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May 3 Petition Mission
“Praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word” (Col 4:3). Ever feel like your attempts at speaking to others about the Lord are like banging your head against the wall? I think I can almost hear the Master saying, “Would you be interested in knowing where the door…
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May 3
George Goodman writes: An appeal should only be made when the Spirit has evidently been convicting the hearers, and then in such sober and wise terms as will leave no doubt as to the step to be taken. We are not without precedent in Scripture. Perhaps the appeal par excellence is, “Now then, we are…
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May 2
CHRIST the BEGINNING: In John 1:1, the Lord Jesus is spoken of as “In the beginning.” This chapter declares Him as the Eternal God, for before any created thing—all of which He made (v 3)—He existed. In 1 John 1:1, He is “from the beginning.” Go back as far as the mind can conceive. Beyond…
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May 2 Petition Mission
“I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you” (Isa 46:4). Henry Moorhouse is called the man who taught D.L. Moody how to preach the love of God. Moody said, “I have never forgotten those nights hearing Henry Moorhouse. I have preached a different gospel since….” Moorhouse and his…
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May 2
H.A. Ironside tells of addressing a “Mission to Israel” in San Francisco in 1898. At the end, an elderly Jew said: “This is Passover week among you, my Jewish brethren; and I was thinking how you will be observing it. You will attend the synagogue services, and carry out the directions of the Talmud; but…