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September 10, 2026 — Rescue & Recovery
It’s true the Lord rescued them from their distress, but He actually rescued them by their distress, too. It’s Psalm 107 in crisis! We need a wilderness extraction (vv 4-9), a jail break (vv 10-16), a medical miracle (vv 17-22), and a rescue at sea (vv 23-32). All in a day’s work for the Lord! Do you have any…
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September 10
CHRIST the PEACEMAKER: “My peace I give you; not as the world gives…” (Jn 14:27). During her second year in Yangchen, Gladys Aylward, a London parlor maid who went to China in 1930, was summoned by the Mandarin. A riot had broken out in the prison. She found the soldiers afraid to intervene. The warden…
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September 10 Petition Mission
“Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God” (Col 4:12). Now that’s a prayer request! F.B. Meyer wrote: “Amid all the crowding interests of Epaphras’s visit to Rome, his heart was…
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September 10
James M. Gray, longtime Dean at Moody Bible Institute, tells his story: “I regularly attended church. At 14, when I knew ‘the creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the ten commandments’ I was ‘confirmed in the most holy faith’ by a bishop of our church, and was taught that I had become a child of God.…
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September 9, 2026 — Desperate Enough?
How desperate do some people need to be before they cry out to the Lord? Really desperate, it seems. We begin Book V of the Psalter with a thriller! It’s the tale of four rescues. God is the ultimate EMT. The byline reads, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand…
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September 9
CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God’” (Jn 16:29-30). What was it that…