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Daily readings for 01/31/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 31 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 31 of 377 Seek Righteousness, January 31 What Is Our Response? Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6 . If you have a sense of need in your soul, if you hunger and thirst after righteousness, this is an evidence that Christ has wrought upon your heart, in order that He may be sought unto to do for you, through the endowment of the Holy Spirit, those things which it is impossible for you to do for yourself. We need not seek to quench our thirst at shallow streams; for the great f...

Daily readings for 01/30/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 30 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 30 of 377 Lay a True Foundation, January 30 What Is Our Response? According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10, 11 . Those who have trained the mind to delight in spiritual exercises, are the ones who can be translated and not be overwhelmed with the purity and transcendent glory of Heaven. You may have a ...

Daily readings for 01/29/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 29 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 29 of 377 Hold Fast the Word, January 29 What Is Our Response? Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Titus 1:9 . The Lord has often made manifest in His providence that nothing less than revealed truth, the Word of God, can reclaim man from sin or keep him from transgression. That Word which reveals the guilt of sin, has a power upon the human heart to make man right and keep him so. The Lord has said that His Word is to be studied and obeye...

Daily readings for 01/28/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 28 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 28 of 377 The Challenge of a Mighty Work, January 28 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. Isaiah 54:2 . God’s people have a mighty work before them, a work that must continually rise to greater prominence. Our efforts in missionary lines must become far more extensive. A more decided work than has been done must be done prior to the second appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. God’s ...

Daily readings for 01/27/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 27 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 27 of 377 We Must Seek Wisdom, January 27 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. Proverbs 3:13, 14 . Since God is the source of all true knowledge, it is, as we have seen, the first object of education to direct our minds to His own revelation of Himself. Adam and Eve received knowledge through direct communion with God; and they learned of Him through His works. Al...

Daily readings for 01/26/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 26 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 26 of 377 We Are to Point Men to Jesus, January 26 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John 1:29 . There is a great work to be done, and every effort possible must be made to reveal Christ as the sin-pardoning Saviour, Christ as the sin-bearer, Christ as the bright and morning Star; and the Lord will give us favor before the world until our work is done. While the angels hold the four winds, we are to work with all our capabilities. We must bear our message without any delay. We ...

Daily readings for 01/25/2024: With God at Dawn — Day 25 of 377

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With God at Dawn — Day 25 of 377 We Must Have Love for Others, January 25 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. Matthew 22:39 . The law of love calls for the devotion of body, mind, and soul to the service of God and our fellow-men. And this service, while making us a blessing to others, brings the greatest blessing to ourselves. Unselfishness underlies all true development. Through unselfish service we receive the highest culture of every faculty. More and more fully do we become partakers of the divine nature. We are fitted...

Daily readings for 01/24/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 62 of 415 We Must Work Out Our Own Salvation, January 24 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Philippians 2:12, 13 . The Christian life is a battle and a march. But the victory to be gained is not won by human power. The field of conflict is the domain of the heart. The battle which we have to fight—the greatest battle that was ever fought by man—is...

Daily readings for 01/23/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 60 of 414 We Must Fear and Serve the Lord, January 23 What Is God's Purpose for Us? Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. Deuteronomy 10:20 . It is God’s purpose to manifest through His people the principles of His kingdom. That in life and character they may reveal these principles, He desires to separate them from the customs, habits, and practices of the world. He seeks to bring them near to Himself, that He may make known to them His will.... With a mighty ...

Daily readings for 01/22/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 58 of 413 God Hath Chosen Us to Save Us, January 22 What Is God's Purpose for Us? But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 . It is through the sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth that we become laborers together with God. Christ waits for the co-operation of His church. He does not design to add a new element of efficiency to His Word; H...

Daily readings for 01/21/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 56 of 412 We Must Study His Works, January 21 How Can We Know God? For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. Psalm 92:4, 5 . Many are the ways in which God is seeking to make Himself known to us and bring us into communion with Him. Nature speaks to our senses without ceasing. The open heart will be impressed with the love and glory of God as revealed through the works of His hands. The listening ear can hear and understand th...

Daily readings for 01/20/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 54 of 411 The Earth Is Full of His Goodness, January 20 How Can We Know God? He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. Psalm 33:5, 6 . From the stars that in their trackless course through space, follow from age to age their appointed path, down to the minutest atom, the things of nature obey the Creator’s will.... He who upholds the unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, at the same time cares...

Daily readings for 01/19/2024

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With God at Dawn — Day 52 of 410 Taste and See, January 19 How Can We Know God? O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Psalm 34:8 . Thus through faith they will come to know God by an experimental knowledge. They have proved for themselves the reality of His Word, the truth of His promises. They have tasted, and they know that the Lord is good. The beloved John had a knowledge gained through his own experience.... So every one may be able, through his own experience, to “set his seal to this, that God is true.” ...