Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ALONE WITH GOD?

    My Utmost For His Highest When they were alone, He expounded all things to His disciples. Mark 4:34. Our Solitude with Him. Jesus does not take us alone and expound things to us all the time; He expounds things to us as we can understand them. Other lives are parables. God is making us spell…

  • JESUS, SAVIOR PILOT ME

    Amazing Grace Edward Hopper, 1818–1888 Thou wilt show me the path of life. In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. (Psalm 16:11 KJV) “Lord, save us; we perish,” the disciples cried, and instantly Christ arose to rebuke the winds of the storm and calm the sea.…

  • Morning & Evening

    “Ye are Christ’s.” You are his by donation, for the Father gave you to the Son; his by his bloody purchase, for he counted down the price for your redemption; his by dedication, for you have consecrated yourself to him; his by relation, for you are named by his name, and made one of his…

  • WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLE

    My Utmost For His Highest They laid hold upon one Simon, … and on him they laid the cross Luke 23:26. If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does…

  • Morning & Evening

    My soul, examine thyself this morning by the light of this text. Thou hast received the word with joy; thy feelings have been stirred and a lively impression has been made; but, remember, that to receive the word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into thy very soul is quite another;…

  • THE OPENED SIGHT

    My Utmost For His Highest To open their eyes, … that they may receive … Acts 26:18. This verse is the grandest condensation of the propaganda of a disciple of Jesus Christ in the whole of the New Testament. The first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the words—“that they may receive remission…

  • WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS

    Amazing Grace Joseph Scriven, 1819–1886 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. (Proverbs 18:24 KJV) A true friend loves and accepts us just as we are, stays close to us in good or in bad, and is always ready to help in…

  • Morning & Evening

    Doubting one! thou hast often said, “I fear I shall never enter heaven.” Fear not! all the people of God shall enter there. I love the quaint saying of a dying man, who exclaimed, “I have no fear of going home; I have sent all before me; God’s finger is on the latch of my…

  • INTERCESSORY INTROSPECTION

    My Utmost For His Highest And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. 1 Thess. 5:23. “Your whole spirit …” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which we cannot get at. Read the 139th Psalm; the Psalmist implies—‘Thou art…

  • PRAYER IS THE SOUL’S SINCERE DESIRE

    Amazing Grace James Montgomery, 1771–1854 Men ought always to pray, and not to faint. (Luke 18:1 KJV) Living a life without prayer is like building a house without nails.— Unknown Prayer is releasing the energies of God. For prayer is asking God to do what we cannot do ourselves.— Selected Except for Charles Wesley or…