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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER">“<b>TWO
ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES</b></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></p>
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</p><p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="CENTER"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>SEP
14 - JOEL: THE DAY OF JEHOVAH COMES</b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>1.
1:7 (1:1-12, ESV) BABYLON: GOD’S INSTRUMENT AGAINST JUDAH. <font size="3">“It
has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped
off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.”
</font></b><u><span style="font-weight:normal">For Revival</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">:
Before additions - must </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">first</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
come subtractions! Father, You use a remnant to pray through, before
the multitudes come to the valley of decision - this is the way of
Your Kingdom. We remember Gideon and his 300! </span></span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
</span></span></font><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallowed
be your :name!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">2.
1:14 (1:13-14) JUDAH: AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Consecrate
a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the
inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry
out to the LORD.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Lord
Jesus, You assumed Your disciples would </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">fast</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
(Matthew 6:16-18). Father, those with a heart after You follow Your
Son in </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">fasting</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
(Psalm 69:1</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">0</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">).
</span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">We
follow Paul in </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">fastings</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
often (2 Corinthians 11:27), as he followed Jesus! </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:kingdom come!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">3.
2:1 (1:15-2:11) DAY OF JEHOVAH: INCENTIVE TO REPENTANCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Blow
a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming;
it is near.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">What
a fearful day is this! Let us not follow the siren-call of false
prophets who heal Your people slightly, and preach a watered-down
Gospel! In the midst of judgment we read Psalm 91, while 1000’s and
10,000’s fall on either side. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Your
:will be done, As in heaven, so on earth!</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in" align="LEFT"><font style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>4.
2:17 (2:12-27) REPENTANCE PRAYER & FASTING: KEY TO RESTORATION!
</b></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font size="3"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>“Between
the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the
LORD, weep and say, ‘Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your
heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations.’ Why should they
say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’” </b></span></span></font></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
forgive us Father, for being so calloused, hardened and blind! May we
understand the times in which we live, and as a godly remnant press
in to qualify as ministers first to You in the inner court! </span></span></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>Our
:daily :bread Give us this day</b></span></i></font><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><i><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>.</b></span></i></font></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">5.
2:28-29 (2:28-32) HOLY SPIRIT AND REPENTANCE. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see vision.
</span></font><font style="font-size:8pt" size="1"><span style="text-decoration:none">29
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">Even
on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my
Spirit.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Now
Father, we see Your great faithfulness! In Christ Jesus you have
blessed us abundantly with all heavenly blessings. We respond to this
upward calling in Christ Jesus. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
forgive us our :debts, As we also have forgiven our :debtors.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">6.
3:14 (3:1-16) ARMAGGEDON. </span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Multitudes,
multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is
near in the valley of decision.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">But
first Father, You need a godly remnant who will pay the price, and go
in beyond the veil to minister to You. </span></span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">Then</span></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
the Spirit will bring true contrition and repentance to the
multitudes. </span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And
bring us not into temptation.</span></i></b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>7.
3:17 (3:17-21) JUDAH: RESTORATION FOLLOWING ARMAGEDDON. <font size="3">“</font><font size="3">So
you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my
holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never
again pass through it.” </font></b><span style="font-weight:normal">Hallelujah!
</span><u><span style="font-weight:normal">This</span></u><span style="font-weight:normal">
is the word of the Lord! Father, we bless You for Your final chapter.
We know the end from the beginning. It was all legally won at
Calvary. Soon it will be vitally appropriated! </span><b><i> But
deliver us from the evil </i>one!</b></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><u><b>NOTE</b></u><span style="text-decoration:none"><b>:
2:23 (2:12-27) AN EXTRAORDINARY PROMISE! </b></span><b><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Be
glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he
has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for
you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
- or “The early and the latter rain” </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">(A.V.).
Our times Father, are in Your hands.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">Some
may ask, “But what motivated you to prepare this Daily Devotional
of “Through the Bible in a Year? Actually it was because of Larry
Lea. </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">He
read in Matthew 26:40 the words of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
to Peter, James and John: “Could you not watch with me one hour?”
This so challenged him that he prepared a one hour devotional based
on the 7 Jehovah Names of God. The problem was, he only had this one
devotional. After using it each day for several months, one wife told
her husband, “If you use the words from this devotional, ‘You
will become the head and not the tail’ once more, I’ll scream!
This gave me the thought - If I prepare a Daily Devotional of
“Through the Bible in a Year” where one can pray an hour with a
different setting 365 times a year - then it would no longer be
aggravating. Hence - the above, as one of 365.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">C.H.
Spurgeon Quotes: “Heaven Is Hidden In The Gospel” - </span></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">And
so, within the simple Gospel, how much lies concentrated? Look at it!
Within that truth lie regeneration, repentance, faith, holiness,
zeal, consecration, perfection. Heaven hides itself away within the
Gospel.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="text-decoration:none">Our
Psalm for the Day: 74:20 (74) ARISE, O GOD, DEFEND YOUR CAUSE.
</span><font size="3"><span style="text-decoration:none">“Have
regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of
the habitations of violence.” </span></font></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">O
<br>Father, forgive us for not understanding Your timing! 1000 of our
years - but a day to You! Jesus raising Lazarus: Your Timing! We will
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">Hallow your
:name</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">,
and in our patience preserve our souls.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><b>Title:
“Maschil of Asaph.” An instructive Psalm by Asaph. </b>The
history of the suffering church is always edifying; when we see how
the faithful trusted and wrestled with their God in times of dire
distress, we are thereby taught how to behave ourselves under similar
circumstances; we learn, moreover, that when the fiery trial befalls
us, no strange things have happened unto us, we are following the
trail of the host of God.</font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">74:1.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">O God, why
have You cast us off forever? </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">To
cast us off at all were hard, but when You do for so long a time
desert Your people, it is an evil beyond all endurance - the very
chief of woes and abyss of misery. Sin is usually at the bottom of
all the hidings of the Lord’s face; let us ask the Lord to reveal
the special form of it to us, that we may repent of it, overcome it,
and henceforth forsake it.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">74:8.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">They said in
their hearts, Let us destroy them together.</span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">
Pharaoh’s policy to stamp out the nation has been a precedent for
others, yet the Jews survive, and will: the bush though burning has
not been consumed. Even thus the church of Christ has gone through
baptisms of blood and fire, but it is all the brighter for them.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">74:18.
</span></span><b><i><span style="text-decoration:none">And that the
foolish people have blasphemed Your name. </span></i></b><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:normal">The
meanness of the enemy is here pleaded. Sinners are fools, and shall
fools be allowed to insult the Lord and oppress His people; shall the
abjects curse the Lord and defy Him to His face? When error grows too
bold, its day is near and its fall certain. Arrogance foreshadows
ripeness of evil, and the next step is rottenness. Instead of being
alarmed when bad men grow worse and more audacious, we may reasonably
take heart, for the hour of their judgment is evidently near.</span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.01in;margin-bottom:0in"><font face="Palatino Linotype, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">72:20.
Much of this Psalm has passed over our mind while beholding the
idolatries of Rome (the author visited Rome in November and December,
1871, while this portion of the “Treasury of David” was in
progress), and remembering her bloody persecution of the saints. O
Lord, how long shall it be ere You will ease Yourself of those
profane wretches, the priests, and cast the harlot of Babylon into
the ditch of corruption? May Your church never cease to plead with
You till judgment shall be executed and the Lord avenged upon
Antichrist. <b>(From “The Treasury of David” by C.H. Spurgeon,
abridged by D.O. Fuller)</b></font></font></p>
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