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 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 21st Morning “It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.” 2 Chronicles 24:2 , 2 Chronicles 24:15-25 2 Chronicles 24:2 But he had never acted from love to God; what he had done was out of complaisance to Jehoiada, who had helped him to the crown. The religious party had set him up, and therefore so long as they were in power he held with them, but when the idolatrous faction became strong he went over to their side. He who is blown one way by the wind will turn to another quarter if the wind changes. How important to possess deep-seated principles. 2 Chronicles 24:15-17 No doubt the princes congratulated Joash upon his deliverance from the oversight of the aged priest, and “now,” said they, “let us leave the dull and severe religion of Jehovah for the gay and pleasurable worship of the idols. We have had enough of this Puritanism, let us fall in with the ways of other nations, and enjoy the fest...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 21 Tozer in the Morning Faith Grows with Use It was a saying of George Mueller that faith grows with use. If we would have great faith we must begin to use the little faith we already have. Put it to work by reverent and faithful praying, and it will grow and become stronger day by day. Dare today to trust God for something small and ordinary and next week or next year you may be able to trust Him for answers bordering on the miraculous. Everyone has some faith, said Mueller; the difference among us is one of degree only, and the man of small faith may be simply the one who has not dared to exercise the little faith he has. According to the Bible, we have because we ask, or we have not because we ask not. It does not take much wisdom to discover our next move. Is it not to pray, and pray again and again till the answer comes? God waits to be invited to display His power in behalf of His people. The world situation is such tha...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 21 “A Woman’s War ”  - Judges 4:9 Rather an unusual text, but there may be souls in the world that may have faith enough to grasp it. Barak, the man, though called to the war, had little stomach for the fight unless Deborah would go with him, and so the LORD determined to make it a woman’s war. By this means He rebuked the slackness of the man, gained for Himself the more renown, and cast the more shame upon the enemies of His people.  The LORD can still use feeble instrumentalities. Why not me? He may use persons who are not commonly called to great public engagements. Why not you? The woman who slew the enemy of Israel was no Amazon but a wife who tarried in her tent. She was no orator but a woman who milked the cows and made butter. May not the LORD use any one of us to accomplish His purpose? Somebody may come to the house today, even as Sisera came to Jael’s tent. Be it ours not to slay him, but to save ...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 21 “God hath set some in the church ... helps” (1 Corinthians 12:28) In the apostle’s lists of officers in the church the “helps” are mentioned before the “governments.” By the ministry of prayer, by the ministry of giving, by the ministry of encouragement, by the shining face and mute pressure of the hand, and a little word of cheer, and by the countless ways in which we can help, or at least can keep from hindering, we can all find still the footprints of Aquila and Priscilla, if we want to follow them. It is a great grace to be able to rejoice in another’s work and pour our lives, like affluent rivers, into great streams. But God knows whence every drop has come, and in the greater day of recompense many of the helps shall have the chief reward. Beloved, are you helping? Are you helping your pastor, your brother, your husband, your mother, your fellow-worker, and when the harvest comes shall he that soweth and he that reapeth rejoice ...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 21st June June 21 1 Kings 18:17-18 17When he saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" 18"I have not made trouble for Israel," Elijah replied. "But you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the Lord's commands and have followed the Baals. Elijah has been in hiding for three years. Wicked king Ahab searched the nations for him. The drought was so severe that it was destroying the kingdom. When God sent Elijah to meet with the king, the king called him, "the troubler of Israel." Amazing how the world sees the saint as the evil one. There is a cry in some societies today against "the intolerant Christians." There will always be a cry against the righteous who stand for integrity and truth. If you represent the LORD, and hold Him as the standard, the world will hate you and blame you for the troubles that stem from the judgments of God. Elijah had come to bring the mer...

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 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 20th Morning “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” 2 Kings 11:1-4 , 2 Kings 11:10-18 , 2 Kings 11:20 2 Kings 11:1 Like a true descendant of Ahab, she stopped at nothing which could promote her own ambition. Well might she be called “Athaliah that wicked woman.” The seed of David was almost destroyed by her, but the Lord interposed, for the sceptre could not depart from Judah until Messiah came. The covenant promise to David was bound up in a single life, but it did not fail. 2 Kings 11:2 , 2 Kings 11:3 Athaliah was not likely to go to the Lord’s house to find the child, for she seldom troubled that sacred place. David had lovingly cared for God’s house, and now the Lord shelters the hope of his servant’s race in the chambers of the temple. 2 Kings 11:4 These he appointed to act as a body-guard to the king, when he should be brought forth publicly to be crowned. Matthew Henry remarks that Jehoiada w...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 20 Tozer in the Morning Walking in Truth Any man who would escape the heavy tax which humankind lays upon the righteous must make a satisfactory compromise with error. This is so because sin has perverted the nature of things. He that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey is as true now as when it was first uttered. Little as we like to admit it, two thousand years of Christianity have not made much difference. The human race is still cursed with what Bacon called a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. Nevertheless the hazards of truth should not count in our final tally. Truth is such a royal patron that we should embrace it without regard to cost. The cautious calculator, who tinkers with truth for fear of consequences, is no worthy servant of such a noble master. We Christians above all people should value truth, for we profess to belong to the One who is the Truth. The Stoics who had no access to the Scriptu...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 20 “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called” (1 Corinthians 7:20) O ye who complain about your calling or fret about the changes and trials of life, how do you know but that these very changes are the divine methods by which God’s purposes of blessing and usefulness concerning you be fulfilled? Had Aquila not been compelled to leave Rome and break up his home and business, he would probably have never met with Paul, and been called to the knowledge and service of Christ through this providential meeting. Had he not been a working man, and pursuing his ordinary avocation he would not have been brought into contact with the apostle. It was in the line of their calling, their common duties, and the providential changes of their life that God called them. And so He meets us. Do not try hard to run away from it, but, as the apostle has so finely put it, “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he is called, let h...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 20 “The LORD Our Companion ”  - Psalms 23:4 Sweet are these words in describing a deathbed assurance. How many have repeated them in their last hours with intense delight!  But the verse is equally applicable to agonies of spirit in the midst of life. Some of us, like Paul, die daily through a tendency to gloom of soul. Bunyan puts the Valley of the Shadow of Death far earlier in the pilgrimage than the river which rolls at the foot of the celestial hills. We have some of us traversed the dark and dreadful defile of "the shadow of death" several times, and we can bear witness that the LORD alone enabled us to bear up amid its wild thought, its mysterious horrors, its terrible depressions. The LORD has sustained us and kept us above all real fear of evil, even when our spirit has been overwhelmed. We have been pressed and oppressed, but yet we have lived, for we have felt the presence of the Great Sh...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 20th June 2026 June 20 1 Kings 17:14-15 14For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD gives rain on the land.'" 15She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. Once the Kerith Ravine dried up, the Lord sent Elijah to the home of a Gentile woman. If you thought ravens were stingy, try humans. But a few verses earlier the LORD said He had commanded her to feed Elijah. Elijah gave her a real test of faith by asking her to feed him first and then cook her and her son a meal from the little left in her jar. If the LORD had not commanded her to do this, I doubt she would have even considered it. Even though there was a promise that a miracle would happen, consider that this woman is not Jewish. The prophet before her had been camping out in a ravine for months. Who would ...

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 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 19th Morning “The Lord is known by the judgment which He executeth.” 2 Kings 9:1-7 , 2 Kings 9:14 , 2 Kings 9:21-26 , 2 Kings 9:30-37 2 Kings 9:1-3 He was not to wait for fee or reward. Those who do the Lord’s business must not be loiterers or saunterers. God’s angels fly swiftly, and God’s prophets must go on his errands with speed. 2 Kings 9:14 He was probably the commander-in-chief and it was no new thing in the history of Israel for such persons to dethrone the monarch. 2 Kings 9:14 Therefore he had left Jehu in command in Ramoth-gilead, and Jehu, having revolted, hastened with all his cavalry to Jezreel, to attack Joram, who lay there sick of wounds received in battle. When Jehu was perceived by the watchmen on the walls of the palace, the king sent messengers who at once deserted to Jehu’s side. The king therefore resolved to confront his rebellious captain, but it was a foolhardy action, and ended in his ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 19 “A Sound Heart ”  - Psalms 119:80 We may regard this inspired prayer as containing within itself the assurance that those who keep close to the Word of God shall never have cause to be ashamed of doing so.  See, the prayer is for soundness of heart. A sound creed is good, a sound judgment concerning it is better, but a sound heart toward the truth is best of all. We must love the truth, feel the truth, and obey the truth, otherwise we are not truly sound in God’s statutes. Are there many in these evil days who are sound? Oh, that the writer and the reader may be two of this sort!  Many will be ashamed in the last great day, when all disputes will be decided. Then they will see the folly of their inventions and be filled with remorse because of their proud infidelity and willful defiance of the LORD; but he who believed what the LORD taught and did what the LORD commanded will stand forth justified in what...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 19 Tozer in the Morning Applying the Test of Biblical Accuracy The tests for spiritual genuineness are two: First, the leader must be a good man and full of the Holy Ghost. Christianity is nothing if not moral. . . . But the test of moral goodness is not enough. Every man must submit his work to the scriptural test. It is not enough that he be able to quote from the Bible at great length or that he claim for himself great and startling experiences with God. Go back to the law and to the testimony. If he speak not according to the Word it is because there is no light in him. We who are invited to follow him have every right, as well as a solemn obligation, to test his work according to the Word of God. We must demand that every claimant for our confidence present a clean bill of health from the Holy Scriptures; that he do more than weave in a text occasionally, or hold up the Bible dramatically before the eyes of his hearers. ...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 19 “Who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again” (Romans 11:35) The Christian women of the world have it in their power, by a very little sacrifice, to add millions to the treasury of the Lord. Beloved sisters, have you found the joy of sacrifice for Jesus? Have you given up something that you might give it to Him? Are you giving your substance to Jesus? He will take it, and He will give you a thousandfold more. I should rather be connected with a work founded on great sacrifice than on enormous endowments. The reason God loved the place where His ancient temple rose in majesty was because there Abraham offered his son and David his treasure. The reason redemption is so dear to the Father and the heavenly world is because its foundation-stone is the Cross of Calvary. And the Christian life that is dearest to the heart of God, and will rise to the highest glory and usefulness, is the one whose foundation princi...

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 Worthy Brief - June 19, 2026  The glory was given for the Kingdom! John 17:22  And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:  Isaiah 6:3  And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!"  One sentence in Yeshua’s (Jesus') final prayer reveals the strategy of the Kingdom: “The glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one.” Notice the order. He does not say unity produces glory; He says glory produces unity. The Father shared His own glory with the Son, and the Son shares that same glory with His people so they might become a visible expression of His Kingdom in the earth. Glory is not merely something to experience -- it is something that creates a people who live under the same King. Isaiah heard the seraphim proclaim, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.” The heavenly ...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 19th June 2026 June 19 1 Kings 17:2-4 2Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah: 3"Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there." Elijah had just predicted that until he prayed for rain there would be no rain. Then God sent Elijah to a hide from the king and provided for him in a rather unusual way. The ravens brought him the ingredients for sandwiches. If you've ever watched ravens eat, you know they do not like to share. That's quite a miracle. God is Lord over His creation. I once read a story of a Chinese brother who was imprisoned for his faith. The guards withheld his food because he would not renounce Christ, so the LORD ordered mice to bring him food. He probably ate better on what the mice brought than if the prison had served him his meals. Jesus told us not to worry about what we will eat or wear because we have a ...

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'Under Slanderous Attacks I Trust in You!' — Psalm 56:2-4 NLT (Spiritual Warfare)

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'Boasting in Weaknesses' — 2 Corinthians 11:6-10 (Praying with Paul)

"The Slave Trade" — John 8:33-34 (What Jesus Did!)

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Daily Encounter: Nothing Goes Unnoticed for Thursday, June 18, 2026

 Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 18th Morning “The Strength of Israel will not lie.” 2 Kings 7:1-17 Some time after the cure of Naaman, the king of Syria besieged Samaria and reduced the people to such famine that mothers ate their own children. At last Elisha was permitted to assure the miserable people of deliverance. 2 Kings 7:2 He was profane as well as unbelieving. This sarcasm was a specimen of his usual sneers at the Lord and his prophet. 2 Kings 7:6 , 2 Kings 7:7 If the Lord wills it, the most valiant foes of his church will run away like frightened hares. Why should we fear those who so soon become afraid of themselves? 2 Kings 7:8-13 God’s promise was forgotten or smothered in its effect by their fears; however they did well to send and see. Some will not take the trouble even to look when a blessing is given, they feel so certain that it cannot be possible. 2 Kings 7:14-16 God’s word was fulfilled to the penny and to the hour. 2 King...

 Morning and Evening with A.W. Tozer Devotional for June 18 Tozer in the Morning Choosing Light God has given us a broad world of truth for our spiritual and intellectual habitation. This universe of truth is to the human soul as limitless as the air to a bird or the sea to a fish. There the Christian mind can luxuriate at perfect liberty. While the ages unfold the believer will need no more than has been already given, for it represents the broad and manifold will of God, the happy home of saints and angels. This vast sea of truth is expressed in nature, in the Holy Scriptures and in Christ, the Wisdom of God incarnate. Its rational phase can be reduced to a creed which may be learned as one would learn any other truth, and which when so learned constitutes Christian orthodoxy, best and most perfectly embodied in the beliefs of modern evangelical Christianity. But we must also remember that orthodoxy is not synonymous with Procrustean uniformity. We may bring every thought into ac...

 Days of Heaven on Earth Devotional for June 18 “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down” (Nehemiah 6:3) When work is pressing there are many little things that will come and seem to need attention. Then it is a very blessed thing to be quiet and still, and work on, and trust the little things with God. He answers such trust in a wonderful way. If the soul has no time to fret and worry and harbor care, it has learned the secret of faith in God. A desperate desire to get some difficulty right takes the eye off of God and His glory. Some dear ones have been so anxious to get well, and have spent so much time in trying to claim it, that they have lost their spiritual blessing. God sometimes has to teach such souls that there must be a willingness to be sick before they are so thoroughly yielded as to receive His fullest blessing. The enemy often keeps at this work. Sanballat came four times to Nehemiah and received always the same answer. It is best to stick to a good answ...

 Charles Spurgeon's "Faith's Checkbook" Devotional for June 18 “God Himself Shall Work ”  - Isaiah 33:10 When the spoilers had made the land as waste as if devoured by locusts, and the warriors who had defended the country sat down and wept like women, then the LORD came to the rescue. When travelers ceased from the roads to Zion, and Bashan and Carmel were as vineyards from which the fruit has failed, then the LORD arose. God is exalted in the midst of an afflicted people, for they seek His face and trust Him. He is still more exalted when in answer to their cries He lifts up Himself to deliver them and overthrow their enemies.  Is it a day of sorrow with us? Let us expect to see the LORD glorified in our deliverance. Are we drawn out in fervent prayer? Do we cry day and night unto Him? Then the set time for His grace is near. God will lift up Himself at the right season. He will arise when it will be most for the display of His glory. We wish for His glory more than...

 Worthy Brief - June 18, 2026 You are being transformed from glory to glory! 2 Corinthians 3:11-18  For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. 12 Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—  13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. 14  But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ. 15  But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.  17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.  Th...

 Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 18th June 2026 June 18 1 Kings 12:7-8 7They replied, "If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants." 8But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. Solomon reigned for forty years, the same number of years as his father David. Because his heart turned to other gods, the LORD promised ten tribes to one of his overseers, Jeroboam. When Solomon's son, Rehoboam, was to be crowned king, the people asked him to please lighten the burden Solomon had placed on them. Solomon had heavily taxed the people and given them assignments in service to the kingdom. Rehoboam asked the people to give him three days to consider this. He went to the elders that had advised his father. They had been a part of the success of his father and had a track record of giving good advice. They had years of...