October 20
JESUS, who HEARS HIS PEOPLE’S PRAYERS: “…in the days of His flesh…was heard…” (Heb 5:7). We thought of the Lord Jesus, whose Gethsemane prayers seemingly were not heard. But by understanding that His prayer was to be saved out of...
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October 19
JESUS, whose PRAYER was HEARD: “who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of...
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October 18
JESUS the HARD WORKER: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work” (Jn 4:34). No one could deny the prodigious work of William Carey in India, following his Master’s example. Among...
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October 17
CHRIST the UNYIELDING LOVER: “…having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end” (Jn 13:1). C.H. Spurgeon tells of traveling to visit an elderly farmer. The preacher was surprised to see that the barn...
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October 16
CHRIST OUR NEW OCCUPANT: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him” (Jn 14:23). C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), in his classic, Mere...
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October 15
CHRIST the KING ETERNAL: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,…out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting” (Mic 5:2). We were creatures of time, corruptible and...
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October 14
CHRIST the ONE who can MAKE OLD THINGS NEW: “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev 21:5). If only we could go back in time, we might make old things new. But Christ instead takes us up into the realm...
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October 13
CHRIST the ETERNAL LIFE: “The Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that Eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” (1 Jn 1:2). We have no life independent...
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October 12
CHRIST the MERCIFUL: “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (Mt 9:13). “It comes to this, my dear friends: He is...
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