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January 13 Have You Ever Been Alone With GOD? “When He was alone the twelve . . . asked of Him . . .” Mark 4:10 His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new […] Morning, January 13 Scripture: “Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber”(1 Kings 22:48) Solomon’s ships had returned in safety, but Jehoshaphat’s vessels never reached the land of gold. Providence prospers one, and frustrates the desires of another, in the […] Never Cast Out Scripture: “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out”(John 6:37). Is there any instance of our LORD’s casting out a coming one? If there be so, we would like to know of it; but there has been none, and there never will be. Among the lost […] Evening, January 13 Scripture: “The iron did swim.”(2 Kings 6:9) The axe-head seemed hopelessly lost, and as it was borrowed, the honour of the prophetic band was likely to be imperilled, and so the name of their God to be compromised. Contrary to all expectation, the iron was made to mount from the […] January 13 God Has Chosen Me “I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction” (Isa. 48:10). Does not the Word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yes, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat has no power? Let the affliction come–God has chosen […] |
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