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Daily Encounter: Never Useless for Wednesday, August 5, 2026

 

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: August 5th Morning “So will I go in unto the king.” Esther 4 To please his favourite, the king had doomed all the Jews to destruction: we can imagine the universal distress which it created. Esther 4:1 , Esther 4:2 He felt as if he had been the cause of the overthrow of his people, since it was for his sake that Haman had determined to massacre every one of them. Esther 4:3 As well they might, since they were all doomed to die by the sword. The Lord’s people were in great jeopardy. Esther 4:9 Evidence of the great danger of her race was supplied to her both by word of mouth and by the copy of the decree which she could read for herself. No one could now help the poor doomed nation but Esther; for her it would be a dangerous task, and she had no great measure of that high all-daring faith which had dwelt in some of her ancestors. Her position as queen, in an alien court, was not one which fostered the highest form of ...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for August 5 “If any man hear My voice and open the door I will come into him and will sup with him and he with Me” (Revelation 3:20) Some of us are starving, and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not give it out. Give out the blessing you have, start larger plans for service and blessing, and you will soon find that the Holy Ghost is before you, and He will “prevent you with the blessings of goodness,” and give you all that He can trust you to give away to others. There is a beautiful fact in nature which has its spiritual parallels. There is no music so heavenly as an Aeolian harp, and the Aeolian harp is nothing but a set of musical cords arranged in harmony, and then left to be touched by the unseen fingers of the wandering winds. And as the breath of heaven floats over the chords, it is said that notes almost divine float out upon the air, as if a choir of angels were wandering around and tou...

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 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for August 5 “Law in the Heart ” - Psalms 37:31 Put the law into the heart, and the whole man is right. This is where the law should be; for then it lies, like the tables of stone in the ark, in the place appointed for it. In the head it puzzles, on the back it burdens, in the heart it upholds. What a choice word is here used, "the law of his God"! When we know the LORD as our own God His law becomes liberty to us. God with us in covenant makes us eager to obey His will and walk in His commands. Is the precept my Father’s precept? Then I delight in it. We are here guaranteed that obedient-hearted man shall be sustained in every step that he takes. He will do that which is right, and he shall therefore do that which is wise. Holy action is always the most prudent, though it may not at the time seem to be so, We are moving along the great highroad of God’s providence and grace when we keep to the way of His la...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for August 5 Tozer in the Morning True Love Among the innocent victims of this effete and degenerate age, there is none so pure and so beautiful as love. Next to the word God with its various forms, there is no word so fair in all the language. Yet it may be said without qualification that this beautiful word has so suffered in the house of its friends as now to be scarcely recognizable. For the great mass of mankind, love has lost its divine meaning. The novelist, the playwright, the psychoanalyst, the writer of popular love songs, have abused this fair being too long. For filthy lucre, they have dragged her through the sewers of the human mind until she appears to the world as no more than a blowzy and bloated strumpet for whom no one any longer has the least trace of respect, the mention of whose name brings no more than a wink or an embarrassed simper. By losing the divine content from the concept of love, modern man now has remai...

 Worthy Brief - August 5, 2026 Stop counting what mercy has already covered! Matthew 18:21-22  Then Peter came to Him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" 22  Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Peter's question is honest. It rises from a heart trying to obey God while still feeling the sting of repeated offense: How often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? In other words — where is the limit? At what point have I done enough? Peter even offers what sounds like a generous number: "Up to seven times?" In the Bible, seven carries the idea of fullness and completion. Peter may have thought he was stretching mercy to its outer edge. Forgive once, yes. Twice, perhaps. But seven? That sounds complete. That sounds mature. Yeshua (Jesus) answers, "Not up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven." He is not handing Pete...