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24 SEPTEMBER (PREACHED 22 SEPTEMBER 1782) A nation’s secret strength ‘Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.’ Judges 5:18SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Nehemiah 1:1–11 This war is complicated. Never before perhaps was the nation opposed by so powerful a combination of enemies—we feelContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

September 23rd The missionary’s goal Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Luke 18:31. In the natural life our ambitions alter as we develop; in the Christian life the goal is given at the beginning, the beginning and the end are the same, viz., Our Lord Himself. We start with Christ and we end with Him—“untilContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

September 23 “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his inner being shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7:38.) SOME of us are shivering and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not give it out. Give out theContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

23 SEPTEMBER (PREACHED 22 SEPTEMBER 1782) A claim on our gratitude ‘Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.’ Judges 5:18SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Corinthians 1:3–11 As it respects us, who under God owe our safety to the exertions of those who makeContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

September 22nd The missionary’s Master Ye call Me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. John 13:13. To have a master and to be mastered is not the same thing. To have a master means that there is one who knows me better than I know myself, one who is closerContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”