Tag: Devotional

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Labour to maintain a sense of thine entire dependence upon the Lord’s good will and pleasure for the continuance of thy richest enjoyments. Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus, or thou art undone for ever. Old anointings will not suffice to…

  • THE POINT OF SPIRITUAL HONOR

    My Utmost For His Highest I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians. Romans 1:14 Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent himself to express it. The great inspiration in Paul’s life was his view of Jesus Christ as his spiritual creditor. Do I…

  • HE HIDETH MY SOUL

    Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand. (Exodus 33:22) The beloved blind American poet Fanny Jane Crosby did not begin writing gospel texts until her mid-forties. But from then on, inspiring words seemed to flow constantly from her heart, and she became…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, therefore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and barometer, of vital and experimental religion. Burn here the fat of your sacrifices. Let your closet seasons be,…

  • FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS

    Hugh Stowell, 1799–1865 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you … (Isaiah 43:2) God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,That He may speak, perchance through grief or pain;And softly, heart to heart, above the dinMay teach some precious truth to us again.— Unknown In Old Testament worship, the mercy…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    God’s altar was to be built of unhewn stones, that no trace of human skill or labour might be seen upon it. Human wisdom delights to trim and arrange the doctrines of the cross into a system more artificial and more congenial with the depraved tastes of fallen nature; instead, however, of improving the gospel…

  • THE PRICE OF VISION

    My Utmost For His Highest In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Isaiah 6:1. Our soul’s history with God is frequently the history of the “passing of the hero.” Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is…

  • A SHELTER IN THE TIME OF STORM

    Vernon J. Charlesworth, 1838–1915 with alteration You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. (Psalm 32:7) Storms often hit the northern coast of England bringing distress to the many small fishing vessels that ply the coastal waters. It is reported that “A Shelter in the…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Anger is not always or necessarily sinful, but it has such a tendency to run wild that whenever it displays itself, we should be quick to question its character, with this enquiry, “Doest thou well to be angry?” It may be that we can answer, “YES.” Very frequently anger is the madman’s firebrand, but sometimes…