Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • AM I A SOLDIER OF THE CROSS?

    Isaac Watts, 1674–1748 Endure hardship with us like a good solder of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. (2 Timothy 2:3, 4) The Church founded by Christ has been built on the blood of martyrs. It has been estimated that at least…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life: because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as he…

  • GREATER WORKS

    My Utmost For His Highest And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father. John 14:12. Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a commonsense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God’s work.…

  • MY SOUL, BE ON THY GUARD

    George Heath, 1750–1822 Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize. (1 Corinthians 9:26, 27) There is…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The thought of David’s heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God’s anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act. On no one occasion had the Lord deserted his servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often,…

  • THE KEY TO THE MASTER’S ORDERS

    My Utmost For His Highest Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest. Matthew 9:38. The key to the missionary problem is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work, that is, not work as the word is popularly understood to-day, because…

  • MUST JESUS BEAR THE CROSS ALONE?

    Thomas Shepherd, 1665–1739 Then He called the crowd to Him along with His disciples and said: “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.” (Mark 8:34) The scriptural qualifications for discipleship are very clear: Self-denial and a resolve to bear a cross of consecration for…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    In these words the believer is invited to a holy nearness to Jesus. “Come and dine,” implies the same table, the same meat; aye, and sometimes it means to sit side by side, and lean our head upon the Saviour’s bosom. It is being brought into the banqueting-house, where waves the banner of redeeming love.…

  • THE KEY TO THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE

    My Utmost For His Highest And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John 2:2. The key to the missionary message is the propitiation of Christ Jesus. Take any phase of Christ’s work—the healing phase, the saving and sanctifying phase;…

  • STAND UP FOR JESUS

    George Duffield, 1818–1888 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. (Ephesians 6:10) A great city-wide revival swept across Philadelphia in 1858. It was called “the work of God in Philadelphia.” Of the participating ministers none was more powerful that the 29-year-old Episcopalian, Dudley Tyng, who was known as a bold and…