Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles!

When they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushments... and they were smitten (2 Chron. 20:22). Oh, that we could reason less about our troubles, and sing and praise more! There are thousands of things that we wear as shackles which we might use as instruments with music ...
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Pressed out of measure…. God within Crisis

"Pressed out of measure" (2 Cor. 1:8). "That the power of Christ may rest upon me" (2 Cor. 12:9). God allowed the crisis to close around Jacob on the night when he bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he could take hold of God ...
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…with the king for his work. Beyond the hindrances in all directions.

"These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work" (1 Chron. 4:23). Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell "with the king for his work." We may be in a very unlikely and unfavorable place for this; it may ...
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“…and I heard a still voice.”

"There was silence, and I heard a still voice" (Job 4:16) A score of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought--that God was waiting in the depths of my being to talk ...
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Letting Down of the Wings

Then there was a voice from from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood, and had let down their wings..—Ezek 1:25 What is the letting down of the wings? People so often say, “How do you get the voice of the Lord?” Here is the secret. They ...
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An Irish Blessing

An Irish Blessing May you live a long life, Full of gladness and health, With a pocket of gold As the least of your wealth. May the dreams you hold dearest, Be those which come true, The kindness you spread, Keep returning to you. May the friendships you make, Be ...
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Showers of Blessing

"I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing." (Ezekiel 34:26). What is your season today? Are you experiencing a season of drought? If so then it is the season for showers. Are you going through a season of great heaviness with ...
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The Value of the Hidden LIfe

Life Hide thyself by the brook Cherith (1 Kings 17:3). Definition of Cherith in the Bible: a cutting; separation; a gorge; a torrent-bed for winter-stream, a "brook." God's servants must be taught the value of the hidden life. The man who is to take a high place before his fellows ...
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Circumstances of Our Sorrows ~ The Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones Dear Lord please aways let me see In everything befalling me, A spark of light that I may know That through it all You will it so. May every silent pain I bear Become for me a golden stair, That rises high above the woe Our human hearts ...
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The Vision is Yet for an Appointed Time

"For the Vision is yet for an appointed time…though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry" (Habakkuk 2:3). In the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord's treasure houses, and among many other wonders there revealed to him ...
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Into the Deep

"Lauch out into the deep.”—Luke 5:4 How deep He does not say. The depth into which we launch will depend upon how perfectly we have given up the shore, and the greatness of our need, and the apprehension of our possibilities. The fish were to be found in the deep, ...
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The Lord is My Strength – Climb the Hill of Difficulty

The Lord is my strength. The Lord hath sent strength for thee (Ps.68.28, PBV). The Lord imparts unto us that primary strength of character which makes everything in life work with intensity and decision. We are "strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." And the strength is ...
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What it is to be in the Spirit

What it is to be in the Spirit A door opened in heaven (Rev. 4:1). You must remember that John was in the Isle of Patmos, a lone, rocky, inhospitable prison, for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. And yet to him, under such circumstances, separated from ...
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Evident Wisdom of Being Kept Waiting

Evident Wisdom of Being Kept Waiting "And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth unto the plain, and I will there talk with thee" (Ezek. 3:22). Did you ever hear of any one being much used for Christ who did ...
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What I Tell You. Prayer in the Darkness…

Prayer in the darkness. What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light" (Matt. 10:27). Our Lord is constantly taking us into the dark, that He may tell us things. Into the dark of the shadowed home, where bereavement has drawn the blinds; into the dark of ...
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Water ⛈ The Radiance of the Rain

Given the importance of water to all of life's processes, it's not surprising to discover how often water, water imagery, and water symbolism appear in the Bible. What surprised many, however, is the depth of understanding about the physical nature of water of the Scriptures over 2000 years ago. It's ...
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Incompleteness ~ Natural Law: “Environment.”

Who has not come to the conclusion that he is not but a part, a fraction of some larger whole? Who does not miss at every turn of life an absent God? That man is but a part he knows, for there is room in him for more. That God ...
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God’s Works in the Dark ~ How He still controls the hour

God's Works in the Dark -- "Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the Lord drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided."—Exod 14:21 NET In this verse there is a ...
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Mystery within Light: The Footsteps of Truth

What is mystery to many men, what feeds their worship and at the same time spoils it, is that area round all great truth which is really capable of illumination, and into which every earnest mind is permitted and commanded to go with the light. We cry "Mystery" long before ...
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The Special Delight Amidst Difficult Circumstances

When Difficult Circumstances Arise... This thing is from me. (1 Kings 12:24) The disappointments of life are simply the hidden appointments of love. --C.A. Fox My child, I have a message for you today. Let me whisper it in your ear so any storm clouds that may arise will shine ...
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Who Can Dare? A Dreadful Spirit of Division

Who can watch the rising sun Or see the wonders God has done, Who can count them one by one -- and say, There is no God. Who, the orchard's gofts can share Can taste the fruit that ripens there Can watch it grow and yet declare, That God is ...
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Left Alone. The Master and the Example

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day (Gen. 32:24). Left alone! What different sensations those words conjure up to each of us. To some they spell loneliness and desolation, to others rest and quiet. To be left alone without ...
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The Gold Beyond the Grey ~ Life’s Tapestry

Life's Tapestry Glancing at the pattern Of my life's rare tapestry It seemed the threads of darkness Were all that I could see, I failed to see the glitter Of the gold beyond the grey The myriad lovely colours Of life's joys along the way, Until I saw the pattern ...
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  From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures — "To Those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings… The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.  Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. Ignorance of God is no longer a stepping stone to faith. The only guarantee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life Eternal. Though empires fall, "The Lord shall reign forever."

"The divine principle of healing is proved in the personal expirence of any sincere seeker of Truth."