NOVEMBER 6 For I will pour water on the thirsty land.(Isaiah 44:3) When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and gloomy fears. That is not how to rise from the dust but to continue in it….
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NOVEMBER 5 No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed.(Isaiah 54:17) The 5th of November is notable in English history for two great deliverances granted by God for us. On this day the plot of the Papists to destroy the Houses of Parliament was discovered, 1605. While for our princes they prepareIn caverns deep…
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NOVEMBER 3 Behold, he is praying.(Acts 9:11) Prayers are instantly noticed in heaven. The moment Saul began to pray, the Lord heard him. Here is comfort for the distressed but praying soul. When our hearts are broken and we bow in prayer, we are often only able to employ the language of sighs and tears;…
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NOVEMBER 1 The church in your house.(Philemon 1:2) Is there a church in this house? Are parents, children, and friends all members of it, or are some still unconverted? Let us pause here and let the question go round: Am I a member of the church in this house? The father’s heart would leap for…
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OCTOBER 31 Renew a right spirit within me.(Psalm 51:10) A backslider will groan for restoration if there is a spark of life left in him. In this renewal, the same exercise of grace is required as at our conversion. We needed repentance then; we certainly need it now. We required faith that we might come…
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Songs of Deliverance October 30“I will praise thee, O Lord.”(Psalm 9:1) Praise should always follow answered prayer, much like the mist of gratitude rises from the earth when warmed by the sun of heaven’s love. Has the Lord been gracious to you and inclined His ear to your supplications? Then praise Him for as long…
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OCTOBER 29 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven…”(Matthew 6:9) This prayer begins where all true prayer must start, with the spirit of adoption: “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise and go to my Father.”1 This childlike spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father “in…
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OCTOBER 27 The saying is trustworthy …(2 Timothy 2:11) Paul has four of these “trustworthy” sayings. The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” The next is in 1 Timothy 4:8–9, “Godliness is of value in every…
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OCTOBER 25 Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever.(2 John 1:2) Once the truth of God has obtained an entrance into the human heart and subdued the whole man to itself, no power, human or infernal, can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as…
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OCTOBER 24 The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly.(Psalm 104:16) Without water the tree cannot flourish or even exist. Vitality is essential to a Christian. There must be life—a vital principle infused in us by God the Holy Spirit—or we cannot be trees of the Lord. Being a Christian merely in name is a…
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