Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL

    My Utmost For His Highest Fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ. 1 Thess. 3:2. After sanctification it is difficult to state what your aim in life is, because God has taken you up into His purpose by the Holy Ghost. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used…

  • PRAISE HIM! PRAISE HIM!

    Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. (Psalm 146:2) Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. This realization can turn any gloom into a song. —…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The word refuge may be translated “mansion,” or “abiding-place,” which gives the thought that God is our abode, our home. There is a fulness and sweetness in the metaphor, for dear to our hearts is our home, although it be the humblest cottage, or the scantiest garret; and dearer far is our blessed God, in…

  • SACRAMENTAL SACRIFICE

    My Utmost For His Highest Who now rejoice in My sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ.… Col. 1:24. The Christian worker has to be a sacramental ‘go-between,’ to be so identified with his Lord and the reality of His Redemption that He can continually bring His…

  • PRAISE THE SAVIOR

    Thomas Kelly, 1769–1854 In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:11, 12) God’s people…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical effect that which we believe. If a man walks…

  • THE UNRIVALLED POWER OF PRAYER

    My Utmost For His Highest We know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26. We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; we know what it is to pray in the Spirit; but…

  • MAY JESUS CHRIST BE PRAISED

    German hymn, c. 1800Translated by Edward Caswall, 1814–1878 I will extol the Lord at all times: His praise will always be on my lips. (Psalm 34:1) Forms of worship services vary according to the cultural backgrounds, personalities, and traditions of the believers. Some Christians feel that true worship is best achieved when it is conducted…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The life of faith is represented as receiving—an act which implies the very opposite of anything like merit. It is simply the acceptance of a gift. As the earth drinks in the rain, as the sea receives the streams, as night accepts light from the stars, so we, giving nothing, partake freely of the grace…

  • THE UNDETECTED SACREDNESS OF CIRCUMSTANCES

    My Utmost For His Highest All things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28. The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you cannot understand at all,…