“Apart from prayer — abiding, enduring, believing prayer — we’re as dead as a doorknob with all our doctrine. How I need God! I feel sometimes I can’t breathe — unless I have Him! Some of you know. And maybe you have forgotten. You remember those times of tarrying in His presence. And you knew … Continue reading Oh, to Know Him!
“Whatever your pain — the relational pain, the issues that you have to deal with, the things that seem like they are never going away — remember, they are not forever. There is a limit and God determines the limit, the duration. He knows what you can bear. He knows what He will give you … Continue reading God is Doing a Work in You
“In Mary of Bethany, with her broken box of ointment, we see shadowed forth the life of surrender… The lesson of giving, like all other lessons, is best learnt in His presence… Let our one aim in the matter be to find what still remains kept back; let our ideal of life be no longer … Continue reading The Life of Surrender
“Each of us needs to honestly face and seriously answer this question: How highly do I really value communion with Christ?…Christ has the first claims upon me. Do I realize this? Am I acting accordingly? Am I making it my chief concern to cultivate closer communion with Him? Am I—amidst all the problems, frictions, trials … Continue reading Closer Communion With Him
“Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was” (John 11:5–6). The word “so” connecting those two sentences is stunning. The most loving thing Jesus could do at that moment was to let Lazarus die. But … Continue reading Afterward You Will Understand
“Revelation 3:20 – This is what Christ says, ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he with Me.’ I’ll tell you this, the picture in the Jewish mind of eating with somebody was intimacy. … Continue reading He Stands at The Door And Knocks
One who does not know Him or truly love Him may take those beautiful, precious promises of His and cleverly twist them into a license to love what the Lord hates, or to do what should never be done—‘whose end will be according to their works.’ But every one truly born of … Continue reading Look To Him—And Keep on Looking
At one time John Wesley found himself on a ship with some Moravian believers in the midst of a terrifying storm at sea. His life was dramatically impacted by observing in them an inexplicable peace amidst otherwise intense panic. Not unlike Paul and Silas who (at midnight in a prison cell) were praying and singing … Continue reading Looking to The One Who The Winds and Waves Obey
“One day I was at a conference with Dr. V. Raymond Edman. . . He told us of an experience he had while he was in Ecuador as a missionary. He hadn’t been there long before he was sick and dying. He was so near death that they had already dug his grave. He had … Continue reading Carry on With What The Lord Tells You
“When the Lord Jesus Christ is at liberty to fill me and fill you and live in us His own life, His primary purpose is not to make us successful, not to make us notable, not to even bring us into outward peace or calm, for He promised frankly that it would send a sword … Continue reading He Wants us to Want Him Just For Himself