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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

It is natural...for us to trust in ourselves. It is so natural, and so confirmed by the habits of a lifetime, that no ordinary difficulties or perplexities avail to break us of it. It takes all God can do to root up our self-confidence. He must reduce us to despair; He must bring us to such an extremity that the one voice we have in our hearts, the one voice that cries to us wherever we look round for help, is death, death, death. It is out of this despair that the superhuman hope is born. It is out of this abject helplessness that the soul learns to look up with new trust to God… How do most of us attain to any faith in Providence? Is it not by proving, through numberless experiments, that it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps? Is it not by coming, again and again, to the limit of our resources, and being compelled to feel that unless there is a wisdom and a love at work on our behalf, immeasurably wiser and more benign than our own, life is a moral chaos?... Only desperation opens our eyes to God’s love.
James Denney

Believing that further delay would be sinful, some of God’s insignificants and nobodies in particular, but trusting in our Omnipotent God, have decided on certain simple lines, according to the Book of God, to make a definite attempt to render the evangelization of the world an accomplished fact... Too long have we been waiting for one another to begin! The time for waiting is past! The hour of God has struck! In God’s holy name let us arise and build! We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, nambypamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts; we will have a Masculine Holiness, one of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.
C.T. Studd

    • Bible Reading: APR28: I Chronicles 1-3

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    APRIL 28

    The Books of I and II Chronicles tell the same story told in
    Genesis through II Kings, and end at the same point. They are a
    rehearsing of all that has gone on before, with special attention to
    the reign of David, Solomon, and other kings of Judah. I Chronicles
    is much like II Samuel, dealing with the story of David, with the
    first nine chapters dealing with genealogies. These genealogies
    cover the period from Adam to the return of the Jews from captivity.

    The author of I Chronicles could very likely have been Ezra,
    even though we do not know this for certain. The Books of Kings
    differ from the Books of Chronicles in that Kings gives a parallel
    account of the Northern and Southern Kingdoms, while Chronicles
    confines itself to the Southern Kingdom. Chronicles seems to be
    primarily concerned with the Kingdom of David.

    Repetition is very prevalent in I Chronicles, but in God’s
    Holy Word, repetition means importance. We should not neglect this
    part of God’s Word. Even though we might feel the Books of Kings and
    Chronicles are rather dry reading, they contain the story of God’s
    dealing with His people. We will find in them some of the finest
    jewels of Scripture.

    Don’t let Satan rob you of the blessings of these books.
    Read them carefully and be open to God’s Holy Spirit, that He might
    teach you through these chapters.

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