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July 20, 2026 — Testing God?
After these miracles, they “tested” God by making Him prove His faithfulness all over again. Over Psalm 78:12-16, we might write, “God is spectacular!” These spectacles are designed to teach us that if God can do THAT, He’s up for anything. If He can save Saul of Tarsus, He can save your hard-hearted relative. If He can…
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July 20
CHRIST the FINISHER: “I have finished the work which You have given Me to do” (Jn 17:4). Christ’s saving work for you is complete; His work in you is ongoing. Believer, you are “the elect of God” (Col 3:12); but you are “to make your call and election sure” (2 Pet 1:10). True, “you have…
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July 20 Petition Mission
“Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mk 11:24). Is this really true? It is helpful to note that the word given here as “ask” is better translated “desire,” and strong desire at that. The same word is also rendered…
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July 20
“Is not My word like…a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jer 23:29). A couple of undergraduates were standing in one of the quads in Oxford. One was a Christian. In his hand he held a Bible, having come from a church service. The other man looked at him and said, “What have you…
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July 19
CHRIST the LIGHT: “A light to lighten to the Gentiles” (Lk 2:32). In Gospel Reminiscences, Leonard Strong tells of visiting the last of the 16 plantations in British Guiana opened to him. To his surprise, Strong found an old man who was a glowing believer. How he had heard the gospel since no missionary had…
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July 19 Petition Mission
“‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zech 4:6). Do you pray, asking for the Spirit? The Lord Jesus instructs us to do this, in Luke 11:13. Not for His presence (guaranteed to God’s people, 2 Cor 5:5), but for His fullness; not for the baptism (an…