Category Archives: Bible

February 8th Instantaneous and insistent sanctification And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly. 1 Thess. 5:23–24 . When we pray to be sanctified, are we prepared to face the standard of these verses? We take the term sanctification much too lightly. Are we prepared for what sanctification will cost? It will cost anContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 7th The discipline of dejection But we trusted … and beside all this, to-day is the third day … Luke 24:21. Every fact that the disciples stated was right; but the inferences they drew from those facts were wrong. Anything that savours of dejection spiritually is always wrong. If depression and oppression visit me,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 6th Are you ready to be offered? I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 2 Tim. 4:6 (R.V. marg.). “I am now ready to be offered.” It is a transaction of will, not of sentiment. Tell God you are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may,Continue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

February 10 “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves.” (Rom. 12:19) THERE are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. To the vilest and most deadly charges Jesus responded with deep, unbroken silence, such as excited the wonder of the judge and the spectators.Continue reading “Streams in the Desert”

February 9 “He answered her not a word.” (Matt. 15:23.) “He will be silent in his love.” (Zeph. 3:17.) IT may be a child of God is reading these words who has had some great crushing sorrow, some bitter disappointment, some heart-breaking blow from a totally unexpected quarter. You are longing for your Master’s voiceContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”