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13 MARCH (PREACHED 1770) Get above the world ‘And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.’ Luke 9:28SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Kings 19:1–18 The exercise of secret prayer is as a retired mountain where the LordContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

12 MARCH (PREACHED 1770) Far from the madding crowd ‘And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart.’ Matthew 17:1SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Exodus 33:12–34:7 The place to which he led his disciples: this was a high mountain. What mountain, or where situated, isContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

11 MARCH (PREACHED 1770) Keeping a balance ‘And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.’ Luke 9:28SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 2 Corinthians 12:1–10 These three disciples were appointed witnesses of his passion. They saw him in hisContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

March 10 “The just shall live by faith.” (Heb. 10:38.) SEEMINGS and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way, and are not to be counted as misfortunes, butContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

March 9 “Look from the top.” (Song of Solomon 4:8.)CRUSHING weights give the Christian wings. It seems like a contradiction in terms, but it is a blessed truth. David out of some bitter experience cried: “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest” (Psa. 55:6). ButContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”