“Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence he will come and save you.” Isaiah 35:4 “Behold, your God will come.” The Lord then is not yet come; but he says he will come, and the promise of his coming takes away the fear. He says, “Behold.” Even that little word … Read more
“Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.” Isaiah 35:4 “Fear not.” “Ah! but Lord,” the soul says, “I do fear. I fear myself more than anybody. I fear my base, wicked heart, my strong lusts and passions, and my numerous inward enemies, the snares of Satan, and the temptations … Read more
“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood.” Romans 3:24, 25 Before we can have faith in Christ’s atoning blood, we must see the glory of the Person of the Lord of life. “We beheld … Read more
“No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11 There are those who walk uprightly, very uprightly, in the fear of God, and yet have little comfortable or abiding evidence that they are at present partakers of God’s grace, or will be hereafter sharers of Christ’s glory. But this one evidence … Read more
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:11 How many poor souls are struggling against the power of sin, and yet never get any victory over it! How many are daily led captive by the lusts of the flesh, the love … Read more
“His going forth is prepared as the morning.” Hosea 6:3 It is to the living soul walking in darkness, and unable to find God, that this text speaks: “His going forth is prepared as the morning.” There is an appointed time for the Lord to go forth and this is sweetly compared to the rising … Read more
“That he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” Deuteronomy 8:3 This is the grand lesson which we have to learn in our wilderness journey— “that man doth not live by bread only,” that … Read more
“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.” John 17:24 How great, how elevated above all utterance or all conception of men or angels, must … Read more
“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you.” 1 John 2:27 All the powers of earth and hell are combined against this holy anointing, wherewith the children of God are so highly favoured. But if God has locked up in the bosom of a saint one drop of this divine unction, … Read more
“That ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2 The will of God is “good, perfect, and acceptable.” How are we to prove personally and experimentally that it is all this? That good and perfect will runs counter, over and over again, to my natural inclinations, sets … Read more