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07/20/2025 – “The earnest of our inheritance.” / “In Him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation – in Him when you believed – were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. He is the down payment of our inheritance, for the redemption of possession, to the praise of His glory.” (Ephesians 1: 13-14)

“Oh! what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone. Yet the realization …

07/11/2025 – Evening devotion: “Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” (Joel 1:3)

In this simple way, by God’s grace, a living testimony for truth is always to be kept alive in the land–the beloved of the Lord are to hand down their …

07/07/2025 – “When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live.” (Ezekiel 16:6) / Evening devotion

Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin, expecting …

07/07/2025 – “Brethren, pray for us.” (1 Thessalonians 5:25) / Morning devotion

This one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader’s memory upon the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every Christian household to …

07/05/2025 – “Called to be saints.” / Romans 1:7

We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God …

07/03/2025 – Evening devotion – “If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.” 2 Timothy 2:12

“We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever …

07/03/2025 – “The ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.”Genesis 41:4

Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness …

07/02/2025 – “Our heart shall rejoice in Him, because we have trusted in his holy name.” Psalm 33:21

“Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their …

06/30/2025- “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them.” John 17:22

“When I stand before the throne

Dressed in beauty not my own;

When I see thee as thou art,

Love thee with unsinning heart;

Then, Lord, shall I fully know–

Not till then–how much I …