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June 26th Always now We … beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 Cor. 6:1. The grace you had yesterday will not do for to-day. Grace is the overflowing favour of God; you can always reckon it is there to draw upon. “In much patience, in afflictions, in necessities,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 26 “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” (Rom. 3:3.) I THINK that I can trace every scrap of sorrow in my life to simple unbelief. How could I be anything but quite happy if I believed always that all the past is forgiven,Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

26 JUNE (PREACHED 23 JUNE 1776) A Shepherd’s heart ‘Brethren, pray for us.’ 1 Thessalonians 5:25SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Isaiah 49:8–23 We are, we must be, sharply tried by the cases of our hearers.With respect to the congregations at large, I must have a heart like a stone if I could look seriously round this congregationContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

June 25th Receiving one’s self in the fires of sorrow What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. John 12:27–29 (R.V.). My attitude as a saint to sorrow and difficulty is not to ask that they may be prevented, butContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 25 “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.” (Exod. 14:15.) IMAGINE, O child of God, if you can that triumphal march! The excited children restrained from ejaculations of wonder by the perpetual hush of their parents; the most uncontrollable excitement of the women as they found themselves suddenly saved from aContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”