Is Your Hope In God Faint And Dying? “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee.” Isaiah 26:3 (R. V. marg.) Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in a worker’s…
Strengthened with all might unto all patience “Strengthened with all might unto all patience” (Col. 1. 11). The apostle prays for the Colossians, that they may be “strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.” It is one thing to endure and show the strain on every…
Overcoming the dominance of the flesh Romans 8:1-6, 13. The flesh is what people term as “my normal self”. It is the natural tendencies and conveniences of any man. The flesh can exact its dominance through any physical or spiritual activity (ies) done outside of the confines of God’s grace and will. The manifestations of…
Are you exhausted spiritually? “The everlasting God . . . fainteth not, neither is weary.” Isaiah 40:28 Exhaustion means that the vital forces are worn right out. Spiritual exhaustion never comes through sin but only through service, and whether or not you are exhausted will depend upon where you get your supplies. Jesus said to…
Now The Records Are Ancient. 1 CHRONICLES 4 : 22 But not so ancient as those precious things that are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, repeating them as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which He elected us unto eternal life, before creation,…
I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live “I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live” (Gal. ii. 20). Christ life is in harmony with our nature. A lady asked me the other day—a thoughtful, intelligent woman who was not a Christian, but who had the deepest hunger for that which is right: “How can…
Looking unto Jesus (Part 2) Hebrew 12:1-3. As we set out in our heavenly race, Jesus is the pacesetter who has shown us the pathway to a victorious Christian life- 1 Peter 2:21. There are various aspects of this life that we can emulate to have the kind of results He had. -His character: From…
Looking unto Jesus (Part 1) Hebrew 12:1-3. The first and primary duty of a believer is to be with Jesus (Matthew 3:14). The extent of our usefulness depends upon the quality of this personal relationship and continued focus on following His pattern (1 Peter 2:21). Even though our race in the kingdom is individually unique,…
He turned the sea into dry land, they passed through the waters on foot—come, let us rejoice in him. (Psalm 66:6) It is a profound statement that “through the waters,” the very place where we might have expected nothing but trembling, terror, anguish, and dismay, the children of Israel stopped to “rejoice in him”! How…
