Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • MORNING & EVENING

    A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. In this renewal the same exercise of grace is required as at our conversion. We needed repentance then; we certainly need it now. We wanted faith that we might come to Christ at first; only the like grace can…

  • FAITH

    Without faith it is impossible to please Him. Hebrews 11:6. Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of…

  • HOLD THE FORT

    Words and Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876 Only hold on to what you have until I come. (Revelation 2:25) God’s call to each believer is to be obedient and faithful—not to seek a life of earthly success. Difficulties and defeats are a normal part of every Christian’s life. Our response to negative situations can…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth’s gratitude rises when the sun of heaven’s love warms the ground. Hath the Lord been gracious to thee, and inclined his ear to the voice of thy supplication? Then praise him as long as thou livest. Let the ripe fruit drop upon the fertile…

  • SUBSTITUTION

    My Utmost For His Highest He hath made Him to be sin for us, … that we might be made the righteousness of God.… 2 Cor. 5:21. The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins out of sympathy. The New Testament view is that He bore our sin…

  • WHERE CROSS THE CROWDED WAYS OF LIFE

    Franklin Mason North, 1850–1935 Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 82:3, 4) Henry David Thoreau, noted American writer, philosopher, and naturalist of the past 19th century, once described the large city…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father “in heaven,” and ascends to devout adoration, “Hallowed be thy name.” The…

  • THE METHOD OF MISSIONS

    My Utmost For His Highest Go ye therefore and teach (disciple) all nations. Matthew 28:19. Jesus Christ did not say—‘Go and save souls’ (the salvation of souls is the supernatural work of God), but—“Go and teach,” i.e., disciple, “all nations,” and you cannot make disciples unless you are a disciple yourself. When the disciples came…

  • RISE UP, O MEN OF GOD

    William P. Merrill, 1867–1954 … that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. (Philippians 1:27, 28) Our world is filled with much physical and social suffering. Often we prefer to close our eyes to these…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Paul has four of these “faithful sayings.” The first occurs in 1 Timothy 1:15, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” The next is in 1 Timothy 4:8–9, “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now…