From Day to Day; Or, Helpful Words for Christian Life: Daily Readings for a Year

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T. Nelson, 1879 - 648 من الصفحات

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surprises
87
False joy and true
101
Though eternity is near how many think only of time
107
The life of the Church is a mystery to the world
119
The Lord sees countless ways of relief when we can see none
125
If the might of the Lord is marvellous still more is his mercy
138
Entrance and continuance
144
Christs double Sonship
150
Overloving the perishable
157
The first work to be done
168
Even in the darkest valley God can give light
174
Our need and Gods supply
183
There is no way of peace but Gods way
190
The Lords guidance is special as well as loving
200
True following of the Lord
205
We often misjudge the Lord and his ways
206
Troublous times foreseen and foretold
208
We can never aim at too high a holiness
209
Typical sinbearing and real
211
In soulwinning be slow to despair
213
Enlightened gratitude
214
The loving interest of large hearts
216
Canaan though a goodly land was but an imperfect type
218
The feeble should be felt for and lovingly helped 922
222
An assured hope is both attainable and blessed
224
Successful working may be most prized by man but faithful work ing is the main thing with God
226
Speech must be watched as well as action
228
If safe it is because while Satan sifts the Saviour prays
230
The helps given in childhood may not always be given in riper years
232
Whom God defends none can injure
234
It is not new means we need but new power with the old means
235
Sore questionings for gracious ends
238
Till we let go every false confidence we can never realize the true
240
The much commendable yet the much lacking in the church of Ephesus
241
Our corrupt nature
243
Grace to the Gentiles
245
The double gift
247
Conversion first but never alone
249
The sonship of adoption
250
Usually as opportunities are improved they multiply
253
They are free indeed whom the truth sets free
255
Whom we love we long to see
256
They who pray most themselves most prize the prayers of others
258
What we mainly need
260
Remembered graces
262
It is no easy thing to be stable
264
The preciousness of Gods favour
265
The once dead but now risen
267
Seeming deafness to entreaty
268
We have not only a Saviour in Christ but a King
270
Those who come to Christ must walk with him
272
We should prize true unity and pray for it
274
We cannot be loyal to the Lord if disloyal to his word
276
Whatever may be lacking it is not free invitation
279
Even the strong are weak
281
JII Gods promises though often forgotten on earth are never forgotten in heaven
283
Every saint is the Saviours and a prized possession
285
When God is about to work greatly by us he first works greatly in us
286
The right and the wrong of anger and how to deal with it
288
The Lords leadings however strange have always wise love in them
290
We should be praiseful as well as prayerful
291
We should never be staggered by apostasy from the faith however much we may be saddened by it
293
Though all believers are risen men not one is selfrisen
295
Though slighted by many Christ is everything to those who know him
297
Much may intervene between the sowing and the reaping
298
Selfcomplacent contentedness
300
Christian consistency
301
Fruitless effort 803
303
When need is sorest comfort is sweetest
304
The richly fruitful
306
All goes well with us when the Lord is with us
307
Flattering to deceive
308
We dishonour the Giver when we despise the gifts
310
Apostolic conflict
311
Healing and helping
312
Tried yet joyous receivers of the word
314
The one offering of the one Priest
315
We may render great service by silent messengers
317
The nearer we keep to the Lord ourselves the abler we are to guide others to him
319
Correction and suggestion happily blended
320
It is well to remember what we once were
322
In spite of bonds prison experiences have often been bright
323
He who has a goodly heritage may well have a gladsome heart
325
We are by nature not only deep but dead in sin
327
Even little attentions may be helpful expressions of grace
328
A real Word of God without mysteries would be the greatest mystery of all
330
Patience though painful in exercise is precious in result
332
A peculiar title sometimes yields peculiar encouragement
333
Men may be thoroughly bond yet think themselves free
335
The Jews who believed
416
The Jews who believed not
417
Sterling fidelity
420
Love in fullest revelation
421
Love mastering fear and expelling it
423
Precious as the Word is how few profit by it
425
Whatever the cloudings now there will be light undimmed hereafter
426
There is but one High Priest and no other is needed
428
None are excluded from the Refuge who seek to enter in
430
Shall the dead live again?
431
However slow in coming deliverance will be marvellously complete when it comes
433
None can overvalue the Son but many undervalue the Spirit
435
True religion is a choice not a constraint
437
Those who seem likeliest to come first to Christ often never come at all
438
Faith even in evil times can think brightly and speak cheerily
440
There can be no steady walking without divine upholding
442
Strange requests sometimes come from wicked lips
443
Salt must be in the right place and have the true savour
445
The very holiness of Jesus is the hope of the unholy
448
Though it is well to praise the Lord even without song it is better still to praise him with it
450
Rejecting the Word before reading it
451
The troublers and the troubled
453
The sad a likeness of men
455
True cleansing
457
We should fear dissensions and try to heal them
458
When we stand near the Lord we are best able to stand fast
459
We must put on charity
461
Our Lords timely caution
462
Real contentment is rare
465
Forgiveness is never a solitary gift
467
The promised presence of the God of peace
468
Essentials in religion are ever first with the Lord and should be with us
470
Mighty and willing to save
472
Suppliants encouraged
474
A mystery solved
475
The true Sweetener of every bitter
477
Resurrection and light
479
The highest citizenship
480
There is no gratitude like that which is heavenkindled
482
After the partings will come meetings again
483
A hopeful beginning may have a sorrowful ending
493
A true gospel ministry is a choice heavenly gift
499
It is a snare to dwell rather on the little attainable in sanctification
519
Confirmation needful
526
November
533
We must test as well as listen
539
We can neither too early nor too earnestly sow the good seed of the kingdom
541
True gratitude ever pants for expression
543
Obedience has but little value if unlinked with the name of Jesus
545
The Lords jewels are widely gathered
547
Needful fixity
549
The day that none can know
550
Two classes contrasted
552
The superiority declared
554
Trustful reliance
556
Before we can abide we must come
557
After coming we must abide
559
Abraham Gods friend
560
Might alone could not have delivered us
562
The fruit of chastening
564
Right glorying and wrong
566
The thirsting welcomed
567
We cannot save but we may variously help
569
We must not lightly leave our spheres
571
Faith overcoming
573
God is our Father
575
Trouble yet peace
577
We cannot overhope in Gods mercy
579
Not mans opinion but the Lords should ever be supreme with us
581
Silenced for a moment triumphant for ever
583
The Lords commendation of Mary
586
Worthless yet welcome
589
Seek first things first
590
The sickness of Pauls friend
592
Nothing gives such efficacy to prayer as abiding intimacy with the Lord 564
594
Men may be heavy losers without knowing it
595
There are always wise reasons for strange commands
597
Those within should think of those without
599
The more spontaneous our beneficence the more precious
601
The incurable cured
603
Some believe but fail to confess
604
True holiness is a thing of detail as well as of generality
606
It is pressure that tests men
608
A pleasing perplexity
610
The Leader divinely given
612
The unlikely bringers of our best things
614
A hasty deliverance is apt to be an imperfect one
616
The last promise in the Word and the grandest
619

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الصفحة 41 - Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
الصفحة 531 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away.
الصفحة 108 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
الصفحة 559 - If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
الصفحة 209 - And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
الصفحة 635 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him : for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white : for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
الصفحة 458 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
الصفحة 206 - And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
الصفحة 133 - There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun : And men shall be blessed in him : all nations shall call him blessed.
الصفحة 62 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. K But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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