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
APRIL 24
"Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."-1 Timothy 2:6
God’s law is very exact: an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; a life for a life. (Deuteronomy 19:21) A perfect human being had to be given in exchange for Adam, who disobeyed God. This life could not be that of a sinner, or anyone who makes mistakes, as you and I do. This life could not be that of an angel. It had to be a perfect man, as Adam was before he sinned. Jesus was this perfect man. Matthew 20:28
April 24
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. (Romans 15:2)
THE lesson to each member of the Royal Priesthood is that the special mission of their office, vocation, calling in the present time, is to sacrifice....Another form of service frequently not discerned by the royal priesthood is the opportunity of renouncing our own ways or plans, our own methods or preferences, and in the interests of peace accepting instead the plans, the preferences of others--where it is merely a matter of personal preference, and where we believe the Lord will be as willing to have the matter one way as another. We can in the interests of peace sacrifice our preferences to the wishes of others if we see some good can be gained by such a course.
April 24
These are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the Word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit. Mark 4:20
LET us, dear brethren, not only be sure that our hearts are of the good ground sort, and be sure that we have received and are developing the good seed, the Word of the kingdom, but let us seek also to bring forth much fruit. Seeing that some of these may bring forth thirty, some sixty, and some an hundredfold to the Master's praise, let us determine that by the grace of God, which we know is ours and will assist us, we will be of those who bring forth fruitage an hundredfold-- to our largest possible capacity and measure of service to our King. How may we increase our faithfulness? We answer, by increasing honesty of heart, which prepares us for increased measure of the seed and which enables us to bring this forward to perfection. The harvest is nigh: let us give diligence, therefore, while still there is opportunity, that the Master may find us fruit bearing to the very largest degree of our possibilities of nature, surroundings, and opportunities.
Devotional Books
Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
Poems of Dawn
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