We are not only to do God's will, but to also seek to do it with the proper motive. The manner in which we serve God should be considered more than the work itself. Motive is a main emphasis in Script...  Read More

The Lord works in us unto the very last. After conversion, he continues his grace to help us do his will. All we have is by his gracious gift. What can we be proud of? All of the excellencies that we ...  Read More

God is an eternal God, and he knows all things as present. In God's mind, all things are one point, not a succession of things. God's knowledge does not depend upon the revolutions of time. His knowed...  Read More

God is a perpetual refuge and security to his people. His providence is not combined to one generation. His bounty and compassion extend across the ages. His eyes have never slept. He has never allowe...  Read More

It is not those who just hear the Word, but do it. Many have the Word in their mind and memory, but not in their lives. The truly blessed men are those that consider it a great obligation to obey it. ...  Read More

The humble soul endeavours more how to glorify God in afflictions, than how to get out of them. Daniel, the three children, the apostles, and those worthies of whom this world was not worthy were such...  Read More

Christ worked out our salvation that we might have peace, joy, heaven and glory forever. He was set forth sweating blood in agony and wrestling with the thoughts of death which he was to suffer for ou...  Read More

The salvation of the soul is such a wonderful thing that no other thing should come before it. Men are ignorant of the worth of their souls, and their danger. Alas! How common it is for men to spend a...  Read More

If we pray, this is always sure: ‘If we ask, we shall receive.’ The Lord has said it; it is so, it must be so. How can we strengthen our faith to believe this? Consider these: (1.) Through faith in Ch...  Read More

To pray properly is not any easy matter. To pour out your heart and soul before God, to believe he hears and will come to help you; to pray in faith and to wrestle with him; to strive for a blessing a...  Read More

We may judge how we respect God’s name and kingdom by our obedience to his will. This request in the Lord's prayer seeks a soft and pliable heart that we might be ruled by him. Christ is not our king ...  Read More

The Christian is to proclaim and initiate an irreconcilable war against his choice sins. Those nearest his heart must now be trampled under his feet. This takes great courage and resolution. O how a l...  Read More

Christ Jesus set himself wholly apart for believers. We may say, 'Lord, condemnation was yours, that justification might be mine; agony was yours, and victory mine; pain was yours, and ease is mine; s...  Read More

Carnal reasoning will tell you that God does not see or govern, but has left the earth. But as we go into the presence of God we learn that all things are beautiful in their time (Eccles. 3:11). All o...  Read More

Sense is the light of beasts, reason the light of men, faith the light of saints, and vision the light of glory. The important issues of life can only be discerned by faith. In our immediate experienc...  Read More

As we grow in the knowledge of Christ's love, we enjoy more of the fullness of God. In heaven we will know fully what we now only know in part (1 Cor. 13:12). Although the love of Christ surpasses our...  Read More

You cannot mortify a specific lust that is troubling you, unless you are seeking to obey the Lord from the heart in all areas. If a man finds a particular lust that is powerful and violent and it take...  Read More

To constantly fight against sin is a big part of mortification. We need to recognize the enemy we are dealing with and that he is to be destroyed by all means possible. The battle is a hazardous one t...  Read More

As we walk with our God we desire his strength, comfort, power and peace. The realization of these, and thus the joy of our spiritual life, depends greatly upon the mortification of sin. The immediate...  Read More

The Holy Spirit is our only sufficiency for the work of mortification. He is the only great power behind it and he works in us as he pleases. God promised his Spirit for this very work. He alone works...  Read More

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Do not take a day off from this work; always be killing sin or it will be killing you. We must strike it as an enemy until it ceases living. Sin is labo...  Read More

If you seek to express your faith in a stronger fashion, focus your spiritual eye on your heavenly delights. You do not need to go out of the world or into some seclusion from society to do this. In t...  Read More

How many people do you know that truly live by faith? Do you live by faith? What were your thoughts this morning? What was your heart's nourishment? Were entertainment and food of greater joy than you...  Read More

Faith realizes that our current state is not the result of the axe of judgment, but the pruning knife of affliction. It is not a cup to poison but to heal, no matter how bitter the taste. You are kept...  Read More