. Let us lose no opportunity of blessing,
and let us study ingenious ways of service and usefulness. Especially let
us seek to win souls.

The Days of Heaven are busy days,
They serve continually,
So spent for Thee and Thine, our days,
As the Days of Heaven would be.

The Days of Heaven are loving days,
As one they all agree,
So linked in loving unity
May our days as Heaven be.

JULY 14.

"Men ought always to pray" (Luke xviii. 1).

Let this be a day of prayer. Let us see that our highest ministry and
power is to deal with God for men. Let us be obedient to all the Holy
Spirit's voices of prayer in us. Let us count every pressure a call to
prayer. Let us cherish the spirit of unceasing prayer and abiding
communion. Let us learn the meaning of the ministry of prayer. Let us
reach persons this day we cannot reach in person; let us expect results
that we have never dared to claim before; let us count every difficulty
only a greater occasion for prayer, and let us call on God, who will show
us many great and mighty things which we know not.

And let it be a day of joy and praise. Let us live in the promises of God
and the outlook of His deliverance and blessing. Let us never dwell on the
trial but always on the victory just before. Let us not dwell in the tomb,
but in the garden of Joseph and the light of the resurrection. Let us keep
our faces toward the sun rising. Arise, shine. Rejoice evermore. In
everything give thanks. Praise ye the Lord.

Lord, give us Thy joy in our hearts which shall lift us to lift others,
and fill us so we may overflow to others.

JULY 15.

"I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine" (Song of Solomon vi. 3).

If I am the Lord's then the Lord is mine. If Christ owns me I own Him. And
so faith must reach out and claim its full inheritance and begin to use
its great resources. Moment by moment we may now take Him as our grace and
strength, our faith and love, our victory and joy, our all in all. And as
we thus claim Him we will find His grace sufficient for us, and begin to
learn that giving all is just receiving all. Yes, consecration is getting
Him fully instead of our own miserable life. There are, indeed, two sides
of it. There are two persons in the consecration. One of them is the dear
Lord Himself. "And for their sakes," He says, "I consecrate Myself that
they also might be consecrated through the truth." The moment we
consecrate ourselves to Him He c