October 5 “It came to pass … that the brook dried up.”(1 Kings 17:7.) THE education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things, a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its spiritual establishment.Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”
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365 days with Newton
5 OCTOBER Faithful in teaching others ‘For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.’ Genesis 18:19SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Deuteronomy 6:1–25Continue reading “365 days with Newton”
Happy New Year
Imagine living in a earth where human death and sickness no longer exist forever and every evil thought gone forever, surely that is a picture of paradise come to earth. This is the life God has promised for all who believe in him through Christ. This is our eternal hope after having to live throughContinue reading “Happy New Year”
My Utmost for His Highest
October 4th The vision and the verity Called to be saints. 1 Cor. 1:2. Thank God for the sight of all you have never yet been. You have had the vision, but you are not there yet by any means. It is when we are in the valley, where we prove whether we will beContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”
Streams in the Desert
October 4 “So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.” (Job 42:12.) THROUGH his griefs Job came to his heritage. He was tried that his godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to robe me in graces I had little of before? IContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”
