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31/03/2026

See you this Sunday and let us remember and celebrate the RESURRECTION of the Lord Jesus Christ!

“Christ was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification; and therein did God give the highest evidence that satisfaction was made unto his justice.”
— The Doctrine of Justification by Faith, in Works of John Owen, Vol. 5 (Banner of Truth edition), p. 260

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27/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 28

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez. - 1 Chr 4:10 (BSB)

A coast is a boundary line, like the border of one land from another, or the edge of a country where it meets the sea. Every person who has been made spiritually alive has their own coast—a personal territory of inward experience set by the Holy Spirit within their conscience. Just as the Lord divided the tribes of Israel, giving them their inheritance by drawing lines (Psalm 78:55), He has done the same for each of His people, assigning them their portion of spiritual experience (Isaiah 34:17). This is like a tether, keeping each soul grounded within the boundaries God has given. Within these limits, they walk, feed, and rest. It is "the food convenient for him," the patch of pasture assigned to him. He cannot, and does not dare, to go beyond these limits, as doing so would strain and injure his sensitive conscience. Every attempt to boast in things beyond his measure, to take credit for experiences that are not his, cuts into and wounds this tender conscience.

But a person who is spiritually alive can't help but long for their coast to be expanded. They yearn for more light, more life, more feeling, more freedom, more knowledge of God in Christ, more faith, hope, and love. They want their narrow, confined heart to be enlarged—in prayer, in meditation, in communion with God, and in love for His people.

They're not content with the small amount of spiritual nourishment they’ve been given; they long for a greater measure of heavenly teaching. They desire more confidence as children of God, more access to Him, and more freedom from the fear that brings torment. “God will enlarge Japheth, and he will live in the tents of Shem” (Genesis 9:27). “I will run in the path of Your commands, for You have set my heart free” (Psalm 119:32).

God had promised Israel that He would enlarge their borders and give them all the land promised to their ancestors. That’s why, after telling them to “Sing, O barren one, who has not borne children,” He adds, “Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch out your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes” (Isaiah 54:1-2).

Do you have these deep desires for more light, love, and freedom, so that the world, pride, lust, unbelief, greed, and carnality won’t close off your heart? Do you long to know the love of Christ, which surpasses all knowledge, and to be filled with all the fullness of God? These are good desires, very different from arrogantly pushing forward and talking about freedom while still being a slave to sin. It’s one thing to look through the gates of a park and long to enjoy the estate inside, and another to break in and trespass. To look at a chest isn’t the same as owning the treasure inside, but it’s better to wait and ask for the key than to force it open and steal. Those who walk the narrow path between laziness and arrogance will, like Jabez, cry out in their hearts, “Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my territory!”

https://www.youdevotion.com/blessings/february/28

26/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 27

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez. - 1 Chr 4:10 (BSB)

An “indeed” blessing is what the soul seeks when it has truly felt the misery of sin and tasted the sweetness of God’s salvation. These “indeed” blessings are spiritual and eternal. In contrast, the soul sees how vain and empty all earthly things are—mere toys, passing shadows, and dreams. It marvels at the folly of people chasing after these fleeting shows, wasting their lives in pursuits that lead only to misery and destruction. Every funeral bell, every sight of a coffin being carried to the grave, impresses upon the soul the solemn truth of the state of those who live and die in their sins.

In this way, the soul learns to contrast time with eternity, earth with heaven, sinners with saints, and professors with true possessors of faith. Like Baruch, it learns not to “seek great things” for itself but to seek real things—things that will outlast time and prepare it for eternity. It cares less and less for the opinions of men, desiring only the things that bear God’s approval: a tender conscience, a broken heart, a contrite spirit, a humble mind, separation from the world, submission to God’s will, meek endurance of the cross, and conformity to Christ’s suffering image.

As the Lord reveals Himself to the soul, shedding abroad a sense of His goodness, mercy, and dying love, the soul longs more and more for the manifestation of the blessings that are found only in Him. These blessings are not like the temporary mercies we enjoy in this life, which perish in the using. They are eternal and irrevocable. Once given, they can never be taken away. They are pledges and foretastes of eternal joys.

Just as Isaac could not take back the blessing he gave to Jacob, saying to Esau, “I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed,” so too, when the Lord blesses His people with spiritual blessings from His fullness, those blessings are unchangeable because they are rooted in the nature of God Himself—“the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

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25/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 26

The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor. - Matt 11:5 (BSB)

“The dead are raised up.” These “dead” are those who by nature are dead in sin. They are raised up when God’s life-giving power visits their souls. They are raised up to faith in Jesus, raised up to hope in His name, raised up to a sense of His dying love, raised up from doubt and fear, and raised up from the depths of despair to look unto Him and be saved. What a mercy it is that the Lord of life and glory still exercises the same power in the hearts of His people that He once did in their physical bodies, raising them from spiritual death to life!

How often do we feel so dead, as if there isn’t a trace of God’s grace in us? So dead, it seems impossible to feel any spiritual life again? So dead, we begin to doubt whether we ever truly experienced God’s power in our hearts? Yet the Lord raises life within us, just as He called Lazarus from the tomb. Every upward lifting of the heart toward Him, every desire to know Him, every affection, sigh, cry, and groan toward Him is proof that the Lord of life and glory is still putting forth His power in the hearts of His people.

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24/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 25

This is a trustworthy saying: If we died with Him, we will also live with Him; if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us; - 2 Tim 2:11-12 (BSB)

To share in Christ’s crown, we must also share in His cross. Union with Him in suffering must come before union with Him in glory. The Holy Spirit makes this clear: “If we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified with Him.” We must be crucified to the flesh and the world, and the world to us, and this can only happen through a living union with our crucified Lord. This is why Paul could say, “I am crucified with Christ—yet I live; not I, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” And again, “God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.”

Paul’s personal experience of crucifixion with Christ made him preach the cross, not just as a means of salvation, but as a means of sanctification. Through the cross—through union and communion with the One who suffered upon it—there is a fountain opened for both sin and uncleanness (Zechariah 13:1). Blood and water gushed from Jesus’ side when pierced by the spear, as the old hymn says:

“This fountain so dear, he’ll freely impart;
Unlocked by the spear, it gushed from his heart,
With blood and with water; the first to atone,
To cleanse us the latter; the fountain’s but one.”

David said, “All my springs are in you,” and we can echo his words. All our springs—whether of pardon, peace, acceptance, justification, happiness, holiness, wisdom, strength, victory over the world, or mortification of sin—are found in a crucified Lord. Every fresh revival of hope, every prayer and praise, every gracious feeling and desire, every godly sorrow for sin—all flow from this life that is hidden with Christ in God. Christ crucified is, to those who are saved, the power of God. At the cross, we are made wise unto salvation, righteous by justification, sanctified by His Spirit, and redeemed from sin, Satan, death, and hell.

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23/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 24

Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown. - Jer 2:2 (BSB)

Salvation is a gift—one of the choicest and richest gifts that a Triune God, whose very name is Love, can bestow. It is a portion, an inheritance, a treasure, and an eternal reality. Though the full possession, complete enjoyment, and total acquisition of this predestined weight of glory are reserved for a future state, the pledges, the firstfruits, the early clusters, and the first dewdrops of this eternal inheritance are given to the elect while they are still on earth.

In Scripture, the everlasting joy of Christ’s presence and glory is often compared to a wedding. Revelation 19:7 speaks of “the Lamb’s wife” and “the marriage of the Lamb.” Similarly, the Church is said to be “brought to the King in clothing of needlework,” just as the bride in Eastern traditions was brought by her father to the bridegroom. Yet, before the marriage celebration, there was an espousal period. As it says in Jeremiah, “I remember the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals.” Paul also says, “I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” Even Joseph was “espoused to the virgin Mary before they came together.” Espousal, though it had the nature of marriage, was not the same as marriage. The couple did not yet live together, nor did they possess one another.

So it is with the spiritual life. In this life, we experience a spiritual betrothal, but the spiritual marriage will take place in the life to come. “I will betroth you to me in righteousness and judgment, in loving-kindness and mercies. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord” (Hosea 2:19-20).

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22/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 23

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, - Heb 2:14 (BSB)

Through His sufferings, bloodshed, and death, our gracious Lord did more than just make complete atonement for sin, fulfill the demands of the law, and wash His people from all their iniquities in His precious blood. He also brought in an everlasting righteousness for their justification, and by His death, He destroyed the one who had the power of death—the devil. It was through the cross that our Lord “disarmed the powers and authorities, making a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

It is often overlooked, but of great importance, that Jesus had to personally grapple with and overcome the devil. He had to dethrone Satan, destroy his works, and overthrow his kingdom. But He did not do this through an act of omnipotent power, for “He was crucified in weakness.”

We might think that God could have overthrown Satan by a mere act of power, but that wasn’t His way. In His infinite wisdom, God chose to dethrone Satan through an act of the deepest humility, submission, and suffering by His own beloved Son, who stood in the place of those whom Satan and death had enslaved through sin. The Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, to undo all that Satan had done by repairing the damage caused by sin through His holy obedience and, ultimately, to destroy Satan himself.

Through Christ’s weakness on the cross, He defeated the power of darkness, untied the knots of sin that Satan had bound, and established victory over the enemy.

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21/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 22

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. - John 15:26 (BSB)

The Holy Spirit’s special work is to testify of Jesus, to glorify Him, to take the things that belong to Christ and show them to the soul. Without the teachings and testimonies of the Holy Spirit, we cannot have any true or saving knowledge of Christ. Without the Spirit, we cannot have living faith in Christ, sweet communion with Him, or tender and affectionate love toward Him. These are the marks that distinguish the living family of God from those who are spiritually dead.

A mere intellectual knowledge of the truth cannot stir the soul with the gracious affections that warm, soften, and melt the heart of a child of God under the influence of the Holy Spirit. It cannot produce the kind of faith that creates a real union with Jesus or inspire the kind of hope that directs every desire within the veil. It cannot create the kind of godly sorrow for sin that leads a person to loathe and despise themselves in repentance, nor can it shed abroad the kind of love that causes a person to love the Lord with a pure heart.

The same blessed Holy Spirit who reveals Christ to the soul also prepares the heart to receive Him in all His gracious roles and covenant relationships. He does this by powerfully convincing us of our need for Christ to be everything to us.

Is Christ a Priest? We need His atoning blood and intercession to have peace with God and for our prayers to be accepted.

Is Christ a Prophet? We need His heavenly instruction so we can sit at His feet, believe His promises, and obey His commands.

Is Christ a King? We need His powerful rule to subdue every enemy, calm every fear, defeat every lust, crucify our sinful nature, and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

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20/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 21

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand. - Deut 32:39 (BSB)

The work of grace, from its very beginnings, pe*****tes deeply into the soul. It wounds and lays open the conscience before the eyes of an infinitely pure and holy God. As the Scripture says, “The entrance of your word gives light.” God’s word is “living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

True conviction must be thorough. The field of the heart must be plowed and broken up before the seed can find a home to grow. There is much work to be done in a sinner’s heart before Christ can dwell there by faith or be formed in him as the hope of glory. The heart is naturally hard, full of pride and lust, overgrown with the weeds of self-righteousness and reliance on the flesh. These must be cleared away before we are ready to receive a free grace salvation, to be separated from the world and false professions, to be made bitter toward the things of time and sense, and to be brought to seek mercy at the foot of the cross.

Conviction, then, must go deep or at least be thorough in order to make room for Christ and His salvation. So it is with any revelation of Christ or application of His blood, any visitation of His presence, or any experience of His love. These divine realities do not stay on the surface but pe*****te deep into the soul, into the innermost being. How easily is everything else forgotten, but what the Holy Spirit Himself writes in the heart remains. People might say, “How well we’ve heard!” but all is forgotten before they’ve even left the house of prayer. They read a chapter, close the Bible, and with it, all they’ve read is closed too. Many experience brief pangs of conviction or passing desires but show little evidence of living under the Spirit’s anointing. The Holy Spirit does not let God’s children off so easily. He holds them fast to the work of conviction until they are utterly slain. And when He blesses, He heals as deeply as He wounds, revealing the gospel with the same power by which He applied the law.

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19/02/2026

Daily Blessings

February 20

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. - 2 Cor 3:17 (BSB)

The gospel is “the perfect law of liberty,” and in being perfect, it is entirely free from any trace of bo***ge or servitude. It is this perfect freedom that distinguishes the gospel from the law, which “works wrath” and “produces bo***ge.” The gospel provides freedom from sin—freedom from its guilt, as we have “our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience;” freedom from its filth, through “the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit;” freedom from its love, by “the love of God poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit;” freedom from its dominion, as “we are no longer under the law but under grace;” and freedom from its practice, as we become “servants of God, with our fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.”

How, then, can anyone accuse this pure, holy gospel of leading to licentiousness? It is because some, who have never experienced its power and precious liberty, do as the Galatians did—trying to “frustrate the grace of God” by turning back to the weak and beggarly elements of bo***ge. Others, like the wicked ones denounced by Jude and Peter, pervert and abuse the liberty of the gospel, turning it into licentiousness, “sporting themselves with their own deceivings,” and, while promising others freedom, are themselves enslaved by corruption.

The gospel’s liberty, as revealed in Scripture and made known in the soul, avoids both extremes. It is perfectly free from both legal bo***ge and the taint of licentiousness. This holy liberty, filled with heavenly power and gracious influence, is what makes the gospel so fitting for our condition when we are first convicted of sin, cast into the prison of guilt and condemnation.

Only a complete release can deliver us from being prisoners, shut up under God’s wrath and fear of condemnation. This gospel message comes to us as pure mercy, revealing pardon and peace through the blood of Christ. When we embrace it by grace, it proclaims liberty like a jubilee trumpet through every corner of our soul.

Before we heard this precious gospel, we were slaves to sin, living to fulfill various lusts and desires, captive to Satan’s will. We thought we were free, and that the saints were the ones enslaved. But in truth, we were in bo***ge, while they were truly free, for they had an interest in the words of Jesus: “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

https://www.youdevotion.com/blessings/february/20

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