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August 28 What’s The Good Of Prayer? “Lord, teach us to pray.” Luke 11:1 It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the […] Evening, August 28 Scripture: “Sing, O barren.”(Isaiah 54:1) Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are “plants of his own right hand planting,” yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak, each grace in the garden […] Morning “Oil for the light.” Exodus 25:6 My soul, how much thou needest this, for thy lamp will not long continue to burn without it. Thy snuff will smoke and become an offence if light be gone, and gone it will be if oil be absent. Thou hast no oil well springing up in thy […] Out of Any Circumstance As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. (Psalm 55:16) Yes, I must and will pray. What else can I do! What better can I do? Betrayed, forsaken, grieved, baffled, O my Lord, I will call upon Thee. My Ziklag is in ashes, and […] August 28 Sorrowful, Yet Rejoicing “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Cor. 6:10). The stoic scorns to shed a tear; the Christian is not forbidden to weep. The soul may be dumb with excessive grief, as the shearer’s scissors pass over the quivering flesh; or, when the heart is on the point of breaking beneath […] |
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