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November 4, 2015
The Softest Pillow
“Submission to God’s divine will is the softest pillow on which to rest.” From Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings by L. B. E. Cowman, Jim Reimann – Start reading this book for free: http://amzn.to/1iDYJvw
With Ink or With Blood
“Never allow a truth of God that is brought home to your soul to pass without acting on it, not necessarily physically, but in will. Record it, with ink or with blood.” From My Utmost for His Highest, Classic Edition by Oswald Chambers – Start reading this book for free: http://amzn.to/1PnJunr
November 2, 2015
Unsyllabled Isolation
“Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God’s character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation.” From “My Utmost for His…
November 1, 2015
Because
Maybe He chooses his disciples because of who they are not. Simon is not solid. At first, the eldest disciple Jesus would name Peter–the rock on which the church would be built–is a pebble caught in Jesus’ sandal. He wavers and sinks when he tries to walk on water. He declares Jesus as the Son…
October 31, 2015
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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of…
October 30, 2015
Running with Patience
Let us run with patience (Hebrews 12:1). “Many of us would nurse our grief without crying if we were allowed to nurse it. The hard thing is that most of us are called to exercise our patience, not in bed, but in the street. We are called to bury our sorrows, not in lethargic quiescence,…
October 29, 2015
Silver Linings
October 29 Devotionals Daily Strengths for Daily Needs Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.–ISA. xlviii. 10. I tell thee, dear child, open thy heart to the pain, and it will do thee more good than if thou wert full of feeling and devoutness.…
October 27, 2015
Stand Firm
“Stand up [firmly] in the place where the dear Lord has put you, and there do your best. God gives us trial tests. He puts life before us as an antagonist face to face. Out of the buffeting of a serious conflict we are expected to grow strong. The tree that grows where tempests toss…
Banking On Him
Am I wise enough in God’s sight, but foolish enough according to the wisdom of the world, to trust in [bank on] what Jesus Christ has said? ~Oswald Chambers http://pennyspagesonline.com/2015/10/...
