September 30 Needs to Open Our Mouths Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. (Psalm 81:10) What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter…
September 29 To Glorify Christ Jesus He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. (John 16:14) The Holy Ghost Himself cannot better glorify the Lord Jesus than by showing to us Christ’s own things. Jesus is His own best commendation. There is no adorning Him except with…
September 28 Work is Done; Rest in Him There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. (Hebrews 4:9) God has provided a Sabbath, and some must enter into it. Those to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief; therefore, that Sabbath remains for the people of God. David sang…
September 27 The Divine Light in Darkness For thou wilt light my candle. (Psalm 18:28) It may be that my soul sits in darkness; and if this be of a spiritual kind, no human power can bring me light. Blessed be God! He can enlighten my darkness and at once light my candle. Even though…
September 26 Among the Redeemed Lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be redeemed among the nations. (Numbers 23:9) Who would wish to dwell among the nations and to be numbered with them? Why, even the professing church is such that to follow the Lord fully within its bounds is very difficult. There…
September 25 The Sacrifice Has Been Accepted If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing. (Judges 13:23) This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly…
September 24 The Life-Giving Stream And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live. (Ezekiel 47:9) The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them, even into that stagnant lake. Where grace goes, spiritual life is…
September 23 Deliverance from Dust and Chaff For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:9) The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are…
September 22 Broad Rivers Without Galleys But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. (Isaiah 33:21) The Lord will be to us the greatest good without any of the drawbacks which seem necessarily to…
September 21 Let Trials Bless Knowing that tribulation worketh patience. (Romans 5:3) This is a promise in essence if not in form. We have need of patience, and here we see the way of getting it. It is only by enduring that we learn to endure, even as by swimming men learn to swim. You…