Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

September 26

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? — Matthew 7:11

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O GOD, our Father, Thou art always the same today, yesterday and forever. But we are different, and our ways are doubtful; and we know not what a day may bring forth. Guide us today as those who will surely miss the path except Thou go before and show the way. O Lord, deal gently with our wandering lives. Save us when we fall. We will need Thee every hour to make our progress swift, and sweet and sure toward the Father's House.

As day is added unto day may we add to our strength, diligence and faith also, and patience, and self-control, and kindness and a love which never faileth. Help us to be wiser today because of yesterday's failures, stronger by reason of any defeat which came to afflict us. Make us forgiving since there is much for which we need forgiveness. May we this day do nothing hurtful to one another or shameful to our calling as believers in the Lord.

We thank Thee that Thou art so willing to be our Helper--waiting to be welcomed to our homes and wanting to be trusted in our hearts. O that we were as eager to be saved by Thee as Thou art to save us!

Make this, then, a good day for us, living through its tasks, as we shall wish we had, when the day is done, for Christ's sake. Amen.

J. Henry Harms, D.D.,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Isaiah 40:28 Hast Thou not known? hast though not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary?

September 7

Hast Thou not known? hast though not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? — Isaiah 40:28

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OUR Heavenly Father, with reverence and humilitiy we would bow at the Throne of Grace to obtain mercy and find grace for our daily needs. Conscious in some measure of our weakness and sinfulness, we earnestly seek Thy forgiving mercy, rejoicing to know that "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." We thank Thee for our home, and for the love that sweetens and beautifies home life. To each member of our family circle grant such blessings as are specially needed. Enlarge and deepen our sympathies. Preserve us from selfishness. Help us to learn patience and self control. Keep us from hasty, thoughtless and unkind words, and from misunderstanding and misjudging others, and deliver us from anxiety and complaining. Fill Thy Church with missionary zeal and with the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Strengthen the weak, comfort the sorrowing, restore the wandering. Remember with special mercy the homeless, the widow and the fatherless and all who are lonely and friendless. Help men everywhere to have the spirit of true brotherhood, and grant the speedy triumph throughout the whole world of the principles of the Gospel of Peace. All of which we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.

J. W. Conley, D.D.,

Fresno, California