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April 5
CHRIST OMNIPRESENT: “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Heb 13:5). When Christ said to His disciples, “All power is given unto Me in heaven and earth,” the promise immediately follows, “I am with you always.” The Omnipotent One is the Omnipresent One. The revelation of God’s omnipresence in the…
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April 5 Petition Mission
“Be serious and watchful in your prayers” (1 Pet 4:7). A remarkable incident is told in the life of Archibald Gracie IV. He was returning to the U.S. on the maiden voyage of the Titanic. He attended church service that fateful Sunday in April 1912, and, at about 11:45 pm, he was jarred awake and…
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April 5
The Jehovah’s Witnesses (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society) began at a study with Charles Taze Russell in 1879, and now boasts 7.5 million adherents. Their magazine, Awake, has a circulation of more than 20,000,000 in over 130 languages. Russell proved himself a false prophet by declaring that 1914 would be the end of the…
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April 4
CHRIST the CURSED ONE: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’” (Gal 3:13). We were sitting in a restaurant in Jerusalem when approached by a Jewish physician. “May I sit with you,” she asked.…
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April 4 Petition Mission
“Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (Jer 33:3). Henry Bosch, long-time editor of Our Daily Bread, recounted the story of a Christian pilot whose plane had been hit by anti-aircraft fire and was plummeting towards the ocean. “Immediately I began to…
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April 4
One evening, Abigail Luffe was accosted on her way home. “What’s in your bag, lady?” Abigail held up her Bible: “I will give you this, the most valuable thing I possess, for it says, ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever…’” Paralyzed with fright, she lost the…