Category Archives: Bible

September 7th Springs of benignity The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water. John 4:14. The picture Our Lord gives is not that of a channel but a fountain. ‘Be being filled,’ and the sweetness of vital relationship to Jesus will flow out of the saint as lavishlyContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

September 7 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1.) THE question often comes, “Why didn’t He help me sooner?” It is not His order. He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from it. His promise is, “I will be withContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

7 SEPTEMBER None like him ‘Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, throughContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

September 6th Diffusiveness of life Rivers of living water. John 7:38. A river touches places of which its source knows nothing, and Jesus says if we have received of His fulness, however small the visible measure of our lives, out of us will flow the rivers that will bless to the uttermost parts of theContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

September 6 “Thou remainest.” (Heb. 1:11.) THERE are always lone hearth-fires; so many! And those who sit beside them, with the empty chair, cannot restrain the tears that will come. One sits alone so much. There is some One unseen, just here within reach. But somehow we don’t realize His presence. Realizing is blessed, but—rare.Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”