September 22 When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father, which is in secret. Matt. 6:6. This is faith’s stronghold; here she weapons herself for the daily conflict. Silence in that closet of prayer bespeaks death throughout all the house.Read More …

September 21 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Psa. 100:2. God wants our life to be a song. He has written the music for us in His Word and in the duties that come to us in our places and relations in life. The thingsRead More …

September 20 Base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen. 1 Cor. 1:28. In some of the great halls of Europe may be seen pictures not painted with the brush, but mosaics, which are made up of small pieces of stone, glass, or other material.Read More …

September 19 I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa. 48:10. Does not the word come like a soft shower, assuaging the fury of the flame? Yea, is it not an asbestos armor, against which the heat hath no power? Let affliction come—God has chosen me. Poverty, thouRead More …

September 18 Then spake Solomon… I have surely built thee an house to dwell in. 1 Kings 8:12, 13. Solomon, the prince of peace, alone could build the temple. If we would be soul-winners and build up the church, which is God’s temple, let us note this; not by discussionRead More …

September 17 And the angel of the Lord said unto her [Hagar], Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. Gen. 16:9. Submission is a great Christian law, but we find it early in Genesis, early in the history of mankind, and angel-given. —Selected Thoughts for the QuietRead More …

September 15 The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. Matt. 20:28. We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We areRead More …

September 15 The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. Matt. 20:28. We are so to surrender ourselves to Christ that this great purpose of His coming shall claim and possess the whole life. We areRead More …

September 14 I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Psa. 32:8. When God does the directing, our life is useful and full of promise, whatever it is doing; and discipline has its perfecting work. —H. E.Read More …

September 13 These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work. 1 Chron. 4:23. Anywhere and everywhere we may dwell “with the King for His work.” We may be in a very unlikely or unfavorable place for this;Read More …