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June 24 Trained to Comfort “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God” (Isa. 40:1). Store up comfort. This was the prophet’s mission. The world is full of comfortless hearts, and ere thou art sufficient for this lofty ministry, thou must be trained. And thy training is costly in the extreme; for, to render […] June 23 Made Perfect Through Sufferings “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Rom. 8:18). I kept for nearly a year the flask-shaped cocoon of an emperor moth. It is very peculiar in its construction. A narrow […] June 22 Contentment “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Phil. 4:11). Paul, denied of every comfort, wrote the above words in his dungeon. A story is told of a king who went into his garden one morning, and found everything withered and dying. He asked the oak that stood […] June 21 Intense Prayer “Peter was kept in prison: but prayer (instant and earnest prayer) was made for him” (Acts 12:5, margin). Peter was in prison awaiting his execution. The Church had neither human power nor influence to save him. There was no earthly help, but there was help to be obtained by the way […] June 20 Appropriating Faith “Arise . . . for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good; and are ye still? Be not slothful to go, and enter to possess the land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of anything that is in […] |
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