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Daily Devotional for March 29, 2024

Tyranny Of Sin

Miles Stanford
You were set free from the tyranny of Sin" (Rom 6:18, Wey.).

The tyranny of sin over the lost necessitated the death of the Lord Jesus on the Cross. The tyranny of sin over the saved necessitated the death of the believer in the Lord Jesus on that same Cross. The dual truths of Calvary: His death for our sin, as payment; our death with Him unto sin, for deliverance. "The...

Bible Verses: Romans 6:18Romans 6:22

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Daily Devotional for March 28, 2024

Directed Prayer

Miles Stanford

Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" (Eph. 5:17).

Prayer to God must come from God. There can be no prayer in the full assurance of faith apart from the known will of God in the matter. "The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know His will" (

Bible Verses: Ephesians 5:17Acts 22:141 John 5:14Romans 8:26Romans 8:27Psalms 62:5

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Daily Devotional for March 27, 2024

Softening Sorrow

Miles Stanford

Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us" (2 Cor. 7:6).

All of us are going to have sorrow, and none of us should miss its spiritual benefits. "Godly sorrow worketh repentance...while the sorrow of the world worketh death (

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 7:62 Corinthians 7:102 Corinthians 1:4Revelation 7:17

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Daily Devotional for March 26, 2024

The Hand Of God

Miles Stanford

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God" (1 Pet. 2:19;

Bible Verses: 1 Peter 2:191 Peter 2:201 Peter 2:23

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Daily Devotional for March 25, 2024

Cooperative Living

Miles Stanford

Put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man" (Eph. 4:22, ASV).

Positionally, in the finished work of the Cross and resurrection, we have been cut off from the old man through death, and have been born into the new Man by the new birth. "Ye have put off the old man...and have put on the new man,...

Bible Verses: Ephesians 4:22Colossians 3:9Colossians 3:10Romans 6:11Galatians 2:20Galatians 5:17Ephesians 4:24

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Daily Devotional for March 24, 2024

Pattern Of Mercy

Miles Stanford

That He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had afore prepared unto glory" (Rom. 9:23).

Mercifully, day by day, He unfolds before our startled eyes the evil depths of the self-life. It is thus we come to know Him as the "God who is rich in mercy," and ourselves as "vessels of...

Bible Verses: Romans 9:23Isaiah 53:10Hosea 14:8

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Daily Devotional for March 23, 2024

Calvary And Pentecost

Miles Stanford

But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy" (Rom. 6:22, Wey.).

When the believer truly sees Calvary he says, "There, through the work of the Cross, I died with the Lord Jesus unto sin." When the believer truly sees...

Bible Verses: Romans 6:22Romans 8:2Galatians 5:1Romans 8:4

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Daily Devotional for March 22, 2024

Deepened Channels

Miles Stanford

God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Cor. 1:9).

We want fellowship with the Lord Jesus in His peace and joy, and naturally fear and seek to avoid suffering. However, it is in the fellowship of His sufferings that we partake of His peace and joy.

Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 1:9Philippians 3:10James 5:11

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Daily Devotional for March 21, 2024

The Cross, Then Consecration

Miles Stanford

The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Rom. 8:7).

The Cross is the altar upon which God sacrificed His Son. It is upon this same Cross (take up your Cross "daily"), this same altar (the place of death), that I am to be consecrated to God as "a new...

Bible Verses: Romans 8:72 Corinthians 5:17Romans 6:13Romans 12:1Philippians 3:10

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Daily Devotional for March 20, 2024

Risen Fare

Miles Stanford

He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna" (Deut. 8:3).

The wilderness wanderers were maintained by manna, but those in Canaan flourished on "the old corn of the land." The carnal Christian exists on the milk of the Word, while the hungry-hearted believer feeds and matures on the meat...

Bible Verses: Deuteronomy 8:32 Peter 1:3Joshua 5:12

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Daily Devotional for March 19, 2024

Effortless Grace

Miles Stanford

God . . . called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me" (Gal. 1:15; 16).

Just think! Our Father has placed us in eternal and living union with His Son, that He, not we, may "be."  Moreover, He has placed His Holy Spirit eternally within...

Bible Verses: Galatians 1:15Galatians 1:16Ephesians 1:32 Timothy 2:7

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Daily Devotional for March 18, 2024

Cost Of Leadership

Miles Stanford

Love suffereth long, and is kind" (1 Cor. 13:4).

The price of leadership remains high and hard; it may be cheap and easy for the dictator, for the hireling, but never for the shepherd. The dictator dominates; the hireling flees; but the good shepherd loves his sheep and is loved by them. He lays down his life...

Bible Verses: 1 Corinthians 13:42 Corinthians 4:12Philippians 2:5

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Daily Devotional for March 17, 2024

Past History

Miles Stanford

For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Cor. 5:21).

The Lord Jesus was in our place of death and judgment; we are in His place of life and glory.

Romans Seven describes the experience of the believer who...

Bible Verses: 2 Corinthians 5:21Romans 8:32 Corinthians 5:15

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Daily Devotional for March 16, 2024

Christian Culture

Miles Stanford

And He shall stand, and shall feed His flock in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God: and they shall abide" (Micah 5:4, ASV).

To an overwhelming degree "we are what we eat" - spiritually as well as physically. "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and Thy word was unto me the...

Bible Verses: Micah 5:4Jeremiah 15:16Hebrews 5:14

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