Tag: Devotional

  • IN TIMES LIKE THESE

    Words and Music by Ruth Caye Jones, 1902–1972 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” (John 6:68) Wars, earthquakes, famines, violence, drugs, child abuse, humanism, the occult, New Age … When world events and ideologies like these seem ominous and unsettling to us or when…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    It was far above the power of nature, and even contrary to its laws, that the aged Sarah should be honoured with a son; and even so it is beyond all ordinary rules that I, a poor, helpless, undone sinner, should find grace to bear about in my soul the indwelling Spirit of the Lord…

  • GET A MOVE ON

    My Utmost For His Highest In the Matter of Determination. Abide in Me. John 15:4. The Spirit of Jesus is put into me by the Atonement, then I have to construct with patience the way of thinking that is exactly in accordance with my Lord. God will not make me think like Jesus, I have…

  • ROOM AT THE CROSS FOR YOU

    Words and Music by Ira R. Stanphill, 1914–1994 But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) Out of the varied experiences of a fruitful life have come the many moving hymns of Ira F. Stanphill. As a child he traveled by covered…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The teaching of these words must seem very surprising to those who are strangers to vital godliness, but to the sincere believer it is only the inculcation of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is here described as a delight in God, and we are thus certified of the great fact that true…

  • GETTING THERE

    Where the selective affinity dies and the sanctified abandon lives. Come ye after Me. Mark 1:17. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that…

  • LET JESUS COME INTO YOUR HEART

    Words and Music by Lelia N. Morris, 1862–1929 I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation. (2 Corinthians 6:2) Gospel songs that urgently ask people to respond to Christ’s invitation for salvation have had a powerful influence in evangelism since they were first written shortly after the…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Jesus says, “take freely.” He wants no payment or preparation. He seeks no recommendation from our virtuous emotions. If you have no good feelings, if you be but willing, you are invited; therefore come! You have no belief and no repentance,—come to him, and he will give them to you. Come just as you are,…

  • GETTING THERE

    My Utmost For His Highest Where the self-interest sleeps and the real interest awakens: Master, where dwellest Thou?… Come and see.… Come with Me. John 1:39. “They abode with Him that day.” That is about all some of us ever do, then we wake up to actualities, self-interest arises and the abiding is passed. There…

  • THE NINETY AND NINE

    Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1830–1869 There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent. (Luke 15:7) The Bible teaches that man does not seek after God, but that God initiates the search for lost man. “The Ninety and Nine,” based on the…