Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalm 23:4. Sweet are these words in describing a deathbed assurance. How many have repeated them in their last hours with intense delight! But the verse is equally applicable to agonies of spirit in the…
Read MoreMay I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame. Psalm 119:80. We may regard this inspired prayer as containing within itself the assurance that those who keep close to the Word of God shall never have cause to be ashamed of doing so. See, the prayer is for soundness of heart. A sound…
Read More“Now will I arise,” says the Lord. “Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up”. Isaiah 33:10. When the spoilers had made the land as waste as if devoured by locusts, and the warriors who had defended the country sat down and wept like women, then the Lord came to the rescue. When travelers ceased from…
Read MoreFor the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory. Deuteronomy 20:4. We have no enemies but the enemies of God. Our fights are not against men but against spiritual wickednesses. We war with the devil and the blasphemy and error and despair which he brings into…
Read MoreWhoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. Matthew 13:12. When the Lord has given to a man much grace, He will give him more. A little faith is a nest egg; more faith will come to it. But…
Read MoreMay the Lord bless you from Zion; may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. Psalm 128:5. This is a promise to the God-fearing man who walks in the ways of holiness with earnest heed. He shall have domestic blessedness; his wife and children shall be a source of great home happiness. But then as…
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