Category Archives: Bible

December 28th Continuous conversion Except ye be converted, and become as little children.… Matthew 18:3. These words of Our Lord are true of our initial conversion, but we have to be continuously converted all the days of our lives, continually to turn to God as children. If we trust to our wits instead of toContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 28 “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.”(Phil. 4:4.) “An’ when He hears yo’ sing, He bends down wid a smile on His kin’ face an’ listens mighty keerful, an’ He says, ’Sing on, chile, I hears, an’ I’s comin’ down to deliber yo’: I’ll tote dat load fer yo’; jestContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

28 DECEMBER (PREACHED NEW YEAR’S EVENING 1774) Asking the way to Zion ‘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: Psalm 119:33–40 They shall ask the way. This intimates:(i)Continue reading “365 days with Newton”

December 27th Where the battle’s lost and won If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord.… Jeremiah 4:1. The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. The Spirit of God apprehends me and I am obliged to get alone with GodContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

December 27 “His soul entered into iron.” (Psalm 105:18.) TURN, that about and render it in our language, and it reads thus, “Iron entered his soul.” Is there not a truth in this? That sorrow and privation, the yoke borne in the youth, the soul’s enforced restraint, are all conducive to an iron tenacity andContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”