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Daily Help
No Christian is safe when his soul is slothful, and his God is far from him. Every Christian is always safe as to the great matter of his standing in Christ, but he is not safe as regards his experience in holiness, and communion with Jesus in this life. SatanRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.” (Heb. 6:15.) ABRAHAM was long tried, but he was richly rewarded. The Lord tried him by delaying to fulfill His promise. Satan tried him by temptation; men tried him by jealousy, distrust, and opposition; Sarah tried him by herRead More …
Go!
Go! Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. . . —Matthew 28:19 Our Master commands us to “go.” We need permission to stay! The gospel is the account of Jesus’ leaving HisRead More …
Daily Help
Surely if there be a happy verse in the Bible, it is this—”My Beloved is mine, and I am his.” So peaceful, so full of assurance, so overrunning with happiness and contentment is it, that it might well have been written by the same hand which penned the twenty-third Psalm.Read More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.—John 8:9. Take my hands, and let them move At the impulse of Thy love. Take my feet, and let them be Swift and “beautiful” for Thee. Take my intellect, and use Every power as Thou shall choose. F.Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.” (Psalm 138:8.) THERE is a Divine mystery in suffering, a strange and supernatural power in it, which has never been fathomed by the human reason. There never has been known great saintliness of soul which did not pass through great suffering. WhenRead More …
God Remembers
God Remembers “Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride— how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.”—Jeremiah 2:2 Even when our hearts grow cold toward God and ourRead More …
Daily Help
“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation;” the soul is assured of it, and therefore declares it boldly. Into the soul at the new birth divine light is poured as the precursor of salvation. Where there is not enough light toRead More …
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.—Titus 3:8. Faith’s meanest deed more favor bears Where hearts and wills are weighed, Than brightest transports, choicest prayers, Which bloom their hourRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Not much earth.” (Matt. 13:5.) SHALLOW! It would seem from the teaching of this parable that we have something to do with the soil. The fruitful seed fell into “good and honest hearts.” I suppose the shallow people are the soil without much earth—those who have no real purpose, areRead More …
D5 Creation