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Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: August 22nd

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: August 22nd Morning “Love your enemies.” Matthew 5:33-48 Matthew 5:37 Does not this forbid every kind of oath, not only profane swearing, but even that which is generally enjoined by civil governments? It would be hard to prove the contrary. Certainly, Christians ought to avoid all such expressions as “upon my honour,” “upon my word,” and the like, for such language goes beyond the “yea and nay” which is allowed them. Men. who swear profanely greatly err when they imagine that thus they secure credence, for every sensible person knows that a man who is accustomed to common swearing is quite able both to lie and to steal. Clean language becomes those who have been washed in the blood of Jesus. The tongue is an index of the health both of soul and body. He who is not pure in word is assuredly not pure in heart, and shall not see the Lord. Matthew 5:38 , Matthew 5:39 Retaliation is not a Christian word, and revenge is o...

Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for August 22

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for August 22 “I the Lord, the first and with the last” (Isaiah 41:4) Thousands of people get stranded after they have embarked on the great voyage of holiness, because they have depended upon the experience rather than on the Author of it. They had supposed that they were thoroughly and permanently delivered from all sin, and in the ecstasy of their first experience they imagine that they shall never again be tried and tempted as before, and when they step out into the actual facts of Christian life and find themselves failing and falling, they are astonished and perplexed, and they conclude that they must have been mistaken in their experience, and so they make a new attempt at the same thing, and again fall, until at last, worn out, with the experiment, they conclude that the experience is a delusion, or, at least, that it was never intended for them, and so they fall back into the old way, and their last state is worse than the first. What me...

Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for August 22

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for August 22 “Wrath to God’s Glory ” - Psalms 76:10 Wicked men will be wrathful. Their anger we must endure as the badge of our calling, the token of our separation from them: if we were of the world, the world would love its own. Our comfort is that the wrath of man shall be made to redound to the glory of God. When in their wrath the wicked crucified the Son of God they were unwittingly fulfilling the divine purpose, and in a thousand cases the willfulness of the ungodly is doing the same. They think themselves free, but like convicts in chains they are unconsciously working out the decrees of the Almighty. The devices of the wicked are overruled for their defeat. They act in a suicidal way and baffle their own plottings. Nothing will come of their wrath which can do us real harm. When they burned the martyrs, the smoke which blew from the stake sickened men of popery more than anything else. Meanwhile, the LORD ha...

Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for August 22

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for August 22 Tozer in the Morning Evangelical Intellectualism and the Spirit's Power There has emerged lately in American Christianity a school of religious thought conceived in intellectual pride and dedicated to the proposition that everything of value in the Christian faith can be reduced to philosophical terms and understood by the human mind. The notion seems to be that anything God can utter we can comprehend, allowing possibly for the need of a little divine aid with the heavier stuff. The brethren who are promoting this movement seem to feel that the trouble with evangelicalism is that it is not scholarly enough, that it cannot state itself in scientific terms. They appear to be chagrined by the chuckles of the learned liberals at the allegedly ignorant fundamentalists and have been needled into an attempt to prove that we evangelicals are not so dumb after all. They hope to make their point by equating Christian theology wit...

Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 22nd August 2026

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 22nd August 2026 August 22 2 Chronicles 32:19-21 19They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the other peoples of the world-the work of men's hands. 20King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to heaven about this. 21And the LORD sent an angel, who annihilated all the fighting men and the leaders and officers in the camp of the Assyrian king. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he went into the temple of his god, some of his sons cut him down with the sword. Assyria was conquering the known world at this time in history. Its forces were unstoppable. They took Egypt and the nations around Judah. Israel had fallen. When they came to Judah, they took the fortified cities to the south. Archeologists have found pottery shards on which notes were written during the fall of Lachish and Azekah. There are still great murals in existence of the siege of Lachish by Assyria. But when they rea...

Proverbs 12:13 — Daily Wisdom for Saturday, August 22, 2026

Proverbs 12:13 — Daily Wisdom for Saturday, August 22, 2026

'All My Thoughts' (Passion for Praise)

'All My Thoughts' (Passion for Praise)

'Entrusted with Faith' — 2 Timothy 1:11-14 (Praying with Paul)

'Entrusted with Faith' — 2 Timothy 1:11-14 (Praying with Paul)

Quotemeal for Saturday, August 22, 2026

Quotemeal for Saturday, August 22, 2026

"Spiritual Widows" — 1 Timothy 5:3, 9-10 (Together in Christ)

"Spiritual Widows" — 1 Timothy 5:3, 9-10 (Together in Christ)