[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0214":3},"FEBRUARY 14\n\nAnd again I say, Rejoice (Phil. 4:4).\r\nIt is a good thing to rejoice in the Lord. Perhaps you have tried\r\nthis, and the first time seemed to fad. Never mind, keep right on\r\nand when you cannot feel any joy, when there is no spring, and no seeming comfort and encouragement still rejoice, and count it\r\nal/joy. Even when you fail into divers temptations, reckon It joy\r\nand delight and God will make your reckoning good. Do you suppose your Father will let you carry the banner of His victory and His\r\ngladness on to the front of the battle, and then coolly stand back\r\nand see you captured or beaten back by the enemy? NEVER! The Holy\r\nSpirit will sustain you in your bold advance, and fill your heart with gladness and praise, and you will find your heart all\r\nexhilarated and refreshed by the fullness within. Lord teach me to rejoice in Thee, and to \"rejoice evermore.\" --Selected.\r\nThe weakest saint may Satan rout,\r\nWho meets him with a praiseful shout.\r\n\"Be filled with the Spirit, . . . singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord\" (Eph. 5:18, 19).\r\nHere the Apostle urges the use of singing as one of the inspiring helps in the spiritual life. He counsels his readers not to seek\r\ntheir stimulus through the body, but through the spirit-, not by the quickening of the flesh, but by the exaltation of the soul.\r\nSometimes a light surprises   The Christian while we sings.\r\nLet us sing even when we do not feel like it for thus we may give wings to leaden feet and turn weariness into strength.\r\n--J. H. Jowett.\r\n\"At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them\" (Acts 16:25).\r\nOh, Paul, thou wondrous example to the flock, who could thus glory, bearing in the body as thou didst \"the marks of the Lord Jesus\"!\r\nMarks from the stoning almost to the death, from thrice beating\r\nwith rods, from those hundred and ninety-five stripes laid on thee by the Jews, and from stripes received in that Philippian jail,\r\nwhich had they not drawn blood would not have called for washing! Surely the grace which enabled thee to sing praises under such\r\nsuffering is all-sufficient grace. --J. Roach.\r\nOh, let us rejoice in the Lord, evermore,\r\nWhen darts of the tempter are flying,\r\nFor Satan still dreads, as he oft did of yore, Our singing much more than our sighing.",1783499792049]