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January 16, 2026 — Job’s Beautiful Daughters
“Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Prov 31:30, BSB). Highlighted in the list of Job’s blessings we have the birth of three daughters. Of the ten former and ten latter children, these are the only ones named. There must be a good reason. “He also…
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January 16
CHRIST’S NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Php 2:9). Early Christians often referred to “the Name” as though the word stood for the Lord Jesus Himself, as if there was no other name that mattered. We read how they preached concerning the Name, though forbidden to speak to anyone in this Name. Yet speak they must, “for…
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January 16 Petition Mission
“Elijah the prophet came near and said, ‘Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel…’” (1 Ki 18:36). I don’t know many folks who can call down rain or fire as the need requires. Yet we are reminded that Elijah was of the same…
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January 16
The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin’s Son, He joins the stream of our race, the tributary destined to unite the currents of Jew and Gentile, and to divide our river into two courses: one…
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January 15, 2026 — Twice As Much
“In Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Ps 16:11). “Indeed the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.…Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one…
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January 15
CHRIST the WORD of GOD (Rev 19:13): The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin’s Son, He joins the stream of our race, the tributary destined to unite the currents of Jew and Gentile, and to…