July 5

Don’t Plan Without God 

“Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass” (Psalm 37:5).

Don’t plan without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the plans we have made, when we have not taken Him into account. We get ourselves into circumstances that were not chosen by God, and suddenly we realize that we have been making our plans without Him—that we have not even considered Him to be a vital, living factor in the planning of our lives. And yet the only thing that will keep us from even the possibility of worrying is to bring God in as the greatest factor in all of our planning.

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    July 4

One of God’s Great “Don’ts”

“Do not fret—it only causes harm” (Psalm 37:8).

Fretting means getting ourselves “out of joint” mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say, “Do not fret,” but something very different to have such a nature that you find yourself unable to fret. It’s easy to say, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him” (37:7) until our own little world is turned upside down and we are forced to live in confusion and agony like so many other people. Is it possible to “rest in the Lord” then? If this “Do not” doesn’t work there, then it will not work anywhere. This “Do not” must work during our days of difficulty and uncertainty, as well as our peaceful days, or it will never work. And if it will not work in your particular case, it will not work for anyone else. Resting in the Lord is not dependent on your external circumstances at all, but on your relationship with God Himself.

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July 3

The Concentration of Personal Sin 

“Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips …” (Isaiah 6:5).

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   July 2

The Conditions of Discipleship

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also … . And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me … . So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple” (Luke 14:26–27, 33).

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  July 1

The Inevitable Penalty

“You will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny” (Matthew 5:26).

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June 30

                                                            Do It Now!

“Agree with your adversary quickly …” (Matthew 5:25).

In this verse, Jesus Christ laid down a very important principle by saying, “Do what you know you must do—now. Do it quickly. If you don’t, an inevitable process will begin to work ‘till you have paid the last penny’ (5:26) in pain, agony, and distress.” God’s laws are unchangeable and there is no escape from them. The teachings of Jesus always penetrate right to the heart of our being.

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 June 29

The Strictest Discipline

“If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell” (Matthew 5:30).

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  June 28 

                                                  Held by the Grip of God

“I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me” (Philippians 3:12).

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                  June 27

The Overshadowing of God’s Personal Deliverance

“ ‘… I am with you to deliver you,’ says the Lord” (Jeremiah 1:8).

God promised Jeremiah that He would deliver him personally—“… your life shall be as a prize to you …” (Jeremiah 39:18). That is all God promises His children. Wherever God sends us, He will guard our lives.

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  June 26

Drawing on the Grace of God—Now

“We … plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain” (2 Corinthians 6:1).

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed. “… in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses”—that is where our patience is tested (6:4). Are you failing to rely on the grace of God there? Are you saying to yourself, “Oh well, I won’t count this time”? It is not a question of praying and asking God to help you—it is taking the grace of God now. We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that in the Bible. Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don’t say, “I will endure this until I can get away and pray.” Pray now—draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God’s grace through prayer.

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