[b]October 24[/b]
[i]Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. - Hebrews 12:6[/i]

Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of heaven, nor are sorrow and care any makr of God's disfavor. God's love is robust, true, and eager-not for our comfort, but for our lasting blessedness. It is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to bear misrepresentation and rebuke in its attempts to attune our spirits to higher music. It comes instructing us. Let us enter ourselves as pupils in the school of God's love. Let us lay aside our own notions of the course of study; let us submit ourselves to be led and taught; let us be prepared for any lessions that may be given from the blackboard of sorrow; let us be assured of the inexhaustible tenacity of His love as to dare to trust Him, through He slay us. And let us look forward to that august moment when He will give us a reason for all life's discipline, with a smile that shall thrill our souls with ecstasy and constrain sorrow and sighing to flee away forever. - F.B. Meyer

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[b]October 25[/b]
[i]I [Daniel] was left alone, and saw this great vision. - Daniel 10:8[/i]

Solitude is teh antechamber of God; only one step more and you can be in His immediate presence. - Landor

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[b]October 26[/b]
[i]Flee into Egypt. - Matthew 2:13[/i]

Why? Because there is a cruel king who will seek the young child's life.
Is Christ born in you? Is your life like that manager-precious as a casket, because of what it holds? Then have a care; for, craftier and more unscrupulous than Herod, the destroyer of souls will seek to destroy you. There is a day coming when they shall say, "They are dead which sought the young child's life." Grace shall survive the foe, and we shall yet return to enjoy the comforts of life, with no Herod to threaten us. After all, it is sin which is short-lived, for goodness shall flourish when the evil one is chained up forever. - Thomas Champness

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[b]October 27[/b]
[i]Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. - Revelation 2:10[/i]

There is a heaven at the end of every faithful Christian's journey. -Cuyler

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[b]October 28[/b]
[i]The Lord set a mark upon Cain. - Genesis 4:15[/i]

We speak of the mark of Cain as if it was a mark of a curse. In reality it was the mark of God's mercy, a defense against his enemies. - D.J. Burrell

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[b]October 29[/b]
[i]Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. -MAtthew 5:16[/i]

They say the world has an eagle eye for anything inconsistent, an eye sharp to discover the bagaries and inconsistencies in the faulty and the unworthy. It has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the sun, and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before the purity of noon. Let your light so shine before men that others, awed and charmed by the consistency of your godly life, may come to enquire and to say that you have been with Jesus. - Punshon

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[b]October 30[/b]
[i]Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. -John 16:23[/i]

Prayer maust be based upon promise, but, thank God, His promises are always broader than our prayers! No fear of building inverted pyramids here, for Jesus Christ is the foundation. - Frances Ridley Havergal

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[b]October 31[/b]
[i]Continue in prayer. - Colossians 4:2[/i]

Our prayers often resemble the mischievous tricks of town children, who knock at their neighbor's houses and then run away; we often knock at heaven's door and then run off into the spirit of the world. Instead of waiting for entrance to be granted, we act as if we were afraid of having our prayers answered. - Williams

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