“Who knows what marvelous opportunity God has waiting for you if you are sensitive enough to listen to what the Holy Spirit is saying to you right now. Don’t say, ‘Show me what You want me to do; then I’ll decide whether or not to do it.’ Instead, we need to say, ‘I’ll do it—whatever…
“This act of Rahab sets forth a yet more solemn lesson. Have I implicitly trusted in the precious blood of Jesus? Have I tied the scarlet cord, as with a Gordian knot in my window, so that my trust can never be removed? Or can I look out towards the Dead Sea of my sins,or…
I’m reminded of the little lady who said, “Don’t tell me worry doesn’t do any good. Most of the things I worry about never happen.” Worry is absolutely useless. It doesn’t cure any problems. It doesn’t lift any burdens. It doesn’t wipe away any tears. It never has; it never can; it never will! Worry can’t…
“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 What happens when you worry? You bring tomorrow’s difficulty into today. God didn’t give you grace for tomorrow’s difficulties. He only gives you grace for today. When you reach into tomorrow’s troubles, you overload today’s circuit. Worry doesn’t take the sorrow out of…
“When we fail to wait prayerfully for God’s guidance and strength, we are saying, with our actions if not our lips, that we do not need Him….Prayerful waiting on God is indispensable to effective service. Like the time-out in a football game, it enables us to catch our breath and fix new strategy….The need is…
We’ve been blessed with difficulties. Yes, you read right—blessed! The worst thing that could happen to us would be not to have any difficulties. If that were the case, we’d never know our need of the Lord. So God in essence says, “I’m going to give you sufficient difficulty for the day.” God gives you…
In sending darkness over the whole earth for three hours, God presents us with an object lesson concerning His attitude on the day Jesus died. The darkness was God’s sign of judgment against mankind for the gross sin of rejecting and murdering His beloved Son. It is also a sign of God’s reaction to sin…
There are two days that can steal the joy from today. One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow…
This is true communion when the sap of grace flows from the stem to the branch, and when it is perceived that the stem itself is sustained by the very nourishment which feeds the branch. As we day by day receive grace from Jesus, and more constantly recognize it as coming from him, we shall…
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” ((Matt 5.4)) You can be truly happy. True happiness is found in humility. First, this humility is found by possessing a spirit of dependence, being “poor in spirit.” ((Matt 5.3)). Second, humility possesses a spirit of repentance. Someone has written: A real indication of true…
And were it not for the promises of deliverance from our enemies that are so replete throughout the Scriptures, were it not for the hope that we would see deliverance “in the land of the living” (Psalm 27:13), and were it not for the confident knowledge that “evildoers shall be cut off” (Psalm 37:9), we…
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” ((Matt. 5:3))You can be truly happy. In the Sermon on the Mount there is an utterly new approach to living, one that results in joy instead of despair, in peace instead of conflict—a peace that the world does not understand and cannot…