The Great Divide of the Heart

Scripture: 1 Samuel 22
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section XI
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Here is one of my life lessons:
When I quit giving and started expecting, my joy was lost and I started giving out of pride and ambition in that I sowed to the wind and in turn reaped the whirl-wind. [...]

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The Treacherous Climb

Scripture: 1 Samuel 21
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section IX
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In the valley of fear and despair are the feet of the mountains that must be climbed to achieve the sumitt of the deeper life. It is in the valley and foot hills where one must learn the skill [...]

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Dying to Live

Scripture: 1 Samuel 19-20
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section IX
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I have often time thought to myself in worship, O that I could write songs like David or preach like Paul. The thought has occured to me, “would you live the life of David to be able to write [...]

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Becoming Who You Are

Scripture: 1 Samuel 18
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section VIII
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“Reading and seeing become fruitful and possess virtue and light only by the acquisition of this divine science, otherwise they are like dough to which leaven is necessary, and the salt of experience to season it. And since without [...]

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Blessed Senses

Scripture: 1 Samuel 16
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section VI
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“To all this there is but one answer—that the will of God is the only thing necessary, therefore what it does not grant must be useless… If you only knew what these events really are that you call misfortunes, [...]

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Infidelity to God’s Word

Scripture: 1 Samuel 15
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section V
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15:22 So Samuel said:
“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the [...]

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Fake Faith

Scripture: 1 Samuel 14
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section IV
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Read the readings prayerfully and carefully. I may write on this later, it was all very overwhelming to me.

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Obedience in the Divine Will

Scripture: 1 Samuel 12-13
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section III
Seeing all that God wanted to do in the life of Israel as we look back throught history sometimes I so arrogantly thought when preparing my teaching on texts such as these that I would never lose sight of the Lord and [...]

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Eye of Faith

Scripture: 1 Samuel 11
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section II
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“The more unfaithful, uncertain, and rebellious are the senses, the louder faith cries: “all is well, it is the will of God.” There is nothing that the eye of faith does not penetrate, nothing that the power of faith [...]

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Faith Satisfaction

Scripture: 1 Samuel 10
Reading: Abandonment to Divine Providence Book I Chapter II Section I
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“There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within [...]

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