In the Christian, humility is the one thing needed to allow God's holiness to dwell in him and shine through him. In Jesus, the Holy One of God who makes us holy, a divine humility was the secret of His life and His death and His exaltation. The...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
WHEN we study the many-sidedness of prayer, we are surprised at the number of things with which it is connected. There is no phase of human life which it does not affect, and it has to do with everything affecting human salvation. Prayer and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him." Psalm 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1 Cor. 10: 3, 4, and 13: "They did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ." "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
You see why it is possible to have blessed fellowship with the Lord with an unveiled face, because of righteousness. I am not surprised that there is such a strong emphasis laid down in connection with the Sabbath with Israel. Go back to the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I have a dear friend who is now with the Lord. One day, after we had a time of prayer together, we read this passage in Ezekiel (44:9-26, 28, 31 ). She was very much older than I, and she addressed me like this: "My young brother, it was twenty...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hid in the House of God. 2 Chron. xxii. 12.SAFE from Athaliah, who would have ruthlessly destroyed him if she had had an inkling of his existence, the Young Joash was reared beneath the care of Jehoiada and his wife within the precincts of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We read in Luke 22:31-32 of Jesus warning Peter of a danger that lay ahead of him. He told him "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). The glorious appearing of our Savior should not be simply a doctrine to us. We should be looking forward to His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For true evangelical faith is of such a nature that it cannot lay dormant;but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love;it dies unto flesh and blood;destroys all forbidden lusts and desires;cordially seeks, serves and fears...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
