Plentiful Refreshment

“Their soul shall be as a watered garden.” Jeremiah 31:12. Oh, to have one’s soul under heavenly cultivation; no longer a wilderness but a garden of the Lord! Enclosed from the waste, walled around by grace, planted by instruction, visited by love, weeded by heavenly discipline, and guarded by divine power, one’s favored soul is…

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Out of Any Circumstance

“As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.” Psalm 55:16. Yes, I must and will pray. What else can I do! What better can I do? Betrayed, forsaken, grieved, baffled, O my Lord, I will call upon Thee. My Ziklag is in ashes, and men speak of stoning me;…

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Word of the Lord

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through…

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Choice Men

“See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10. This has long been the motto fixed before our eye upon the wall of our bedroom, and in many ways it has also been written on our heart. It is no mean thing to be…

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