Do You Understand What You Are Reading? ACTS 8 : 30 We would be more able teachers, and not so easily carried away by every wind of doc- trine, if we sought to have a more intelligent understanding of the Word of God. As the Holy Spirit, the Author of the Scriptures, is the only…
The Unrelieved Quest “Feed My sheep.” John 21:17 This is love in the making. The love of God is tin-made, it is God’s nature. When we receive the Holy Spirit He unites us with God so that His love is manifested in us. When the soul is united to God by the indwelling Holy Spirit,…
Touchstones For Encounter – Acts 10:1-4,33,44. Touchstones are criterion or benchmarks that qualifies for something. The text above is a lively illustration of the encounter of Cornelius, who became the documented novel receiver of the Holy Spirit among the Gentile race. He exemplified a life of religious devotion, godly fear, charity, and a consistent prayer…
Awake, O North Wind, And Come, O South Wind! Blow Upon My Garden, Let Its Spices Flow. Song Of Solomon 4 : 16 Anything is better than the dead calm of indifference. Our souls may wisely desire the north wind of trouble if that is to become the means of our sanctification. So long as…
. . . For He Has Said . . . Hebrews 13 : 5 If we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand. What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there that shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before…
Have You Felt The Hurt Of The Lord? “Jesus said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me?” John 21:17 Have you felt the hurt of the Lord to the uncovered quick, the place where the real sensitiveness of your life is lodged? The devil never hurts there, neither sin nor human affection hurts there,…
Be ready in the morning, and then come up Be ready in the morning, and then come up. . . . Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. No one is to come with you. (Exodus 34:2–3) The morning is a critically important time of day. You must never face the day…
The Foolish Virgins “Then the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. The five of them were wise, and five were foolish” Matt. 25:1-2 The story of the ten virgins is doubtless one of the evergreen stories of the bible. Painfully, this story…
…no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous… “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous; nevertheless afterward” (Heb. 12 vs 11). God seems to love to work by paradoxes and contraries. In the transformations of grace, the bitter is the base of the sweet, night is the…
