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June 13 Petition Mission
“O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God…” (Dan 9:19). One reason we should forgive—and sincerely pray for (see Mt 5:44)—those who do us wrong is the consistently forgiving heart of God. Why does He forgive me? Because I deserve it? No, it…
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June 13
CHRIST the STRENGTH-SHARER (2 Cor 12:9). There are no less than six Greek synonyms for “power” or “strength” in the New Testament. The concordance gives the definition for dunamis, the word here, as: “inherent power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature.” See the piling on of power in Colossians 1:11, “Strengthened with…
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June 13
George David writes: “In order to make disciples of others we need to be practicing disciples ourselves…This is what is implied by the words of our Lord Jesus in Matthew 5:13-14 when He says, “You are the salt of the earth…you are the light of the world.” The “you” in these verses is not a…
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June 12, 2026 — The Arrow’s Point
“Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, Our only answer is the blameless life.” —Wm. Cowper You can’t read many psalms without realizing we’re in a battle and our souls are the prize for which the enemy combatants fight. Psalm 64 is no different. There are two distinct approaches of the enemy. In one…
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June 12
CHRIST, REVEALER of the FATHER: “I have glorified You on the earth” (Jn 17:4). How the Lord Jesus wanted His followers to know and love His Father! He explained that believers’ prayers are not—as many pagan religions teach—an attempt to bend natural law by influencing the Creator. “When you pray,” instructed the Lord Jesus, “say,…
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June 12 Petition Mission
“Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, …that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do” (Jer 42:2-3). Rowland Bingham, involved in the early days of the Sudan Interior Mission, soon discovered why…