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December 31 “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” (1 Samuel 7:12.) THE word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet “hitherto hath the Lord helped us?” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health; at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea; inContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

31 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) What do you choose? ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Deuteronomy 30:11–20 Some of you I trust are thus minded.Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 30th “And every virtue we possess” All my fresh springs shall be in Thee. Psalm 87:7 (P.B.V.). Our Lord never patches up our natural virtues, He remakes the whole man on the inside. “Put on the new man”—see that your natural human life puts on the garb that is in keeping with the newContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 30 “Peter was kept in prison: but prayer (instant and earnest prayer) was made for him.” (Acts 12:5, margin.) PETER was in prison awaiting his execution. The Church had neither human power nor influence to save him. There was no earthly help, but there was help to be obtained by the way of Heaven.Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

30 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) Joined to the Lord ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Timothy 1:1–14 The desire which animates and encourages themContinue reading “365 days with Newton”