Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • VISION AND DARKNESS

    My Utmost For His Highest An horror of great darkness fell upon him. Genesis 15:12. Whenever God gives a vision to a saint, He puts him, as it were, in the shadow of His hand, and the saint’s duty is to be still and listen. There is a darkness which comes from excess of light,…

  • BE STILL MY SOUL

    Amazing Grace Katharina von Schlegel, 1697–?English Translation-Jane L. Borthwick, 1813–1897 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. (Psalm 46:10) Spiritual revivals throughout history have always been accompanied by an outburst of new song. This was especially true of the 16th…

  • Morning & Evening

    Tell me where you lost the company of a Christ, and I will tell you the most likely place to find him. Have you lost Christ in the closet by restraining prayer? Then it is there you must seek and find him. Did you lose Christ by sin? You will find Christ in no other…

  • IT IS THE LORD!

    My Utmost For His Highest Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God. John 20:28. “Give Me to drink.” How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not drawing on…

  • SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY

    Amazing Grace John W. Peterson, 1921 – 2006Alfred B. Smith, 1916 – 2001 Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of Your love; in Your great mercy turn to me. (Psalm 69:16) Charles Haddon Spurgeon, known as the “Prince of Preachers” of the 19th century, labored for more than 20 years on his unrivaled…

  • Morning & Evening

    How different will be the state of the believer in heaven from what it is here! Here he is born to toil and suffer weariness, but in the land of the immortal, fatigue is never known. Anxious to serve his Master, he finds his strength unequal to his zeal: his constant cry is, “Help me…

  • THE VOCATION OF THE NATURAL LIFE

    My Utmost For His Highest But when it pleased God … to reveal His son in me … Gal. 1:15–16 . The call of God is not a call to any particular service; my interpretation of it may be, because contact with the nature of God has made me realize what I would like to…

  • THE KING OF LOVE MY SHEPHERD IS

    Amazing Grace Henry W. Baker, 1821–1877 For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. (Psalm 95:7) The beloved words of Psalm 23 have undoubtedly provided greater comfort and encouragement to God’s people through the years than any other portion of Scripture. In times of deep…

  • Morning & Evening

    The apostle John was privileged to look within the gates of heaven, and in describing what he saw, he begins by saying, “I looked, and, lo, a Lamb!” This teaches us that the chief object of contemplation in the heavenly state is “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.” Nothing…

  • THE VOICE OF THE NATURE OF GOD

    My Utmost For His Highest I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Isaiah 6:8. When we speak of the call of God, we are apt to forget the most important feature, viz., the nature of the One Who calls. There is the call of the sea, the call of the…