September 12 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem. Matt. 20:18. Never had there been such a going up to Jerusalem as that which Jesus here proposes to His disciples. He goes up voluntarily. The act was not enforced by any external compulsion. Jerusalem might at this time have been avoided.Read More …

September 11 Now are we the sons of God: and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 1 John 3:2. Now are we the sons of God.”Read More …

September 10 In the daytime… He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. Psa. 78:14. My day is my prosperity; it is the time when the sun of fortune is bright above me, and, therefore, it is the time when I need aRead More …

September 9 This beginning of miracles did Jesus. John 2:11. It was out of the common thing that the precious thing was brought; and it is out of the common things of daily life, presented obediently to Jesus and laid at His feet, that He brings His own glorious gifts,Read More …

September 8 He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest it him, even length of days or ever and ever. Psa. 21:4. When poor men make requests of us we usually answer them as the echo does the voice—the answer cuts off half the petition. We shall seldom find amongRead More …

September 7 The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. 15:13. In spiritual as in earthly things there is great strength in hope, and, therefore, God’s people are carefully to cultivateRead More …

September 6 The church of God, which He hath purchased with His own blood. Acts 20:28. Surely He may do what He will with His own. The price He has paid to make them His own is a sufficient guarantee that He will never make light of anything in whichRead More …

September 5 It is high time to awake out of sleep. Rom. 13:11. I have heard of a painter who loved to work by the morning light. He said that the colors were better understood by the light of the early day, and so he was wont to be inRead More …

September 04 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness. Dan. 9:9. As a spring lock closes itself, but cannot be unlocked without a key, so we ourselves may run into sin, but cannot return without the key of God’s grace. —Cawdray Thoughts for the Quiet Hour – SeptemberRead More …

September 3 My pretence shall go with thee Ex. 33:14. We should never leave our prayer closets in the morning without having concentrated our thoughts deeply and intensely on the fact of the actual presence of God there with us, encompassing us, and filling the room as literally as itRead More …