[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1130":3},"NOVEMBER 30\r\nAnd seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not:for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy    life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou\r\ngoest (Jer. 45:5).\r\nA promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life A in the midst of tremendous pressure, a life \"for a prey.\" It may\r\nwell adjust itself to our own times, which are growing harder as we near the end of the age, and the Tribulation times.\r\nWhat is the meaning of \"a fife for a prey\"? It means a life\r\nsnatched out of the jaws of the destroyer, as David snatched the lamb from the lion. It means not removal from the noise of the\r\nbattle and the presence of our foes; but it means a table in the\r\nmidst of our enemies, a shelter from the storm, a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face of continual pressure: Paul's\r\nhealing when pressed out of measure so that he despaired of life;\r\nPaul's Divine help when the thorn remained, but the power of Christ rested upon him and the grace of Christ was sufficient Lord, give\r\nme my life for a prey, and in the hardest places help me today to be victorious. --Days of Heaven upon Earth.\r\nWe often pray to be delivered from calamities; we even trust that\r\nwe shall be; but we do not pray to be made what we should be, in the very presence of the calamities; to live amid them, as long as\r\nthey last in the consciousness that we are held and sheltered by\r\nthe Lord, and can therefore remain in the midst of them, so long as they continue, without any hurt. For forty days and nights, the\r\nSavior was kept in the presence of Satan in the wilderness, and\r\nthat, under circumstances of special trial, His human nature being    weakened by want of food and rest. The furnace was heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated, but the three Hebrew\r\nchildren were kept a season amid its flames as calm and composed in the presence of the tyrant's last appliances of torture, as they\r\nwere in the presence of himself before their time of deliverance\r\ncame. And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions, and\r\nwhen he was taken up out of the den, \"no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.\" They dwelt in the\r\npresence of the enemy, because they dwelt in the presence of God.",1783499794080]