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 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: August 14th Morning “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” Matthew 2:1-18 Matthew 2:1-2 They had seen a bright particular star, which tradition connected with the birth of a great king. The wise men missed their way, and went to Jerusalem; the shepherds did not. The wise are often less able to find Jesus than the poor and simple. Matthew 2:3-6 Thus by means of a cruel enemy the Lord obtained a grand public testimony from all the great teachers of the Jews that Messiah was to be born at Bethlehem, and by this means it was noised abroad that a star had appeared, and strangers had come from far to see the newly-born king of the Jews. Truly, God glorifies his Son even by his foes. Matthew 2:9-11 True faith is not disappointed at the lowliness of the Saviour. Though the wise men found Jesus in a mean abode, they discerned his majesty, and adored him with offerings suitable to a prophet, priest, and king. Matth...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer  Devotional for August 14 Tozer in the Morning The Chapter after the Last Matthew says, "And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb." Mark says, "And he [Joseph] bought fine linen, and took him [Jesus] down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock." Luke writes, "And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid." John says, ". . . There was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, . . . There laid they Jesus." They all agree: Jesus was dead. The life about which they had been writing was gone, The biography was ended. Then for the only time in this history of human thought, a biographer adds to his book a new section which is authentic biography and begins to write a chapter to follow the last chapter. This time the story did ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for August 14 “Child Chastisement Not Forever ”  - 1 Kings 11:39 In the family of grace there is discipline, and that discipline is severe enough to make it an evil and a bitter thing to sin. Solomon, turned aside by his foreign wives, had set up other gods and grievously provoked the God of his father; therefore, ten parts out of twelve of the kingdom were rent away and set up as a rival state. This was a sore affliction to the house of David, and it came upon that dynasty distinctly from the hand of God, as the result of unholy conduct. The LORD will chasten His best beloved servants if they cease from full obedience to His laws: perhaps at this very hour such chastening is upon us. Let us humbly cry, "O LORD, show me wherefore thou contendest with me."  What a sweet saving clause is that -- "but not for ever"! The punishment of sin is everlasting, but the fatherly chastisement of it in a child o...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for August 14 “Touch not Mine anointed, and do My prophets no harm” (Psalms 105:15) I would rather play with the forked lightning, or take in my hands living wires, with their fiery current, than speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies. You may often wonder, perhaps, why your sickness is not healed, your spirit filled with the joy of the Holy Ghost, or your life blessed and prosperous. It may be that some dart which you have flung with angry voice, or in an idle hour of thoughtless gossip, is pursuing you on its way, as it describes the circle which always bring back to the source from which it came every shaft of bitterness, and every idle and evil word. Let us remember that when we persecute or hurt the children of God, we are but persecuting Him, and hurting ourselves far more. Lord, make me as sensiti...

 Worthy Brief - August 14, 2026  Guard the eye that guide the heart! Matthew 6:22–23 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Yeshua (Jesus) has just spoken of treasure -- telling His disciples not to store treasure on earth, where moth, rust, and thieves take it, but to lay it up in heaven, “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” He does not change subjects when He turns to the eye. He is still tracing what the heart treasures, and how that treasure surfaces. The eye is the doorway of desire -- the part of us that looks, considers, wants, envies, judges, covets, pursues. What the eye fixes on reveals what the heart already holds. A heart drawn to earthly treasure trains the eye to keep searching -- for more possessions, more status, more approval, more...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 14th August 2026 August 14 2 Chronicles 24:2,5-6 2Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years of Jehoiada the priest... 5He called together the priests and Levites and said to them, "Go to the towns of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the temple of your God. Do it now." But the Levites did not act at once. 6Therefore the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, "Why haven't you required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?" It was really Jehoiada's love for God and faith in His promises that motivated him to risk his life to see that the throne was restored to the lineage of David. Being Joash's surrogate father, he had a great deal of influence on the king. Our passage today indicates that his influence kept Joash obedient to God as...

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