“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…
Read More“You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.” Psalm 18:28. It may be that my soul sits in darkness; and if this be of a spiritual kind, no human power can bring me light. Blessed be God! He can enlighten my darkness and at once light my candle. Even though…
Read More“For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!” Numbers 23:9. Who would wish to dwell among the nations and to be numbered with them? Why, even the professing church is such that to follow the…
Read More“If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing.” Judges 13:23. This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly drawn from ascertained facts. It was not…
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