Thirteenth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:51:41 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

All-Sided Guidance ‘And guided them on every side.’—2 Chron. xxxii. 22. SEE the completeness of Jehovah’s guidance! It is so different from human guidance. How seldom we feel that a human counsellor has seen our difficulty from every point of view, balanced all its bearings, and given guidance which will meet all contingencies, and be [...]

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Twelfth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:22:46 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

The Strength-Giving Look * And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might.’—Judges vi. 14. FOR the might of a look of the Lord is enough r for anything! Only, we must meet His look; our eyes must be ever toward the Lord,1 and then we shall not miss it: for [...]

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Eleventh Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:23:33 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

Fear Not ‘Fear not.’—Luke xii. 32, etc. THERE need be no difficulty in distinguishing between the holy and blessed ‘fear of the Lord,’1 which is our ‘ treasure,’ and which is only as the sacred shadow cast by the brightest light of love and joy, and the fear which ‘hath torment,” and is cast out [...]

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Tenth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:09:22 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

Trusting in Darkness ‘Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay himself upon His God.’—ISA. 1. 10. BEFORE we take this peace and strength-giving precept, with its enfolded promise, [...]

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Ninth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:03 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

The Privilege of Intercession ‘Pray one for another.’—Jas. v. 16. HERE our divine Master takes up an impulse of natural affection,* raising it to the dignity of a ‘royal commandment,’6 and broadening it to the measure of His own perpetual intercession.* For, unless a heart has reached the terrible hardening of being ‘without natural affection” [...]

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Eighth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:55:18 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

The Conditions of Effectual Prayer ‘And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.’—Matt. xxi. 22. HAVE we not sometimes been tempted to think that here, at least, is a case in which our Lord has not literally and always kept His word? in which we do not get quite so [...]

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Seventh Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:48:33 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

The Recall ‘O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.’—Hos. xiv. I. THANK God that He does not let His children go on comfortably when they wander and fall !3 Have we not known (God grant we may never again know!) a wretched mental nausea, a sense of [...]

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Sixth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:45 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

The Transferred Burden ‘If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live ?’—Ezrk. xxxiii. 10. IF they are upon us, how can we live? For ‘mine iniquities are . . . as an heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.’1 ‘The burden of [...]

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Amazing Faith of a Godly Mother by Zac Poonen

womenof7 — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:59:26 +0000

Categories: Articles, Mothers, Zac Poonen

We read in 2 Kings 4:8-37 of a woman – a prominent, rich, wealthy and influential woman – who was also blessed by Elisha’s ministry. God does not choose only the poor and the illiterate and the uneducated to bless. He has no partiality. He chose an illiterate Peter, but He also chose a highly [...]

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Fifth Day – Royal Commandments – by Francis R. Havergal

womenof7 — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:58 +0000

Categories: My King and His Service, Royal Commandments

Mental Food ‘Eat ye that which is good.’—IsA. lv. 2. ‘QO foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee,’3 or this commandment would not have been needed. Good, wholesome, delicious food set plentifully before us, and yet we have to be told to eat that which is good, and to let [...]

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