Category Archives: Bible

S.B. Shaw This 19th century book is a book about answered prayers, how God has answered prayer in ordinary people’s lives. The stories can comfort, inspire, and warm your heart. It a book that reminds Christians that God never forgets to care for the abandoned, the old, the sick, the young, and the persecuted. Shaw’sContinue reading “Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer”

December 31st Yesterday The God of Israel will be your rereward. Isaiah 52:12. Security from Yesterday. “God requireth that which is past.” At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment ofContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 31 “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” (1 Samuel 7:12.) THE word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet “hitherto hath the Lord helped us?” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health; at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea; inContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

31 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) What do you choose? ‘They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ Jeremiah 50:5SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Deuteronomy 30:11–20 Some of you I trust are thus minded.Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 30th “And every virtue we possess” All my fresh springs shall be in Thee. Psalm 87:7 (P.B.V.). Our Lord never patches up our natural virtues, He remakes the whole man on the inside. “Put on the new man”—see that your natural human life puts on the garb that is in keeping with the newContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”