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THE BURNING HEART “Did not our heart burn within us?” Luke 24:32 We need to learn this secret of the burning heart. Suddenly Jesus appears to us, the fires are kindled, we have wonderful visions, then we have to learn to keep the secret of the burning heart that will go through anything. It […] Morning, March 22 Scripture: “And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed.”(Matthew 26:39) There are several instructive features in our Saviour’s prayer in his hour of trial. It was lonely prayer. He withdrew even from his three favoured disciples. Believer, be much in solitary prayer, especially in times of […] Grace for the Humble Scripture: “He giveth grace unto the humble”(James 4:6). Humble hearts seek grace, and therefore they get it. Humble hearts yield to the sweet influences of grace, and so it is bestowed on them more and more largely. Humble hearts lie in the valleys where streams of grace are flowing, […] Evening, March 22 Scripture: “Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.”(John 17:24) O death! why dost thou touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches weariness hath rest? Why dost thou snatch away the excellent of the earth, in whom is all our delight? If […] March 22 Trouble is a Messenger “My Father is the husbandman” (John 15:1). It is comforting to think of trouble, in whatever form it may come to, us, as a heavenly messenger, bringing us something from God. In its earthly aspect it may seem hurtful, even destructive; but in its spiritual out-working […] |
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