Category: Genesis to Revelation

  • MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE

    Amazing Grace Ray Palmer, 1808–1887 In whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in Him. (Ephesians 3:12 RSV) “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” was written in 1832 by Ray Palmer, a 22-year-old school teacher. Several months after his graduation from Yale University and while still living with the family of…

  • Morning & Evening

    How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in his saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we often have to groan, being burdened; conscious of our sinfulness, and deploring our unfaithfulness; and we fear that…

  • YHVH, Our Need – He Meets

    Αδωναι – Adonai We know that YHVH is Absolute Sovereign, that he reigns in the kingdoms of men in that he can move king’s hearts as a stream: THE king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Proverbs 21:1 Father God is Omniscient, and…

  • JESUS, THE VERY THOUGHT OF THEE

    Amazing Grace Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091–1153English Translation—Edward Caswall, 1814–1876 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. (Psalm 42:1, 2) This hymn text comes from the height of the Middle Ages, a period of history often…

  • Morning & Evening

    Gideon ordered his men to do two things: covering up a torch in an earthen pitcher, he bade them, at an appointed signal, break the pitcher and let the light shine, and then sound with the trumpet, crying, “The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon! the sword of the Lord, and of Gideon!” This…

  • ASK YE WHAT GREAT THING I KNOW

    Amazing Grace Johann C. Schwedler, 1672–1730Translated by Benjamin H. Kennedy, 1804–1889 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. (1 Corinthians 2:2) A question that many struggle with today is “What is the real purpose of living?” Or, “What is the ultimate reality or joy in…

  • Morning & Evening

    This “liberty” makes us free to heaven’s charter—the Bible. Here is a choice passage, believer, “When thou passest through the rivers, I will be with thee.” You are free to that. Here is another: “The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee”; you are free to…

  • SECOND ADVENT, NO MAN KNOWS THE HOUR

    In scripture the Lord Jesus Christ tells us, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no not the Angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Matthew 24:36). Undeterred, men set dates as to when Yeshua is going to return. This foolishness causes unbelievers to mock Christianity, and is a terrible witness to those…

  • NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Cleland B. McAfee, 1866–1944 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy. (Psalm 94:19) O Thou who dry’st the mourner’s tears! How dark this world would be,If, when deceived and wounded here, we could not fly to Thee.—Thomas Moore Life is often filled with unexpected problems or…

  • Morning & Evening

    The two most important things in our holy religion are the life of faith and the walk of faith. He who shall rightly understand these is not far from being a master in experimental theology, for they are vital points to a Christian. You will never find true faith unattended by true godliness; on the…