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Morning, February 24 Scripture: “I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.”(Ezekiel 34:26) Here is sovereign mercy—“I will give them the shower in its season.” Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, “I will give them showers,” except God? There is only one […] Morning, February 23 Scripture: “I will never leave thee.”(Hebrews 13:5) No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint, he has said to all. When he opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When he openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be […] Morning, February 22 Scripture: “His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.”(Genesis 49:24) That strength which God gives to his Josephs is real strength; it is not a boasted valour, a fiction, a thing of which men talk, but […] Morning, February 21 Scripture: “He hath said.”(Hebrews 13:5) If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow […] Morning, February 20 Scripture: “God, that comforteth those that are cast down.”(2 Corinthians 7:6) And who comforteth like him? Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the voice of […] |
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