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November 21 Remember My Song in the Night “I call to remembrance my song in the night” (Psalm 77:6). I have read somewhere of a little bird that will never sing the melody his master wishes while his cage is full of light. He learns a snatch of this, a bar of that, […] November 20 Receive the Cup of Sorrow “Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?” (John 18:11, Weymouth). God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of […] November 19 Attitude of Trust “And it came to pass, before he had done speaking…and he said, Blessed be Jehovah…who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth” (Gen. 24:15, 27). Every right prayer is answered before the prayer itself is finished–before we have “done speaking.” This is because God has pledged […] November 18 Pressing Forward “I was crushed…so much so that I despaired even of life, but that was to make me rely not on myself, but on the God who raises the dead” (2 Cor. 1:8, 9). “Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; Pressed so intensely it seems, beyond […] November 17 Season of Waiting “And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness…an angel of the Lord…saying….now come, I will send thee into Egypt” (Acts 7:30-34). Often the Lord calls us aside from our work for a season, and bids us be still and learn ere we go forth again […] |
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