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Evening, August 19 Scripture: “Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.”(Psalm 31:4) Our spiritual foes are of the serpent’s brood, and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. So deftly […] August 19 Self-Consciousness Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28 God means us to live a fully-orbed life in Christ Jesus, but there are times when that life is attacked from the outside, and we tumble into a way of introspection which we thought had gone. Self-consciousness is the first thing that will upset the completeness […] Morning “He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord.” Micah 5:4 Christ’s reign in his Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and loving flock; he commands and receives obedience, but it is the willing obedience […] Reward for the Righteous So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. (Psalm 58:11) God’s judgments in this life are not always clearly to be seen, for in many cases one event happeneth alike to all. This […] August 19 Strength From the Sorrow “Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now, therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people” (Joshua 1:1-2). Sorrow came […] |
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