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February 17 The Initiative Against Depression “Arise and eat.” 1 Kings 19:5 The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive; […] 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 […] God Can Make You Strong Scripture: “Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded”(2 Chronicles 15:7). God had done great things for King Asa and Judah, but yet they were a feeble folk. Their feet were very tottering in the ways of the LORD, […] Evening, February 17 Scripture: “Whereas the Lord was there.”(Ezekiel 35:10) Edom’s princes saw the whole country left desolate, and counted upon its easy conquest; but there was one great difficulty in their way－quite unknown to them－“The Lord was there”; and in his presence lay the special security of the chosen land. Whatever may […] February 17 A Simple Prayer “I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” (Acts 27:25). I went to America some years ago with the captain of a steamer, who was a very devoted Christian. When off the coast of Newfoundland he said to me, “The last time […] |
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