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June 16 “Will You Lay Down Your Life?” “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends … I have called you friends …” (John 15:13, 15). Jesus does not ask me to die for Him, but to lay down my life for Him. Peter said to the Lord, […]
Read MoreJune 15 Get Moving! “Also … add to your faith …” (2 Peter 1:5). In the matter of drudgery. Peter said in this passage that we have become “partakers of the divine nature” and that we should now be “giving all diligence,” concentrating on forming godly habits (1:4–5). We are to “add” to our lives […]
Read MoreJune 14 Get Moving! “Abide in Me …” (John 15:4). In the matter of determination. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by way of the atonement by the Cross of Christ. I then have to build my thinking patiently to bring it into perfect harmony with my Lord. God will not make […]
Read MoreJune 13 Getting There “… come, follow Me” (Luke 18:22). Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we […]
Read MoreJune 12 Getting There “They said to Him, ‘Rabbi … where are You staying?’ He said to them, ‘Come and see’ ” (John 1:38–39). Where our self-interest sleeps and the real interest is awakened. “They … remained with Him that day … .” That is about all some of us ever do. We stay […]
Read MoreJune 11 Getting There “Come to Me …” (Matthew 11:28). Where sin and sorrow stops, and the song of the saint starts. Do I really want to get there? I can right now. The questions that truly matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by these words—“Come to Me.” Our […]
Read MoreJune 10 And After That What’s Next To Do? “… seek, and you will find …” (Luke 11:9). Seek if you have not found. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss …” (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, “you ask amiss”; that is, you […]
Read MoreJune 10 And After That What’s Next To Do? “… seek, and you will find …” (Luke 11:9). Seek if you have not found. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss …” (James 4:3). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, “you ask amiss”; that is, you ask […]
Read MoreJune 9 Then What’s Next To Do? “Everyone who asks receives …” (Luke 11:10). Ask if you have not received. There is nothing more difficult than asking. We will have yearnings and desires for certain things, and even suffer as a result of their going unfulfilled, but not until we are at the limit […]
Read MoreJune 6 “Work Out” What God “Works in” You “… work out your own salvation … for it is God who works in you …” (Philippians 2:12–13). Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a nature that renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When […]
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