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... trials . So , also , with regard to blessings promised the Israelites . Although God ( Ezekiel xxxvi . ) promises plainly to bless them in divers ways in the latter days , and says , " I the Lord have spoken it and will do it ; " yet it ...
... trials . So , also , with regard to blessings promised the Israelites . Although God ( Ezekiel xxxvi . ) promises plainly to bless them in divers ways in the latter days , and says , " I the Lord have spoken it and will do it ; " yet it ...
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... , mountains of difficulty and trial . But next , look at Elijah's perseverance in prayer . He went on praying all the while his servant kept going and looking for the 66 expected answer . He would not give over . 34 GO AGAIN SEVEN TIMES .
... , mountains of difficulty and trial . But next , look at Elijah's perseverance in prayer . He went on praying all the while his servant kept going and looking for the 66 expected answer . He would not give over . 34 GO AGAIN SEVEN TIMES .
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... trial of our faith that God sees fit to keep us waiting . For so it pleases Him to give many blessings in such a way as does try our faith . As when Naaman must needs go and wash seven times in the river Jordan . As when the gentile ...
... trial of our faith that God sees fit to keep us waiting . For so it pleases Him to give many blessings in such a way as does try our faith . As when Naaman must needs go and wash seven times in the river Jordan . As when the gentile ...
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... trial . We receive His bounteous gifts and are apt to be elated . We need also His corrections to keep us humble . The same mercy that sends the one sends also the others . The same wisdom that apportions the measure of our joys , mixes ...
... trial . We receive His bounteous gifts and are apt to be elated . We need also His corrections to keep us humble . The same mercy that sends the one sends also the others . The same wisdom that apportions the measure of our joys , mixes ...
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... trial of faith . " He shut the door upon them twain , and prayed unto the Lord . " And what faith must there not have been in that one prayer ! What a wrestling with God ! What a pleading with Him , for His name's sake , to exercise His ...
... trial of faith . " He shut the door upon them twain , and prayed unto the Lord . " And what faith must there not have been in that one prayer ! What a wrestling with God ! What a pleading with Him , for His name's sake , to exercise His ...
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Page 149 - My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 41 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to-morrow about this time.
Page 229 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Page 156 - And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
Page 29 - And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel ; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, and said to his servant : " Go up now, look toward the sea.
Page 168 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host : and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Page 219 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace...
Page 285 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 13 - For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Page 288 - Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?