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Daily Devotional January 31, 2016 Purifying, Vitalizing Power Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Ps. 51:10. The Lord purifies the heart very much as we air a room. We do not close the doors and windows, and throw in some purifying substance; but we open the doors and throw wide the windows, and let heaven’s purifying atmosphere flow in. . . . The windows of impulse, of feeling must be opened up toward heaven, and the dust of selfishness and earthliness must be expelled. The grace of God must sweep through the chambers of the mind, the imagination must have heavenly themes for contemplation, and every element of the nature must be purified and vitalized by the Spirit of God. He who lives the principles of Bible religion, will not be found weak in moral power. Under the ennobling influence of the Holy Spirit, the tastes and inclinations become pure and holy. Nothing takes so strong...

Thought of the Day January 31, 2016 The Lord will certainly hear and answer the prayers of His workers if they will seek Him for counsel and instruction. Prayer, p. 34 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 30, 2016 A Comforter Like Christ Nevertheless I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. John 16:7. The Comforter that Christ promised to send after He ascended to heaven, is the Spirit in all the fullness of the Godhead, making manifest the power of divine grace to all who receive and believe in Christ as a personal Saviour. With the consecrated worker for God, in whatever place he may be, the Holy Spirit abides. The words spoken to the disciples are spoken also to us. The Comforter is ours as well as theirs. There is no comforter like Christ, so tender and so true. He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities. His Spirit speaks to the heart. Circumstances may separate us from our friends; the broad, restless ocean may roll between us and them. Though their sincere fr...

Thought of the Day January 30, 2016 Those who have a humble, trusting, contrite heart, God accepts, and hears their prayer; and when God helps, all obstacles will be overcome. Prayer, p. 33. Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 29, 2016 So Costly—and Yet Free By the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. Rom. 5:18. Money cannot buy it, intellect cannot grasp it, power cannot command it; but to all who will accept it, God’s glorious grace is freely given. But men may feel their need, and, renouncing all self-dependence, accept salvation as a gift. Those who enter heaven will not scale its walls by their own righteousness, nor will its gates be opened to them for costly offerings of gold or silver, but they will gain an entrance to the many mansions of the Father’s house through the merits of the cross of Christ. For sinful men, the highest consolation, the greatest cause of rejoicing, is that Heaven has given Jesus to be the sinner’s Saviour. . . . He offered to go over the ground where Adam stumbled and fell; to meet the tempter on the field of battle, and...

Thought of the Day January 29, 2016 Without unceasing prayer and diligent watching we are in danger of growing careless and of deviating from the right path. Prayer, p. 32 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 28, 2016 The Sins Of The World He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. Isa. 53:5. Some have limited views of the atonement. They think that Christ suffered only a small portion of the penalty of the law of God; they suppose that, while the wrath of God was felt by His dear Son, He had, through all His painful sufferings, the evidence of His Father’s love and acceptance; that the portals of the tomb before Him were illuminated with bright hope, and that He had the abiding evidence of His future glory. Here is a great mistake. Christ’s keenest anguish was a sense of His Father’s displeasure. His mental agony because of this was of such intensity that man can have but faint conception of it. With many the story of the condescension, humiliation, and sacrifice of our divi...

Thought of the Day January 28, 2016 There is no such thing as our entering the heavenly portals through indulgence and folly, amusement, selfishness, but only by constant watchfulness and unceasing prayer. Prayer, p. 31 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 27, 2016 Unutterable Loneliness I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me. Isa. 63:3. Through childhood, youth, and manhood, Jesus walked alone. In His purity and His faithfulness, He trod the winepress alone, and of the people there was none with Him. He carried the awful weight of responsibility for the salvation of men. He knew that unless there was a decided change in the principles and purposes of the human race, all would be lost. This was the burden of His soul, and none could appreciate the weight that rested upon Him. Throughout His life His mother and His brothers did not comprehend His mission. Even His disciples did not understand Him. He had dwelt in eternal light, as one with God, but His life on earth must be spent in solitude. As one with us, He must bear the burden of our guilt and woe. The Sinless One must feel the shame of sin. The peace lover...

Thought of the Day January 27, 2016 It is our safety, our life, our joy, to dwell upon the truths of the plan of salvation. Faith and prayer are necessary in order that we may behold the deep things of God. Our minds are so bound about with narrow ideas, that we catch but limited views of the experience it is our privilege to have. Prayer, p. 30. Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 26, 2016 God’s Eternal Pledge He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Ps. 105:8 God stands back of every promise He has made. With your Bibles in your hands, say: “I have done as Thou hast said. I present Thy promise, ‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you’ (Matt. 7:7).” . . . The rainbow about the throne is an assurance that God is true; that in Him is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. We have sinned against Him and are undeserving of His favor; yet He Himself has put into our lips that most wonderful of pleas: “Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us” (Jer. 14:21). He has pledged Himself to give heed to our cry when we come to Him confessing our un...

Thought of the Day January 26, 2016 "Pray always;" that is, be ever in the spirit of prayer, and then you will be in readiness for your Lord's coming. Prayer, p. 29 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 25, 2016 Written On The Heart After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. . . . I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jer. 31:33, 34. The same law that was engraved upon the tables of stone, is written by the Holy Spirit upon the tables of the heart. Instead of going about to establish our own righteousness we accept the righteousness of Christ. His blood atones for our sins. His obedience is accepted for us. Then the heart renewed by the Holy Spirit will bring forth “the fruits of the Spirit.” Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked. There are two errors against which the children of God—particularly those who have just come to trust in His grace—especially need to ...

Thought of the Day January 25, 2016 The victory is not won without much earnest prayer, without the humbling of self at every step. Our will is not to be forced into co-operation with divine agencies, but it must be voluntarily submitted. Prayer, p. 28 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 24, 2016 Terms Of The Covenant If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. Ex. 19:5. In the beginning, God gave His law to mankind as a means of attaining happiness and eternal life. The ten commandments, Thou shalt, and Thou shalt not, are ten promises, assured to us if we render obedience to the law governing the universe. “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). Here is the sum and substance of the law of God. The terms of salvation for every son and daughter of Adam are here outlined. . . . That law of ten precepts of the greatest love that can be presented to man is the voice of God from heaven speaking to the soul in promise, “This do, and you will not come under the dominion and control of Satan.” There is not a negative in that law, although it may appear thus. It is DO and Live....

Thought of the Day January 24, 2016 Confederacies will increase in number and power as we draw nearer to the end of time... There needs to be much more of prayer, much more of earnest effort, among professed believers. Prayer, p. 27. Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 23, 2016 To Draw Us To God I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Jer. 31:3. The Lord of life and glory clothed His divinity with humanity to demonstrate to man that God through the gift of Christ would connect us with Him. Without a connection with God no one can possibly be happy. Fallen man is to learn that our Heavenly Father cannot be satisfied until His love embraces the repentant sinner, transformed through the merits of the spotless Lamb of God. The work of all the heavenly intelligences is to this end. Under the command of their General they are to work for the reclaiming of those who by transgression have separated themselves from their Heavenly Father. A plan has been devised whereby the wondrous grace and love of Christ shall stand revealed to the world. In the infinite price paid by the Son of God to ransom man, the love of God is...

Thought of the Day January 23, 2016 Every morning take time to begin your work with prayer. Do not think this wasted time; it is time that will live through eternal ages. Prayer, p. 26 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 22, 2016 Source Of Compassion And Mercy Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Ps. 45:6. Though now He has ascended to the presence of God, and shares the throne of the universe, Jesus has lost none of His compassionate nature. Today, the same tender, sympathizing heart is open to all the woes of humanity. Today the hand that was pierced is reached forth to bless more abundantly His people that are in the world. . . . Through all our trials we have a never-failing Helper. He does not leave us alone to struggle with temptation, to battle with evil, and be finally crushed with burdens and sorrow. Though now He is hidden from mortal sight, the ear of faith can hear His voice saying, Fear not; I am with you. “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore” (Rev. 1:18). Those who put away iniquity from their hearts an...

Thought of the Day January 22, 2016 We must live a twofold life--a life of thought and action, of silent prayer and earnest work. Prayer, p. 25 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 21, 2016 In The Most Holy Place The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab. 2:20. I saw a throne, and on it sat the Father and the Son. I gazed on Jesus’ countenance and admired His lovely person. The Father’s person I could not behold, for a cloud of glorious light covered Him. I asked Jesus if His Father had a form like Himself. He said He had, but I could not behold it, for said He, “If you should once behold the glory of His person, you would cease to exist.” . . . I saw the Father rise from the throne, and in a flaming chariot go into the holy of holies within the veil, and sit down. . . . Then a cloudy chariot, with wheels like flaming fire, surrounded by angels, came to where Jesus was. He stepped into the chariot and was borne to the holiest, where the Father sat. There I beheld Jesus, a great High Priest, standing before the Fathe...

Thought of the Day January 21, 2016 When we feel the least inclined to commune with Jesus, let us pray the most. Prayer, p. 24 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 20, 2016 Blessings Through Obedience I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. Ps. 40:8. What a God is our God! He rules over His kingdom with diligence and care, and He has built a hedge—the Ten Commandments—about His subjects to preserve them from the results of transgression. In requiring obedience to the laws of His kingdom, God gives His people health and happiness, peace and joy. He teaches them that the perfection of character He requires can be attained only by becoming familiar with His Word. The true seeker, who is striving to be like Jesus in word, life, and character, will contemplate his Redeemer and, by beholding, become changed into His image, because he longs and prays for the same disposition and mind that was in Christ Jesus. . . . He longs after God. The history of his Redeemer, the immeasurable sacrifice that He made, becomes full of meanin...

Thought of the Day January 20, 2016 Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than does a spirit of gratitude and praise. Prayer, p. 23. Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 19, 2016 Adopted Sons And Daughters Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Ephesians 1:5, 6 Before the foundations of the earth were laid the covenant was made that all who were obedient, all who should through the abundant grace provided become holy in character and without blame before God by appropriating that grace, should be children of God. We owe everything to grace, free grace, sovereign grace. Grace in the covenant ordained our adoption. Grace in the Saviour effected our redemption, our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Christ. As we fully believe that we are His by adoption, we may have a foretaste of heaven.... We have a nearness to Him, and can hold sweet communion with Him. We obtain distinct v...

Thought of the Day January 19, 2016 Those who will put on the whole armor of God and devote some time every day to meditation and prayer and to the study of the Scriptures will be connected with heaven and will have a saving, transforming influence upon those around them. Prayer, p. 22 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 18, 2016 God With Us They shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. 1:23. From the days of eternity the Lord Jesus Christ was one with the Father; He was “the image of God,” the image of His greatness and majesty, “the outshining of his glory.” It was to manifest this glory that He came to our world. To this sin-darkened earth He came to reveal the light of God’s love—to be “God with us.”. . . Our little world is the lesson book of the universe. God’s wonderful purpose of grace, the mystery of redeeming love, is the theme into which “angels desire to look”, and it will be their study throughout endless ages. Both the redeemed and the unfallen beings will find in the cross of Christ their science and their song. It will be seen that the glory shining in the face of Jesus is the glory of self-sacrifi...

Thought of the Day January 18, 2016 If ever there was a time when every house should be a house of prayer, it is now. Fathers and mothers should often lift up their hearts to God in humble supplication for themselves and their children. Prayer, p. 21 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 17, 2016 The Royal Robe And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Rev. 19:8. The parable of the wedding garment [Matt. 22:1-14] opens before us a lesson of the highest consequence. . . . By the wedding garment in the parable is represented the pure, spotless character which Christ’s true followers will possess. . . . The fine linen, says the Scripture, “is the righteousness of saints.” It is the righteousness of Christ, His own unblemished character, that through faith is imparted to all who receive Him as their personal Saviour. The white robe of innocence was worn by our first parents when they were placed by God in holy Eden. They lived in perfect conformity to the will of God. . . . A beautiful soft light, the light of God, enshrouded the holy pair. . . . But when sin entered, they sever...

Thought of the Day January 17, 2016 Daniel dared not trust to his own moral power. Prayer was to him a necessity. He made God his strength, and the fear of God was continually before him in all the transactions of his life. Prayer, p. 20. Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 16, 2016 Like Yeast The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. Matt. 13:33. In the Saviour’s parable, leaven is used to represent the kingdom of heaven. It illustrates the quickening, assimilating power of the grace of God. . . . The grace of God must be received by the sinner before he can be fitted for the kingdom of glory. All the culture and education which the world can give will fail of making a degraded child of sin a child of heaven. The renewing energy must come from God. . . . As the leaven, when mingled with the meal, works from within outward, so it is by the renewing of the heart that the grace of God works to transform the life. . . . The leaven hidden in the flour works invisibly to bring the whole mass under its leavening process; so the leaven of truth works secretly, silently, steadily, to ...

Thought of the Day January 16, 2016 As the Son of man, [Jesus] prayed to the Father, showing that human nature requires all the divine support which man can obtain that he may be braced for duty and prepared for trial. Prayer, p. 19 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 15, 2016 God's Kingdom in the Heart Behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21. The government under which Jesus lived was corrupt and oppressive; on every hand were crying abuses-extortion, intolerance, and grinding cruelty. Yet the Saviour attempted no civil reforms. He attacked no national abuses, nor condemned the national enemies. He did not interfere with the authority or administration of those in power. He who was our example kept aloof from earthly governments. Not because He was indifferent to the woes of men, but because the remedy did not lie in merely human and external measures. To be efficient, the cure must reach men individually, and must regenerate the heart. Some of the Pharisees had come to Jesus demanding "when the kingdom of God should come" (Luke 17:20). More than three years had passed since John the Baptist gave the message that like a trumpet call h...

Thought of the Day January 15, 2016 The experience of the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane contains a lesson for the Lord's people today. . . . They did not realize the necessity of watchfulness and earnest prayer in order to withstand temptation. Many today are fast asleep, as were the disciples. Prayer, p. 18 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 14, 2016 High Time to Awake! And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Rom. 13:11, 12. The great controversy is nearing its end. Every report of calamity by sea or land is a testimony to the fact that the end of all things is at hand. Wars and rumors of wars declare it. Is there a Christian whose pulse does not beat with quickened action as he anticipates the great events opening before us? The Lord is coming. We hear the footsteps of an approaching God. This knowledge of the nearness of Christ's coming should not be allowed to lose its force, and we become careless and inattentive, and fall into slumber--into an insensibility and indifference to realities. In slumber we ...

Thought of the Day January 14, 2016 Daily prayer is as essential to growth in grace, and even to spiritual life itself, as is temporal food to physical well-being. Prayer, p. 17 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 13, 2016 The Early and the Latter Rain Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. Joel 2:23. There is to be in the churches a wonderful manifestation of the power of God, but it will not move upon those who have not humbled themselves before the Lord, and opened the door of their heart by confession and repentance. In the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God, they will see only something which in their blindness they think dangerous, something which will arouse their fears, and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because the Lord does not work according to their expectations and ideal, they will oppose the work. "Why," they say, "should we not know the Spiri...

Thought of the Day January 13, 2016 As you ask the Lord to help you, honor your Saviour by believing that you do receive His blessing. All power, all wisdom, are at our command. We have only to ask. Prayer, p. 16 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 10, 2016 The Angel of Revelation 18 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. Rev. 18:1. The prophecies in the eighteenth of Revelation will soon be fulfilled. During the proclamation of the third angel's message, "another angel" is to "come down from heaven, having great power," and the earth is to be "lightened with his glory." The Spirit of the Lord will so graciously bless consecrated human instrumentalities that men, women, and children will open their lips in praise and thanksgiving, filling the earth with the knowledge of God, and with His unsurpassed glory, as the waters cover the sea. Those who have held the beginning of their confidence firm unto the end will be wide-awake during the time that the third angel's message is proclaimed with great power. During th...

Thought of the Day January 10, 2016 Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. The eye of faith will discern God very near, and the suppliant may obtain precious evidence of the divine love and care for him. Prayer, p. 15 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Thought of the Day January 9, 2016 If you feel in no danger, and if you offer no prayer for help and strength to resist temptations, you will be sure to go astray; your neglect of duty will be marked in the book of God in heaven, and you will be found wanting in the trying day. Prayer, p. 14 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 9, 2016 The World Against God's People The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. Our people have been regarded as too insignificant to be worthy of notice, but a change will come. The Christian world is now making movements which will necessarily bring commandment-keeping people into prominence. The whole world is to be stirred with enmity against Seventh-day Adventists, because they will not yield homage to the papacy, by honoring Sunday, the institution of this antichristian power. It is the purpose of Satan to cause them to be blotted from the earth, in order that his supremacy of the world may not be disputed. Every position of truth taken by our people will bear the criticism of the greatest minds; the highest of the world's great men will be bro...

Daily Devotional January 8, 2016 National Ruin Follows National Apostasy The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Isa. 24:5. The people of the United States have been a favored people; but when they restrict religious liberty, surrender Protestantism, and give countenance to popery, the measure of their guilt will be full, and "national apostasy" will be registered in the books of heaven. The result of this apostasy will be national ruin. By the decree enforcing the institution of the papacy in violation of the law of God, our nation will disconnect herself fully from righteousness. When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under the influence of this threefold union,...

Thought of the Day January 8, 2016 Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion. Prayer, p. 13 Click here to delete or update your subscription. Recommend this newsletter to others. Click here to invite them!  Tell others on Facebook about this service!

Daily Devotional January 7, 2016 The Beginning of the End Evil on evil! says the Lord the Eternal--it is coming, the hour has come, the hour is striking, and striking at you, the hour and the end! Eze. 7:5, 6, Moffatt. Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that all, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," shall conform to the customs of the church by observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the Creator's rest day demands obedience, and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts. With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whosoever shall trample upon God's law to obey a human enactment, receives the mark of the...