Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • THE WILL TO LOYALTY

    My Utmost For His Highest Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15. Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will, I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God’s Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth it is never a…

  • COME, YE DISCONSOLATE

    Thomas Moore, 1779–1852, (verses 1 and 2 with alterations)Thomas Hastings, 1784–1872, (verse 3) You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) God’s delight is to administer comfort to wounded spirits.— Unknown Repeating the plea to “come” and the plaintive promise that “earth has no sorrow that…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Where lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for faith studies what the promise is—an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing of the great heart of God; and faith says, “My God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain…

  • VISION AND REALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest And the parched ground shall become a pool. Isaiah 35:7. We always have visions before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt…

  • SWEET PEACE, THE GIFT OF GOD’S LOVE

    Words and Music by Peter P. Bilhorn, 1865–1936 Great peace have they who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble. (Psalm 119:165) The blessing of peace is the one prize that often eludes those who seem to have attained everything else in life. Yet peace is one of the choice gifts left to…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the…

  • VISION & REALITY

    My Utmost For His Highest And the parched ground shall become a pool. Isaiah 35:7. We always have visions before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt…

  • LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS

    Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea. (Isaiah 48:18) Our gift of salvation includes more than pardon from sin, deliverance from hell, and a guarantee to heaven. It includes everything we need to…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Divine love is rendered conspicuous when it shines in the midst of judgments. Fair is that lone star which smiles through the rifts of the thunder clouds; bright is the oasis which blooms in the wilderness of sand; so fair and so bright is love in the midst of wrath. When the Israelites provoked the…

  • DON’T CALCULATE WITHOUT GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. Psalm 37:5. Don’t calculate without God. God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not…