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They that pray in the family do well they that pray and read the Scriptures do better but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

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Matthew Henry
Age: 51 †
Born: 1662
Born: October 18
Died: 1714
Died: June 22
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That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
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We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.
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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
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Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
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Not lost, but gone before.
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The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
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They that die by famine die by inches.
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The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.
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Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE!
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Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.
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If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.
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Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
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Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
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. . . when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can.
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The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
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For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love it is the sum of his law and gospel.
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God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
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No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.
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