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Morning, February 19 Scripture: “Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.”(Ezekiel 36:37) Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded […] Morning, February 18 Scripture: “Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”(Job 10:2) Perhaps, O tried soul, the Lord is doing this to develop thy graces. There are some of thy graces which would never be discovered if it were not for thy trials. Dost thou not know that thy faith never looks so grand […] Morning, February 17 Scripture: “Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.”(Genesis 25:11) Hagar had once found deliverance there and Ishmael had drank from the water so graciously revealed by the God who liveth and seeth the sons of men; but this was a merely casual visit, such as worldlings pay to the Lord in times […] Morning, February 16 Scripture: “I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.”(Philippians 4:11) These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles […] Morning, February 15 Scripture: “To him be glory both now and forever.”(2 Peter 3:18) Heaven will be full of the ceaseless praises of Jesus. Eternity! thine unnumbered years shall speed their everlasting course, but forever and for ever, “to him be glory.” Is he not a “Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek”? […] |
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