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October 23rd Not a bit of it! If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away. 2 Cor. 5:17. Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite sureContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

October 23 “There hath not failed one word of all his good promise.” (1 Kings 8:56.) SOME day we shall understand that God has a reason in every NO which He speaks through the slow movement of life. “Somehow God makes up to us.” How often, when His people are worrying and perplexing themselves aboutContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

23 OCTOBER (PREACHED 1770) A right knowledge of sin ‘And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.’ Luke 9:35SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Revelation 5:1–14 On the knowledge of this character of Christ depends the right knowledge of the sinfulness of sin. Conceive of him for a momentContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

October 22nd The witness of the Spirit The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit … Romans 8:16 (R.V.). We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have done what God tells us to do. ‘Why does not God reveal Himself to me?’Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

October 22 “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst ofContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”