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April 4 “Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see.” (2 Kings 6:17) THIS is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, “Lord, open our eyes that we may see”; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, isContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

4 APRIL (PREACHED EASTER EVENING, 4 APRIL 1779) Don’t be deceived ‘Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ Galatians 6:7SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Obadiah 1–17 There is a lamentable proneness in mankind to deceive themselves in matters of the highest importance. Indeed in worldly affairs theyContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

April 3rd If thou hadst known! If thou hadst known … in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke 19:42. Jesus had entered into Jerusalem in triumph, the city was stirred to its foundations; but a strange god was there, the pride ofContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

April 2nd The glory that excels The Lord … hath sent me that thou mightest receive thy sight. Acts 9:17. When Paul received his sight he received spiritually an insight into the Person of Jesus Christ, and the whole of his subsequent life and preaching was nothing but Jesus Christ—“I determined not to know anythingContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

April 3 “Glorify ye the Lord in the fires.” (Isa. 24:15) MARK the little word “in”! We are to honor Him in the trial—in that which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases where God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, fire hurts.But just here we are toContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”