Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLE

    My Utmost For His Highest They laid hold upon one Simon, … and on him they laid the cross Luke 23:26. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does…

  • Morning & Evening

    My soul, examine thyself this morning by the light of this text. Thou hast received the word with joy; thy feelings have been stirred and a lively impression has been made; but, remember, that to receive the word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into thy very soul is quite another;…

  • THE OPENED SIGHT

    My Utmost For His Highest To open their eyes, … that they may receive … Acts 26:18. This verse is the grandest condensation of the propaganda of a disciple of Jesus Christ in the whole of the New Testament. The first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words—“that they may receive remission…

  • WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

    Amazing Grace Joseph Scriven, 1819–1886 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24 KJV) A true friend loves and accepts us just as we are, stays close to us in good or in bad, and is always ready to help in…

  • Morning & Evening

    Doubting one! thou hast often said, “I fear I shall never enter heaven.” Fear not! all the people of God shall enter there. I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God’s finger is on the latch of my…

  • INTERCESSORY INTROSPECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. 1 Thess. 5:23. “Your whole spirit …” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which we cannot get at. Read the 139th Psalm; the Psalmist implies—‘Thou art…

  • PRAYER IS THE SOUL’S SINCERE DESIRE

    Amazing Grace James Montgomery, 1771–1854 Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. (Luke 18:1 KJV) Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails.— Unknown Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do ourselves.— Selected Except for Charles Wesley or…

  • Morning & Evening

    Christian! here is all thou canst require. To make thee happy thou wantest something that shall satisfy thee; and is not this enough? If thou canst pour this promise into thy cup, wilt thou not say, with David, “My cup runneth over; I have more than heart can wish”? When this is fulfilled, “I am…

  • DOES MY SACRIFICE LIVE?

    My Utmost For His Highest And Abraham built an altar … and bound Isaac his son. Genesis 22:9. This incident is a picture of the blunder we make in thinking that the final thing God wants of us is the sacrifice of death. What God wants is the sacrifice through death which enables us to…

  • SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

    Amazing Grace William W. Walford, 1772–1850 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. (Ephesians 6:18) No one is poor who can by prayer open the storehouse of God.— Louis Paul Lehman Through…