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May 10th Take the initiative Add to your faith virtue … (“Furnish your faith with resolution.”) (MOFFATT) 2 Peter 1:5. “Add” means there is something we have to do. We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot saveContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

May 10 “I had fainted unless …!” (Psalm 27:13)“FAINT NOT!” HOW great is the temptation at this point! How the soul sinks, the heart grows sick, and the faith staggers under the keen trials and testings which come into our lives in times of special bereavement and suffering.“I cannot bear up any longer, I amContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

10 MAY Sin’s guilt removed ‘And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’ Genesis 3:15SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Romans 6:1–14 The nature of the Redeemer’s work is set forth by a conflict with the serpent andContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

May 9th Grasp without reach Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint. Proverbs 29:18 (R.V.). There is a difference between an ideal and a vision. An ideal has no moral inspiration; a vision has. The people who give themselves over to ideals rarely do anything. A man’s conception of Deity may beContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

May 9 “Abraham stood yet before the Lord.” (Gen. 18:22) THE friend of God can plead with Him for others. Perhaps Abraham’s height of faith and friendship seems beyond our little possibilities. Do not be discouraged, Abraham grew; so may we. He went step by step, not by great leaps.The man whose faith has beenContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”