Tag: Devotional

  • ALL HAIL THE POWER

    Amazing Grace Edward Perronet, 1726–1792Altered by John Rippon, 1751–1836 You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being. (Revelation 4:11) Sometimes called the “National Anthem of Christendom,” this is one of the truly great…

  • Morning & Evening

    This teaches us that the comfort obtained by one may often prove serviceable to another; just as wells would be used by the company who came after. We read some book full of consolation, which is like Jonathan’s rod, dropping with honey. Ah! we think our brother has been here before us, and digged this…

  • O WORSHIP THE KING

    Amazing Grace Robert Grant, 1779–1838 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth; sing to Him a psalm of praise. (Psalm 47:6, 7) The word worship is a contraction of an old expression in the English language, woerth-scipe, denoting the giving…

  • Morning & Evening

    Your Lord is very jealous of your love, O believer. Did he choose you? He cannot bear that you should choose another. Did he buy you with his own blood? He cannot endure that you should think that you are your own, or that you belong to this world. He loved you with such a…

  • O FOR A THOUSAND TONGUES

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. (Psalm 150:6) Soon after their graduation from Oxford University, John and Charles Wesley decided to sail to America, the new world, to try to minister to the rough colonists under General Oglethorpe in Georgia and to evangelize the Indians.…

  • Morning & Evening

    The Christian, while in the world, is not to be of the world. He should be distinguished from it in the great object of his life. To him, “to live,” should be “Christ.” Whether he eats, or drinks, or whatever he does, he should do all to God’s glory. You may lay up treasure; but…

  • MAJESTY

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Jack Hayford, 1934 – 2023 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8:1) There are many attributes of the Lord that should prompt our response of adoration and worship: His holiness, His power, His love … A very popular contemporary song by…

  • Morning & Evening

    Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called to the highest places in the ministry; but reader be it thine to rejoice that Jesus calleth whom he wills. If he shall leave me to be a doorkeeper in his house, I will cheerfully bless him for his grace in…

  • IMMORTAL, INVISIBLE

    Amazing Grace Walter Chalmers Smith, 1824–1908 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17) In our enjoyment of a personal relationship with God, we sometimes lose sight of the awe and reverence that should also be part of our worship of Him.…

  • Morning & Evening

    There are different translations of these words. One version renders it, “I will shew thee great and fortified things.” Another, “Great and reserved things.” Now, there are reserved and special things in Christian experience: all the developments of spiritual life are not alike easy of attainment. There are the common frames and feelings of repentance,…