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Daily Encounter: In On It for Friday, September 25, 2026

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: September 25th Morning “Take up the cross.” Mark 10:17-31 Mark 10:17 An inquiry which had been put to him before, but this time it came from one who thought that he had already done all that would entitle him to eternal bliss. The question was not “What is the way of salvation?” but, “How can I merit heaven?” Mark 10:18 The questioner did not know that Jesus was God, and therefore he ought not to have called him good. Mark 10:19 If a man would win heaven by works he must keep these commands and more. Mark 10:20 , Mark 10:21 If he loved God supremely, as the law required, here was a test for him. We are not all called to relinquish our property; but if Jesus bade us do so, and we refused, it would prove that we loved the world better than God, and therefore were very far from keeping the commandments. Mark 10:22 He could not stand the test. He thought that he loved God best, but soon discovered that he did not. Mark 1...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for September 25 “The faith of the Son of God” (Galatians 2:20) Let us learn the secret even of our faith. It is the faith of Christ, springing in our heart and trusting in our trials. So shall we always sing, “The life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Thus looking off unto Jesus, “the Author and Finisher of our faith,” we shall find that instead of struggling to reach the promises of God, we shall lie down upon them in blessed repose and be borne up by them with the faith which is no more our own than the promises upon which it rests. Each new need will find us leaning afresh on Him for the grace to trust and to overcome. Further we see here the true spirit of prayer. It is the Spirit of Christ in us. “In the midst of the church will I sing praises unto thee.” Christ still sings these praises in the trusting heart and lifts our prayers into songs of victory! This is the true spirit of ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for September 25 “The Sacrifice Has Been Accepted ” - Judges 13:23 This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly drawn from ascertained facts. It was not likely that the LORD had revealed to Manoah and his wife that a son would be born to them and yet had it in His heart to destroy them. The wife reasoned well, and we shall do well if we follow her line of argument. The Father has accepted the great sacrifice of Calvary and has declared Himself well pleased therewith; how can He now be pleased to kill us! Why a substitute if the sinner must still perish? The accepted sacrifice of Jesus puts an end to fear. The LORD has shown us our election, our adoption, our union to Christ, our marriage to the Well-beloved: how can He now destroy us? The promises are loaded with blessings, which necessitate our being preserved unto eternal life. It is not possible for the LORD to cast us away and yet fulfill ...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for September 25 Tozer in the Morning GAME OF PIOUS WORDS Do you realize that most men play at religion as they play at games? Religion itself being of all games the one most universally played. The Church has its "fields" and its "rules" and its equipment for playing the game of pious words. It has its devotees, both laymen and professionals, who support the game with their money and encourage it with their presence, but who are no different in life or character from many who take no interest in religion at all. As an athlete uses a ball so do many of us use words: words spoken and words sung, words written and words uttered in prayer. We throw them swiftly across the field; we learn to handle them with dexterity and grace-and gain as our reward the applause of those who have enjoyed the game. In the games men play there are no moral roots. It is a pleasant activity which changes nothing and settles nothing, at last. ...

 Worthy Brief - September 25, 2026 The shepherd who comes looking for you! Luke 15:4-6 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?  And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders, comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’  The miracle involving the leper revealed to us a King who reaches out to those who have been excluded. The parable of the lost sheep shows us an even more touching truth: the Shepherd searches for the one who has wandered. Yeshua (Jesus) told this parable because the religious leaders complained that He was accepting sinners and dining with them (Luke 15:2); they saw the wrong sort of people at the meal. Yeshua, on the other hand, saw lost sheep. That is the point of the parable. The story is not concerned with the sheep's failure but with...