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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OCTOBER 23 “Do you want to go away as well?”(John 6:67) Many have forsaken Christ and have walked no more with Him; but what reason do you have to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has Jesus not proved Himself all-sufficient? He asks you this morning, “Have I…
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OCTOBER 22 I will love them freely.(Hosea 14:4) This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. Whoever grasps its meaning is a theologian, and whoever is able to dive into its fullness is a learned professor! It is a summary of the glorious message of salvation that was delivered to us in Christ Jesus…
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OCTOBER 21 For the love of Christ controls us.(2 Corinthians 5:14) How much do you owe to my Lord? Has He ever done anything for you? Has He forgiven your sins? Has He covered you with a robe of righteousness? Has He set your feet upon a rock? Has He established your goings? Has He…
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OCTOBER 20 We are to grow up in every way into him.(Ephesians 4:15) Many Christians remain stunted and limited in spiritual things and never seem to make progress from year to year. No surge of growth and spiritual interest is seen in them. They exist but do not “grow up in every way into him.”…
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