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09/05/2026

Ten Suggestions

Live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
(2 Corinthians 13:11, NIV)

Unless you plan to live on an island or take a vow of silence, you’re going to have to learn how to get along with people. Right? Here are ten suggestions that will help:

1. Guard your tongue. Always say less than you think.

2. Make promises sparingly. Keep them faithfully.

3. Never let an opportunity pass to say a kind word.

4. Be genuinely interested in others; show it by listening and expressing your appreciation.

5. Be cheerful; don’t dwell on your aches and pains. A dozen people in the nearest cemetery would gladly exchange places with you.

6. Keep an open mind; discuss, but don’t argue. Learn to disagree without being disagreeable. Give other people the benefit of the doubt.

7. Discourage gossip. It’s destructive!

8. Be sensitive to the feelings of others. If you do, people will consider you to be wise.

9. Pay no attention to ill-natured remarks about you. Live so that nobody will believe them.

10. Don’t worry about getting credit. Just keep giving your best, and be patient! God keeps records!

TAKE A MOMENT TODAY AND READ THESE TEN SUGGESTIONS OVER AGAIN, ASKING GOD TO MAKE THEM A REALITY IN YOUR LIFE.

Gass, Bob

09/04/2026

GOD’S PROVIDENCE

All things work together for good to those who love God.

ROMANS 8:28

God regularly and consistently takes all that He allows to happen to Christians, even what seems to be the worst, and ultimately turns those events into blessings. That is divine providence at work.
No matter what your situation—happy, prosperous, and easy; or sad, painful, and difficult—through it all, God works to do what is ultimately best and most blessed for you.
In His providence, the Lord uses “all things,” circumstances that are evil and harmful as well as those that are good and helpful, to mold you into the kind of person He wants you to be. When you struggle with life, just remember what God promised the apostle Paul, “‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness’” (2 Cor. 12:9). That pledge is for you as well.

MacArthur, John

09/03/2026

The Deeper Life

For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
—MATTHEW 16:25

The deeper life must be understood to mean a life in the Spirit far in advance of the average and nearer to the New Testament norm…. To enter such a life, seekers must be ready to accept the New Testament without question as the one final authority on spiritual matters. They must be willing to make Christ the one supreme Lord and ruler in their lives. They must surrender their whole being to the destructive power of the cross, to die not only to their sins but to their righteousness as well as to everything in which they formerly prided themselves.
If this should seem like a heavy sacrifice for anyone to make, let it be remembered that Christ is Lord and can make any demands upon us that He chooses, even to the point of requiring that we deny ourselves and bear the cross daily. The mighty anointing of the Holy Spirit that follows will restore to the soul infinitely more than has been taken away. It is a hard way, but a glorious one. Those who have known the sweetness of it will never complain about what they have lost. They will be too well pleased with what they have gained. TRC028, 030

O wonderful Savior, I want to be filled with Your Spirit! Enable me to fully embrace You and follow You with all my strength, that I may experience more of Your goodness. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

09/02/2026

Steady Inward Fire
I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
—Acts 2:18

God dwells in a state of perpetual enthusiasm. He is delighted with all that is good and lovingly concerned about all that is wrong.
He pursues His labors always in a fullness of holy zeal. No wonder the Spirit came at Pentecost as the sound of a rushing mighty wind and sat in tongues of fire on every forehead. In so doing He was acting as one of the Persons of the blessed Godhead.
Whatever else happened at Pentecost, one thing that cannot be missed by the most casual observer was the sudden upsurging of moral enthusiasm.
Those first disciples burned with a steady, inward fire. They were enthusiastic to the point of complete abandon. OGM005–006

With [the disciples’] baptism in the Spirit, their whole demeanor changed. The sadness left their hearts. The minor key left their worship. Their self-imposed righteousness was turned into life in the Spirit. JJJ310

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

09/01/2026

Moving out of Your Comfort Zone
Scripture reading: 1 Peter 1:17–21
Key verse: Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Trials are God’s way of moving you out of your comfort zone and into new and exciting challenges. Instead of adopting a negative view of difficulty, resolve to understand that God will bring good out of your trouble (Rom. 8:32).

Oswald Chambers offers direction for you:
Are you painfully disturbed just now, distracted by the waves and billows of God’s providential permission, and having, as it were, turned over the boulders of your belief, are you still finding no well of peace or joy or comfort; is all barren?

Then look up and receive the undisturbedness of the Lord Jesus. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him. If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything to hide the face of Jesus Christ from you, you are either disturbed, or you have a false security.
… He will be a gracious benediction of peace in and through you … We get disturbed because we have not been considering Him. When one confers with Jesus Christ, the perplexity goes, because He has no perplexity, and our only concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out before Him, and in the face of difficulty, bereavement, and sorrow, hear Him say, “Let not your heart be troubled.”

Dear heavenly Father, help me view trials as Your way of moving me out of my comfort zone and into new and exciting challenges.

Stanley, Charles F.

08/31/2026

Coming Home
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
—John 14:3

Some years ago one of our national Christian brothers from the land of Thailand gave his testimony in my hearing. He told what it had meant in his life and for his future when the missionaries came with the good news of the gospel of Christ.
He described the godly life of one of the early missionaries and then said: “He is in the Father’s house now.”
He told of one of the missionary women and the love of Christ she had displayed, and then said: “She is in the Father’s house now.”
What a vision for a humble Christian who only a generation before had been a pagan, worshiping idols and spirits—and now because of grace and mercy he talks about the Father’s house as though it were just a step away, across the street.
This is the gospel of Christ—the kind of Christianity I believe in. What joy to discover that God is not mad at us and that we are His children.… What a hope that makes it possible for the Lord’s people to lie down quietly when the time comes and whisper, “Father, I am coming home!” EFE050–051

Thank You, Lord, for this incredible truth! And this is the message of hope that we share as we proclaim the gospel! Let us do it joyfully today. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

08/28/2026

We Get Around It

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
—JOHN 13:14

The lordship of Jesus is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to our hymnbook, where all responsibility toward it may be comfortably discharged in a glow of pleasant religious emotion.
The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all its members in every detail of their lives is simply not accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians.
To avoid the necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament, we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We find ways to avoid the sharp point of obedience, comfort carnality, and make the words of Christ of no effect. And the essence of it all is that “Christ simply could not have meant what He said.” Dare we admit that His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by “interpretation”? Dare we confess that even in our public worship, the influence of the Lord is very small? We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere! MWT035

Dear Lord, I have to admit that there have been times when I have conveniently ignored the clear instructions of Your Word. Help me to give someone a cup of cold water—in Your name—today. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

08/27/2026

God’s Final Word

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.
—HEBREWS 1:1–2

We who have admitted Jesus Christ into our lives as Savior and Lord are happy indeed that we did so. In matters of health care, we are familiar with the custom of a “second opinion.” If I go to a doctor and he or she advises me to have surgery, I can leave that office and consult with another specialist about my condition. Concerning our decision to receive Jesus Christ, we surely would have been ill-advised to go out and try to get a second opinion! Jesus Christ is God’s last word to us. There is no other. God has headed up all our help, forgiveness, and blessing in the person of Jesus Christ, the Son.

In our dark day, God has given us Jesus as the Light of the world. Those who refuse Him give themselves over to the outer darkness that will prevail throughout the eternal ages. JMI022-023

Loving Father, I acknowledge that Your Son is Your final Word, Your fullest revelation. Keep me from looking outside Him for meaning and direction in my life. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

08/26/2026

Faith in Which Jesus?
Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
—Psalm 119:137–138

To manipulate the Scriptures so as to make them excuse us, compliment us, and console us is to do despite to the written Word and to reject the Living Word. To believe savingly in Jesus Christ is to believe all He has said about Himself and all that the prophets and apostles have said about Him. Let us beware that the Jesus we “accept” is not one we have created out of the dust of our imagination and formed after our own likeness.
True faith commits us to obedience. “[W]e have received grace and apostleship,” says Paul, “for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name” (Romans 1:5). That dreamy, sentimental faith which ignores the judgments of God against us and listens to the affirmations of the soul is as deadly as cyanide.
That faith which passively accepts all the pleasant texts of the Scriptures while it overlooks or rejects the stern warnings and commandments of those same Scriptures is not the faith of which Christ and His apostles spoke. OGM062

[F]aith is simply that which takes hold of the promise and the fullness of Christ. SI123

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

08/25/2026

FALSE VERSUS
TRUE PROFESSION

What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

JAMES 2:14

A good tree not only can but also will bear good fruit. However, anyone who professes to be a good tree (a Christian) but does not bear the fruit of good works has no part in the body of Jesus Christ. The person who truly professes to be a Christian will be able to echo James’ sentiments, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead…. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works” (James 2:17–18).

MacArthur, John

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