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Evening, November 16 Scripture: “Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.”(Isaiah 33:17) The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him; and the more deeply you study his transactions in the eternal covenant, his engagements on your behalf as the eternal Surety, and the fulness […] Evening, November 15 Scripture: “Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.”(Psalm 68:28) It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen that which he has wrought in us. It is because of their neglect in this, that many Christians may blame themselves for those trials and […] Evening, November 14 Scripture: “And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.”(Genesis 29:26) We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, but we scruple not to learn from the custom which he quoted as his excuse. There are some things which must be taken […] Evening, November 13 Scripture: “Men ought always to pray.”(Luke 18:1) If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the same errand upon which he himself came, and this mission includes intercession. What if I say that the church is the […] Evening, November 12 Scripture: “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”(Luke 6:12) If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect a Lord, and yet none was ever so much […] |
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