Our Field of Battle

For 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…

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Possess, Not Only Profess

Whoever 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…

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Home Blessings Extended

May 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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He Constantly Abides

For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own. 1 Samuel 12:22. God’s choice of His people is the reason for His abiding by them and not forsaking them. He chose them for His love, and He loves them for His choice. His own good pleasure is the source…

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Divine Cultivation

I, the Lord, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it. Isaiah 27:3. When the Lord Himself speaks in His own proper person rather than through a prophet, the word has a peculiar weight to believing minds. It is Jehovah Himself who is the keeper of His own vineyard; He does…

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Dwelling Safely Apart

So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew. Deuteronomy 33:28. The more we dwell alone, the more safe shall we be. God would have His people separate from sinners, His call to them is, “Come ye out from among them.”…A worldly Christian is spiritually diseased.…

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