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May 31
JESUS the SUPREME COMMUNICATOR: “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (Jn 7:46). So said the mesmerized officers who had been sent to arrest Him. “So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth” (Lk 4:22). This the testimony of Christ’s fellow townsmen. What of the…
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May 31 Petition Mission
“Let my prayer be set before You as incense” (Ps 141:2). William Cowper wrote: What various hindrances we meet in coming to the Mercy Seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer but wishes to be often there? Prayer makes the darken’d cloud withdraw; prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith…
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May 31
Complete faith in Christ is not only the gateway to Life but also the pathway of Living. “The just shall live by faith” (Rom 1:17). Russell Kelso Carter, author of “Standing on the Promises,” made a profession of faith in Christ at age 15, but in his words, “I made a common mistake; I didn’t…
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May 30
CHRIST our CONSOLATION: “Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation” (Lk 2:29-30). Old Simeon, who prayed this prayer, was waiting for “the Consolation of Israel.” This is parakletos, the encourager, one who adds courage. In the days of the Scottish Covenanters, John Brown…
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May 30 Petition Mission
“Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?” (Ps 85:6). Maria Monsen, a Norwegian missionary in North China, began praying for revival. She sought a prayer partner who would join her in claiming the promise “that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will…
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May 30
Ravi Zacharias writes: “In the 1950s, Encyclopedia Britannica published its fifty-five-volume set, The Great Books of the Western World. One of the gifted minds behind the series was Mortimer Adler. The opening volume is a compilation of the great themes addressed by seminal thinkers during the last two millennia. Fascinatingly, the longest essay is on…