ Colossians 4:5 ~ Ephesians 5:17

Monday, April 27, 2026

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We live in an age of hurry and rush. Even among Christians, we measure one’s spirituality by his so-called productivity. We so easily forget that when we stand before the Lord, the primary issue will not be the amount of our works, but “every man’s work shall be made manifest ... and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” Quality comes before quantity. We need to remember that Christian service is not an endurance contest and that the Lord “knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.” To be sure, the Lord does not want His redeemed ones to be slothful, for “he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster,” but neither does He want us to be continually weary. “To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.” “Thus saith the Lord God ... In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.” May He not have to say to us, as He did to Israel, “Ye would not.”
It is not by our might or power
That our work for the Lord is tried,
But by the Spirit’s own working,
Who has come to us to abide.
Mark 6:31 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:13 ~ Psalm 103:14 ~ Proverbs 18:9 ~ Isaiah 28:12 ~ Isaiah 30:15

Sunday, April 26, 2026

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Many of us have had times of regret over words hastily spoken: judgmental words, reproachful words, untrue words, boastful words, but all words which can never be recalled, regardless of how much harm they do. Perhaps we did not mean them to be hurtful, but we were “hasty in [our] words,” for the moment forgetting that “the heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.” How well it is for us to be “swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,” for “in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.” It may seem smart and advantageous to want to have a word on every subject, but “he that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.” How very needful that “I ... take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.” Hasty words come from a hasty spirit, and “he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.” So, “set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips,” and “let the words of my mouth ... be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.”
Words spoken in anger, spoken in haste,
Words that we can never recall,
Words that cause sorrow, cause pain and cause grief,
But words that hurt us most of all.
Proverbs 29:20 ~ Proverbs 15:28 ~ James 1:19 ~ Proverbs 10:19 ~ Proverbs 17:27 ~ Psalm 39:1 ~ Proverbs 14:29 ~ Psalm 141:3 ~ Psalm 19:14

Saturday, April 25, 2026

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Our greatest spiritual victories do not always come by our being delivered from trials and adverse circumstances. Paul has been speaking of “tribulation ... distress ... persecution ... famine ... nakedness ... peril [and] sword,” and he says that “in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.” Many times the Lord manifests His grace to us in and during a time of trouble, before He delivers us from it. His promise is that “he shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.” It is gloriously true that “the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles,” and that though “many are the afflictions of the righteous ... the Lord delivereth him out of them all,” yet we can also say to Him that “Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress,” and “I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.” Many times we have to say with the psalmist, “Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept Thy word.”
“I will deliver thee,” He does declare,
This word so blessed He has spoken,
But He giveth grace in the trial itself
And stays near to the heart that is broken.
Romans 8:37 ~ Romans 8:35 ~ Psalm 91:15 ~ Psalm 34:17 ~ Psalm 34:19 ~ Psalm 4:1 ~ Psalm 118:5 ~ Psalm 119:67

Friday, April 24, 2026

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Strange to say and sad to say, we who know the Lord are many times guilty of fearing “the reproach of men,” as if such reproach was of eternal consequence. We forget that “the fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.” Suppose that we are reproached of men because of our trust in the Lord, or suppose that we are reviled because we “walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,” is it not better to have the Lord’s approval than to have the approval of men? “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man,” even the best of men. “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” “The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me,” and “Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy presence from the pride of man: Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.” “My help cometh from the Lord.”
Kept from man’s anger, kept from his hate,
Kept by God’s power and grace,
We look above to Jesus our Lord,
With no need to fear man’s face.
Isaiah 51:7 ~ Proverbs 29:25 ~ Ephesians 4:17 ~ Psalm 118:8 ~ Isaiah 2:22 ~ Hebrews 13:6 ~ Psalm 31:20 ~ Psalm 121:2

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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Many different kinds of testing and trials come to the Christian. It may be misunderstanding or ridicule or scorn; it may be sickness, poverty or peril. But God in grace permits these things and tempers them. And He sends them only “if need be.” “Though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” He seeks to help us, not to hurt us. “No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Thus God desires “that no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.” Moreover, “our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” And in every trial, He says to us that “My grace is sufficient for thee.”
To him who would honor and please the Lord,
Afflictions and testings shall surely come,
But He weighs the load before He gives it;
His grace abundant ever leads toward home.
1 Peter 1:6 ~ Lamentations 3:32‑33 ~ Hebrews 12:11 ~ 1 Thessalonians 3:3 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:17‑18 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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There is much loose thinking on the part of Christians, not always evil thoughts, but also thoughts that are vain and useless. Thus God calls upon His redeemed children to “gird up the loins of your mind,” “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” Outward life is the result of our inward thinking, and our heavenly Father desires that we “be not conformed to this world: but be ... transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” It is true of all of us that “as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” It is not humanly possible to control our thought life; it must be by God’s grace and power. The psalmist knew the secret when he said, “I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love.” It is as we fill our hearts and minds with God’s Word and walk in obedience to it that we can “gird up the loins of your mind” and “set your affection on things above.”
Thoughts of righteousness, thoughts of peace,
Thoughts that glorify our Lord,
Thoughts taken captive by His grace,
Thoughts that are molded by God’s Word.
1 Peter 1:13 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5 ~ Romans 12:2 ~ Proverbs 23:7 ~ Psalm 119:113 ~ Colossians 3:2

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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What untold solace and encouragement it brings to our hearts to know that “the Lord knoweth.” Whatever trials may beset us, however grieved our hearts may be, however much we are misunderstood by friends or foes, though we “are in heaviness through manifold temptations,” still “the Lord knoweth,” for “all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do,” even Him who “calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when He putteth forth His own sheep, He goeth before them.” And He says to His own, “Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” Let us follow the example of David, who “encouraged himself in the Lord his God,” for “He knoweth the way that I take: when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.”
The floods overflow, and the trials overwhelm,
And the heart is as heavy as stone,
But His Word comes to us, “Be of good cheer,”
For He will never leave us alone.
Psalm 1:6 ~ 1 Peter 1:6 ~ Hebrews 4:13 ~ John 10:3‑4 ~ Isaiah 43:1‑2 ~ 1 Samuel 30:6 ~ Job 23:10

Monday, April 20, 2026

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How great are the tender mercies of our God. “The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.” How unlike us He is. We, in our dealings with each other, are prone to be ungracious, quick to become angry, and short on mercy. But He calls upon us who know Him to manifest His character. “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” To Him “belong mercies and forgivenesses.” So “be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love.” Let it not be said of us that “they remembered not the multitude of Thy mercies,” but rather, “let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart.” Let the assurance of His tender mercies comfort our hearts. He “crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies. ... 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.”
Merciful and gracious, full of compassion,
Yet righteous and holy is our God above,
Dealing with us in tenderness and kindness,
Never forsaking His grace and His love.
Daniel 9:9 ~ Psalm 103:8 ~ Luke 6:36 ~ Ephesians 5:1‑2 ~ Psalm 106:7 ~ Proverbs 3:3 ~ Psalm 103:4 ~ Psalm 103:10‑11

Sunday, April 19, 2026

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If the believer is to please and honor his Lord, there are not only certain things which he must pursue and follow by the grace of God, but there are also certain things which he must refuse and deny. We are called to “ever follow that which is good,” and to “follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.” We need to “seek peace, and pursue it.” But the grace of God is also constantly “teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.” And rather than be ensnared by “the love of money,” we instead ought to “flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.” We who know the Lord are responsible to refuse and deny sin in our lives and associations. “Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.” For needed power to do this, “put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”
If we would live for Christ’s glory,
And walk with Him in the way,
We must deny all sin’s wooings,
Taking grace from Him each day.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:15 ~ Romans 14:19 ~ 1 Peter 3:11 ~ Titus 2:12 ~ 1 Timothy 6:10‑11 ~ Proverbs 4:14‑15 ~ Romans 13:14 ~ Psalm 34:14

Saturday, April 18, 2026

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Blessed indeed are they who wholeheartedly seek to obey the Word of God. To do so is to seek Him, our blessed Lord, who said that “the Scriptures ... are they which testify of Me.” “Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” To “keep His testimonies” is to honor Him. He said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments,” and “if a man love Me, he will keep My words.” “Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.” Truly, “blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Be sure that “ye are doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ... A doer of the work ... shall be blessed in his deed,” for “blessed are they that hear the word of God, and do it.”
Hear the Word, and do it;
Fail not its plea to heed;
Your Lord shall be honored,
And you’ll be blessed indeed.
Psalm 119:2 ~ John 5:39 ~ Psalm 2:12 ~ John 14:15 ~ John 14:23 ~ Psalm 106:3 ~ Psalm 1:1‑3 ~ James 1:22 ~ James 1:25 ~ Luke 11:28

Friday, April 17, 2026

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A joyless Christian is a powerless Christian, both in maintaining his own life and in communicating help to others. God wants His joy to grip our hearts, no matter what state of things may surround us. “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.” The Lord desires us to be “exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.” He desires to “fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.” Much joy ought to be connected with our salvation, and only broken fellowship with the Lord can rob us of that joy. When that happens, let us come quickly to the Lord in confession, praying, “Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free Spirit.” Hard circumstances and bitter trials ought not to nullify our joy in the Lord, for we can be “as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing.” Therefore, “count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations [testings].” “My soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in His salvation,” and thus “with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation,” finding that “the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Joy when the heart is burdened,
Joy when trials we face,
Joy in the Lord’s great mercy,
Joy in Him and His grace.
Nehemiah 8:10 ~ Philippians 4:4 ~ 2 Corinthians 7:4 ~ Romans 15:13 ~ Psalm 51:12 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:10 ~ James 1:2 ~ Psalm 35:9 ~ Isaiah 12:3

Thursday, April 16, 2026

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God wants the hearts of His redeemed people to be filled with His own “peace always by all means.” He is “the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.” On the night before the cross, our Lord said to His own, “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” Peace is just the opposite of agitation and fear. God does not want us to be continually stirred up about our problems or our circumstances. He wants us to have His peace in our hearts, irrespective of our circumstances. He has told us to “be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” So “let the peace of God rule in your hearts ... and be ye thankful.” “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee.”
Peace when there is trouble?
Peace when the heart is sore tried?
Yes, His own peace to guard us,
When we in Jesus abide.
2 Thessalonians 3:16 ~ Hebrews 13:20 ~ John 14:27 ~ Philippians 4:6‑7 ~ Colossians 3:15 ~ Isaiah 26:3

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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The love with which we are called upon to love one another is not mere human love, so easily offended and cooled; it is, rather, “love in the Spirit.” It is “the love of God ... shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” It is the same love by which “was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.” With this “love of God” in our hearts, we can love those who are unlovely, and we can love even if it is unrequited. And we can love sacrificially, without counting the personal cost. For to love with “the love of God” is costly, not merely in material things, but in many other ways. It can involve great burden and heartache. “But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”
How can we love the unlovely?
How can we manifest God’s grace?
By looking at our Lord in the Scriptures,
And joyfully beholding His face.
Colossians 1:8 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ 1 John 4:9 ~ 1 John 3:17‑18 ~ 1 John 4:11

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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God wants His children to live peacefully, and He has admonished us to “follow peace with all men.” Such an aim and pursuit will result in blessing to our own hearts, “for he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it.” This being the case, “let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.” Even so, “peace with all men” may not always be possible, so “if it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” We cannot have “peace with all men” by lowering our Biblical standards of conduct, for “the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable,” and whether or not all men are peaceable with us, we should always seek to live by the standards of God’s Word, and “when a man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?” “Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”
How can we be peaceable
In a world that knows not His name?
By constantly “looking to Jesus,”
Being willing to bear His shame.
1 Thessalonians 5:13 ~ Hebrews 12:14 ~ 1 Peter 3:10‑11 ~ Romans 14:19 ~ Romans 12:18 ~ James 3:17 ~ Proverbs 16:7 ~ Psalm 118:6 ~ Psalm 119:165

Monday, April 13, 2026

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Living in and tempered by a materialistic society, it is hard to comprehend that one’s “life consisteth not in ... abundance” and in “things.” It can even reach the point where we are “supposing that gain is godliness.” But we are not to “trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.” “Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.” Not only are “things” transitory, but they are also unsatisfying, and “better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith,” and “better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.” Let us never imagine that “abundance” brings happiness, or that “things” produce spirituality. If God is pleased to give an “abundance of ... things,” let us be sure that “the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches” do not “choke the word” and its ministry in our lives. Rather, “be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Things and pleasures always beckon
And entice the child of God,
But they give no lasting pleasure,
Which comes as we obey His Word.
Luke 12:15 ~ 1 Timothy 6:5 ~ 1 Timothy 6:17 ~ Proverbs 23:5 ~ Proverbs 15:16 ~ Proverbs 17:1 ~ Matthew 13:22 ~ James 1:22

Sunday, April 12, 2026

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As important as the substitutionary death of Christ is, His bodily resurrection is of equal importance, for the gospel message, by which we are saved, is “how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Would it not be an awful thing for us believers to contemplate that we “are yet in [our] sins”? But we “by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that [our] faith and hope might be in God.” For “He was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.” And His resurrection not only assures our salvation, but assures us also strength to live for His glory, for when we trusted in Christ as Savior, we were by the Holy Spirit “baptized into His death ... that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection,” “that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection.”
We shared His death, and we share His life,
Jesus, our Savior and Lord;
He gives us the strength to live for Him,
Strength by the Spirit and Word.
1 Corinthians 15:17 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:3‑4 ~ 1 Peter 1:21 ~ Romans 4:25 ~ Romans 6:3‑5 ~ Philippians 3:10

Saturday, April 11, 2026

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We never know how many stooping hearts we meet from day to day, heavy with sorrow, weighted down with difficulties, perplexed by unsolved and seemingly insoluble problems. We must, of course, be walking in close fellowship with the Lord in order to know how to speak “a good word” at the right time and thus be able to say that “the Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.” So we are told to “let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Thus shall we be able to speak “a good word” to make someone’s heart glad. And not only will it bless others, it will also bring blessing to us as we speak the “good word,” for “a man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!” So “let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” “So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty,” the Word of God.
Only a word, so quickly spoken;
Only a word, what will it be?
A word to help, a word of courage,
A word to last for eternity.
Proverbs 12:25 ~ Isaiah 50:4 ~ Colossians 4:6 ~ Proverbs 15:23 ~ Ephesians 4:29 ~ James 2:12

Friday, April 10, 2026

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Our acts of “well doing” are usually not appreciated by the world, and sometimes not even by other Christians. This being the case, it is easy to become “weary in well doing.” But let us be encouraged by the fact that “God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” All that is done for Him will be rewarded, whether or not it is received or appreciated by men. Our Lord said that “whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in My name, because ye belong to Christ ... he shall not lose his reward.” “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.” So, “beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” Then, “as we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” So, “as we have received mercy, we faint not.”
All that is done for Him
Will receive its due reward
When He shall come in glory,
Christ Jesus, our blessed Lord.
Galatians 6:9 ~ Galatians 6:10 ~ Mark 9:41 ~ 2 Chronicles 15:7 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:58 ~ Hebrews 6:10 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:1

Thursday, April 9, 2026

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How wonderful it is to think upon the faithfulness of God! How it refreshes our hearts to look away from our own unfaithfulness and the unfaithfulness of men, and to remind ourselves that there is One who is absolutely faithful. To be sure, we who know the Lord are called unto faithfulness, and “it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” But our faithfulness is relative; His is absolute. There is no possibility that it can ever fail. “If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.” For “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” He is “a merciful and faithful high priest,” for “He is faithful that promised.” Then “let them which suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.” “Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it.”
Faithful to all His promises,
Found in His precious Word,
Faithful to teach and to chasten,
Faithful and wonderful Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:2 ~ 2 Timothy 2:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 10:13 ~ Hebrews 2:17 ~ Hebrews 10:23 ~ 1 Peter 4:19 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

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How easily and quickly we forget the Lord’s mercies to us. It is written of the children of Israel that “they remembered not His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy.” Many Christians become so engrossed in their business and at being successful in this world that little time and energy is left to think upon the Lord and His blessings and mercies. “Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping His commandments, and His judgments, and His statutes, which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein ... and all that thou hast is multiplied; then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.” May it not be said of us that “they forgat God their savior,” or that “they soon forgat His works; they waited not for His counsel,” but may we rather be able to say, by God’s grace, that “I will delight myself in Thy statutes: I will not forget Thy word,” “for consider how great things He hath done for you.”
Forget not His blessings and mercies,
Ye who know His dear name;
Remember the way He has led thee,
He who is ever the same.
Psalm 103:2 ~ Psalm 78:42 ~ Deuteronomy 8:11‑14 ~ Psalm 106:21 ~ Psalm 106:13 ~ Psalm 119:16 ~ 1 Samuel 12:24

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

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Not only are we saved by grace—“by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”—but we must also live and love and labor by God’s enabling grace. Only thus can we “serve God acceptably.” And God’s grace has been provided for every possible circumstance and situation which might enter into our lives. “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” Paul testified that “by the grace of God I am what I am. ... I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” So God’s Word encourages us to “be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” Helpless and needy ourselves, having nothing to offer God except ourselves as living sacrifices, we hear Him saying to us that “My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Let us, therefore, “be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”
Grace to labor, grace to suffer,
Grace to break the chains of sin,
Grace abundant, all sufficient,
Giving peace and joy within.
Hebrews 12:28 ~ Ephesians 2:8 ~ 2 Corinthians 9:8 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:10 ~ 2 Timothy 2:1 ~ 2 Corinthians 12:9

Monday, April 6, 2026

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We who know the Lord are called upon to show forth His excellencies, for “ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” We are to be “always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” Our lips then should be open to tell forth His praises. “My tongue shall speak of Thy word.” With Asaph the psalmist, let us determine that “I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember Thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all Thy work, and talk of Thy doings,” for “it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High: to show forth Thy loving-kindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night.” “I will bless the Lord at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.”
Praise to our Lord and Savior,
Praise for His boundless grace,
Praise for His merciful kindness,
Until we look on His face.
Psalm 51:15 ~ 1 Peter 2:9 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:10 ~ Psalm 119:172 ~ Psalm 77:11‑12 ~ Psalm 92:1‑2 ~ Psalm 34:1

Sunday, April 5, 2026

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Every true believer in Christ as Savior is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” This indwelling presence of the Third Member of the Godhead marks us off as belonging to God by redemption. “After that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.” So “ye are not your own ... for ye are bought with a price.” Therefore, believers “should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again.” Henceforth “we also should walk in newness of life.” “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things He hath done for you.” So, “grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption,” but rather “be filled with the Spirit,” “building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,” never forgetting that the Holy Spirit is in us to glorify Christ, for our Lord said that “when the Comforter is come ... He shall testify of Me.”
The Spirit of God dwells in me,
Ready to help me and make me free
From sin’s power, its loss and shame,
Willing to help me honor Christ’s name.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ Ephesians 1:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19‑20 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:15 ~ Romans 6:4 ~ 1 Samuel 12:24 ~ Ephesians 4:30 ~ Ephesians 5:18 ~ Jude 20 ~ John 15:26

Saturday, April 4, 2026

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The imminency of the Lord’s coming, the fact that He may come at any moment, is seen in the fact that the Scriptures exhort us to be constantly looking and waiting for Him. We are told to be “looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.” We are not told to be looking for Antichrist, for the revived Roman Empire, for spectacular signs, or even for worldwide evangelization, but for the Lord Himself. “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” Other events will occur in due time, but our expectation is the fulfillment of His promise that “I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” “Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of Him in peace, without spot, and blameless.” He says, “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” What encouragement for us as we “wait for His Son from heaven.”
The Lord is coming to take us home,
Redeemed and made clean by His own blood,
To be forever with Him there,
As He promised in His holy Word.
1 Corinthians 1:7 ~ Titus 2:13 ~ Philippians 3:20 ~ John 14:3 ~ 2 Peter 3:14 ~ Revelation 22:12 ~ 1 Thessalonians 1:10

Friday, April 3, 2026

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The closer the Christian walks in fellowship with the Lord, the more conscious he is of his own sinfulness and sins. What great joy it brings, then, to have God’s Word that “I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.” And, blessed be God, this perfect forgiveness is secured by the perfect, once-for-all sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Not by effort, not by imagined righteousness, not by ordinances, not by church membership, but “according to the riches of His grace” we have “forgiveness of sins.” “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.” And though we, as Christians, need to deal constantly with the matter of sin in our lives, yet sin in the condemning sense is gone forever for the believer in Christ. “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin,” because Christ “His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” as “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
My sins gone and forgiven,
Though oft in my mind they appear;
Yes, blotted out and gone forever
By the blood of God’s Son most dear.
Hebrews 10:17 ~ Isaiah 43:25 ~ Ephesians 1:7 ~ 1 John 2:12 ~ Romans 4:8 ~ 1 Peter 2:24 ~ John 1:29

Thursday, April 2, 2026

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It is indeed fitting for the believer to give praise to his Redeemer. Not only is He due praise for saving us, but for all that we are and have. “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?” He “giveth us richly all things to enjoy,” so “blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.” No wonder that God’s Word tells us to be “giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” “By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name,” for the Lord says that “whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.” “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.” “Let my mouth be filled with Thy praise and with Thy honor all the day.”
Should I give praise to Him
Who gave Himself for me?
Should I remember mercies
Poured out so full and free?
Psalm 33:1 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:7 ~ 1 Timothy 6:17 ~ Psalm 68:19 ~ Ephesians 5:20 ~ Hebrews 13:15 ~ Psalm 50:23 ~ Colossians 3:17 ~ Psalm 71:8

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

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Why does God have to remind us over and over to be faithful in prayer? It would seem that we who have been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ would count it one of our greatest privileges to “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Yet we must be reminded of “continuing instant in prayer,” and to “pray without ceasing.” Not only in times of crisis and great need, but “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,” and “in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Let us constantly remember that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” Therefore, “I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.” “In the day when I cried Thou answeredst me.”
Bowing before Him in love,
Trusting His wisdom divine,
Relying upon Him in trouble,
His own perfect peace is mine.
Colossians 4:2 ~ Hebrews 4:16 ~ Romans 12:12 ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:17 ~ Ephesians 6:18 ~ Philippians 4:6 ~ James 5:16 ~ Matthew 7:7‑8 ~ Psalm 57:2 ~ Psalm 138:3
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