Tag: Devotional

  • THE EXTERNAL CRUSH OF THINGS

    My Utmost For His Highest I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. 1 Cor. 9:22. A Christian worker has to learn how to be God’s noble man or woman amid a crowd of ignoble things. Never make this plea—‘If only I were somewhere else!’ All God’s…

  • FAITH IS THE VICTORY

    John H. Yates, 1837–1900 … this is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. (1 John 5:4) Saving faith must always be reflected in a working faith. Our response of faith to the redemptive work of Christ transforms us; but then we need a daily motivating faith if we want to live…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the house—this is a Christian necessity, he is no Christian who doth not thus believe.…

  • THE VIEWPOINT

    My Utmost For His Highest Now thanks be to God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. 2 Cor. 2:14. The viewpoint of a worker for God must not be as near the highest as he can get, it must be the highest. Be careful to maintain strenuously God’s point of view, it has…

  • FAITH OF OUR FATHERS

    Frederick W. Faber, 1814–1863 Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. (Jude 3) If you don’t have a cause that is worth dying for, you very likely don’t have anything worth living for.— Unknown Often we fail to realize the great price many of our forefathers paid to establish…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have YOU to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning—“Have I been a wilderness unto you?” When your soul has simply trusted Jesus,…

  • NOT A BIT OF IT!

    My Utmost For His Highest If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away. 2 Cor. 5:17. Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite sure that God…

  • GOD OF OUR FATHERS

    Daniel C. Roberts, 1841–1907 If my people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14) After what I owe to God, nothing should…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have YOU to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning—“Have I been a wilderness unto you?” When your soul has simply trusted Jesus,…

  • THE WITNESS OF THE SPIRIT

    My Utmost For His Highest The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit … Romans 8:16 (R.V.). We are in danger of getting the barter spirit when we come to God, we want the witness before we have done what God tells us to do. ‘Why does not God reveal Himself to me?’ He cannot;…