June 27, 2024

June 27:  Christian Fellowship.

The Sweetest Hour of the Day.
"You shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you."--Deuteronomy 12:12, NKJV

FATHERS AND MOTHERS, however pressing your business, do not fail to gather your family around God's altar.  Ask for the guardianship of holy angels in your home.  Remember that your dear ones are exposed to temptations.  Daily annoyances beset the path of young and old.  Those  who would live patient, loving, cheerful lives must pray.  Only by receiving constant help from God can we gain the victory over self.--The Ministry of Healing, 393.

The hours of morning and evening worship should be the sweetest and most helpful of the day.  Let it be understood that into these hours no troubled, unkind thoughts are to intrude; that parents and children assemble to meet with Jesus, and to invite into the home the presence of holy angels.  Let the services be brief and full of life, adapted to the occasion, and varied from time to time.  Let all join in the Bible reading and learn and often repeat God's law....Let the little ones take part in prayer, and let them join in song, if it be but a single verse.--Education, 186.

                             Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
                                Extol Him who rides on the clouds,
                                            By His name YAH,
                                         And rejoice before Him.
                              
                                        --Psalm 68:4, NKJV