“We can all say that we started off life, to use an illustration, with a ball of string neatly rolled up. But, through the years that string we have tied up into ten thousand or ten million knots. And now, as we look at this ball of string, tied into ten thousand or ten million … Continue reading Every Single Knot Jesus Can Untie
“Every now and then we come across a life that is radiant, …revealing a richness, a warmth, a triumph that intrigues and challenges us. We typically find these lives in biographies out of the past. But, just when we begin to think that such people lived only in other days, we meet one in real … Continue reading The Exchanged Life
“These eyes have never seen the Saviour, but this heart hath seen him; these lips have never kissed his cheek, for that they might do and I might be a Judas; but the soul hath kissed him and he hath kissed me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine. … Continue reading A Joy Worth Worlds!
“In 2 Kings Chapter 2, we see the persistence of Elisha when Elijah tested him. When Elijah was about to be taken up to heaven, Elisha went along with him to Gilgal. Elijah told Elisha to stay in Gilgal, as he was going to Bethel. Elisha said, “No. I am coming with you.” At Bethel, Elijah again told Elisha to … Continue reading God Will Not Disappoint You
“How can we get ready for the persecution?…we need to feed on the word of God, digest it, make it a part of our being…we need to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Not just the Jesus of yesterday, the Jesus of History, but the life-changing Jesus of today who is still alive and … Continue reading Preparing For Persecution
“The Spirit’s saving work on the will and affections discovers itself by that soul’s approbation of the Savior beheld, its desires after Him, its approaches to Him, its laying hold of Him, and casting itself, under the Spirit’s sweet and strong attraction, with the whole weight of its everlasting salvation upon Christ alone for all … Continue reading The Soul’s Present and Eternal Bliss
SONG OF SONGS 1:2Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth:For Thy love is better than wine. “The words are not those of one dead in trespasses and sins, to whom the LORD is as a root out of a dry ground — without form and comeliness. The speaker has had her eyes … Continue reading Hudson Taylor on Union and Communion With Christ
“Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour. It does … Continue reading You Will Never Be Able to Thank Him Enough
“The complaint that Jesus had against the Church at Ephesus was their lack of fervent, personal love for Him; they had “works” and “labor” and “patience,” and great zeal in searching out heretics, and in bearing persecution and the scorn of their neighbors, and had not fainted under hardships. If such a list of graces … Continue reading Loving Jesus
“A saint’s life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, but our Lord continues to stretch and strain, and every once in a while the saint says, ‘I can’t take any more.’ Yet God pays no … Continue reading God is Faithful