The Archives Devotional Magazine June 2015

Week Three “IF GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO CHINA OR ANY OTHER PLACE AND YOU ARE SURE IN YOUR OWN HEART, LET NOTHING DETER YOU... REMEMBER IT IS GOD WHO HAS CALLED YOU AND IT IS THE SAME AS WHEN HE CALLED MOSES OR SAMUEL.” ―GLADYS AYLWARD DAY 1 “Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others. Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? How dare you say to your brother, ‘Please, let me take that speck out of your eye,’ when you have a log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. “Do not give what is holy to dogs—they will only turn and attack you. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs—they will only trample them underfoot. “Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will ﬁnd; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will ﬁnd, and the door will be opened to those who knock. Would any of you who are fathers give your son a stone when he asks for bread? Or would you give him a snake when he asks for a ﬁsh? As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” DAY 2 “Do for others what you want them to do for you: this is the meaning of the Law of Moses and of the teachings of the prophets. “Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate to hell is wide and the road that leads to it is easy, and there are many who travel it. But the gate to life is narrow and the way that leads to it is hard, and there are few people who ﬁnd it. “Be on your guard against false prophets; they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves. You will know them by what they do. Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briers do not bear ﬁgs. A healthy tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a poor tree cannot bear good fruit. And any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown in the ﬁre. So then, you will know the false prophets by what they do. “Not everyone who calls me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do. When the Judgment Day comes, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord! In your name we spoke God's message, by your name we drove out many demons and performed many miracles!’ Then I will say to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you wicked people!’” NOTE Ask and Receive The Autobiography of George Muller is a very powerful example of God providing for his people. In this diary, George keeps track of his prayers, his concerns, his praises, and the answers to his prayers while running an orphanage. One such answer to prayer is the orphanage receiving food on the exact day it is needed, showing that God does provide good things to his children.

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