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HIS NAME IS WONDERFUL
Amazing Grace Words and Music by Audrey Mieir, 1916– For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6 KJV) More than 2,500 years…
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Morning & Evening
The head and members are of one nature, and not like that monstrous image which Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. The head was of fine gold, but the belly and thighs were of brass, the legs of iron, and the feet, part of iron and part of clay. Christ’s mystical body is no absurd combination…
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THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST
My Utmost For His Highest Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Genesis 41:40. I have to account to God for the way in which I rule my body under His domination. Paul said he did not “frustrate the grace of God”—make it of no effect. The grace of God is absolute,…
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THAT BEAUTIFUL NAME
Amazing Grace Jean Perry, 1865–1935 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. (Matthew 1:21) There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven,The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior…
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Morning & Evening
We know of a place in England still existing, where a dole of bread is served to every passerby who chooses to ask for it. Whoever the traveller may be, he has but to knock at the door of St. Cross Hospital, and there is the dole of bread for him. Jesus Christ so loveth…
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THE LAW OF ANTAGONISM
My Utmost For His Highest To him that overcometh.… Rev. 2:7. Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This is the open fact of life. Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only…
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BLESSED BE THE NAME
Amazing Grace W. H. Clark, 19th century, Refrain by Ralph E. Hudson, 1843–1901 I will exalt You, my God the King; I will praise Your name for ever and ever … for you have exalted above all things Your name and Your Word. (Psalm 145:1 and Psalm 138:2) The Bible teaches that there are two…
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Morning & Evening
This should be a great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of…
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NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER
My Utmost For His Highest And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 1 Cor. 2:4. If in preaching the Gospel you substitute your clear knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the Gospel, you…
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COME, THOU LONG-EXPECTED JESUS
Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come … (Haggai 2:7 KJV) Anticipation is a necessary and important part of every believer’s life. In Old Testament times the people anxiously awaited a Messianic Kingdom. Today we should be waiting with the same urgent expectancy as…
