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September 23 The Missionary’s Goal “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem.” Luke 18:31 In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end are the same, viz., Our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with […] Evening, September 23 Scripture: “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.”(Mark 9:23) A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was […] Morning “Accepted in the beloved.” Ephesians 1:6 What a state of privilege! It includes our justification before God, but the term “acceptance” in the Greek means more than that. It signifies that we are the objects of divine complacence, nay, even of divine delight. How marvellous that we, worms, mortals, sinners, should be the objects […] Deliverance from Dust and Chaff For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:9) The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are […] September 23 Through Faith “Pressed out of measure” (2 Cor. 1:8). “That the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Cor. 12:9). God allowed the crisis to close around Jacob on the night when he bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he could take hold of God as […] |
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