Category Archives: Bible

October 9th Pull yourself together Yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. Romans 6:13–22 . I cannot save and sanctify myself; I cannot atone for sin; I cannot redeem the world; I cannot make right what is wrong, pure what is impure, holy what is unholy. That is all the sovereign work of God.Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

October 9 “Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you.” (Isaiah 30:18.) WHERE showers fall most, there the grass is greenest. I suppose the fogs and mists of Ireland make it “the Emerald Isle”; and whenever you find great fogs of trouble, and mists of sorrow, you always find emerald greenContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

9 OCTOBER (PREACHED 1770) Asleep on duty ‘But Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep …’ Luke 9:32SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 26:36–46 They were heavy with sleep. If this had not been recorded we should have little expected that, on such an affecting and extraordinary occasion, the disciples should be overpoweredContinue reading “365 days with Newton”

October 8th The exclusiveness of Christ Come unto Me. Matthew 11:28. Is it not humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things we will not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words—“Come unto Me.” In every degreeContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

October 8 “Do not begin to be anxious.” (Phil. 4:6, P. B. V.) NOT a few Christians live in a state of unbroken anxiety, and others fret and fume terribly. To be perfectly at peace amid the hurly-burly of daily life is a secret worth knowing. What is the use of worrying? It never madeContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”