Daily Devotions
"I want them to be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love. I want them to have complete confidence that they understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself. In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Colossians 2:2-3 NLT
NOVEMBER 13
"Ye shall know them by their fruits."- Matthew 7:16
In the same way that you can tell a tree by the kind of fruit it bears, you can tell what kind of person someone is from the life he leads. As we see how he spends his time and energy, we see whether his life is being spent in the service of God, or in seeking human pleasures. Matthew 7:20
November 13
Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of. (Matthew 6:8)
OUR petitions, our requests, our cries to the Lord, therefore, should be for the holiness of heart, for the filling of His Spirit, for the spiritual food, refreshment, strength; and as for the natural things, He knoweth the way we take and what would be to our best interests as New Creatures. We are to leave this to Him: He would not be pleased to see us importuning Him for things which He did not give us, for to do so would not be an exemplification of faith in Him, but the reverse--an exemplification of doubt, a manifestation of fear that he was forgetting or neglecting His promise to give us the things needful.
November 13
Prepare to meet thy God. Amos 4:12
THE right way to prepare to meet God and to hear his decision respecting the character is not as usually supposed, to begin to get pious when we feel the approach of sickness or death or in the presence of calamity. From the moment we become believers in Christ and turn from sin and seek forgiveness and thus become eligible to God's favor, we are urged to present our bodies living sacrifices to him and thus to receive of him an adoption of his Spirit to fellowship. This in turn proves to be but the entrance way to the school of Christ, where they are to be taught as sons of God, to be prepared for the glorious work in association with their Redeemer in his glorious kingdom. As they grow in grace and knowledge, they grow in appreciation of divine favor. Such as are in this attitude of heart are prepared to meet their God at any time. Indeed, their meeting with him has already begun, and anything that will serve in any degree to hinder its pleasurable continuance will be a disaster indeed.
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
Poems of Dawn
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