The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14. Precious promise! Lord, enable me to appropriate it as all my own. We must go at certain times from our abode, for here we have no continuing city. It often happens that when we feel most at home…
Read More“Your sorrow shall be turned into joy.” John 16:20. Their particular sorrow was the death and absence of their Lord, and it was turned into joy when He rose from the dead and showed Himself in their midst. All the sorrows of saints shall be thus transmuted, even the worst of them, which look as…
Read More“What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’” Zechariah 4:7. At this hour a mountain of difficulty, distress, or necessity may be in our way, and natural reason sees no path over it, or through…
Read More“I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Psalm 81:10. What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request…
Read More“He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.” John 16:14. The Holy Ghost Himself cannot better glorify the Lord Jesus than by showing to us Christ’s own things. Jesus is His own best commendation. There is no adorning Him except with his own…
Read More“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.” Hebrews 4:9. God has provided a…
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