“Then He is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him
from going down to the Pit: I have found a ransom.”
Job 33:24.
LET it never be forgotten that in all that God does, He acts from good reasons...
“He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.”
1 John 5:12.
LAST Sunday morning we addressed you upon the gracious operations of the Holy Spirit in the Believer,...
“One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.”
Isaiah 4...
“To whom coming.”
1 Peter 2:4.
THE Apostle is speaking of the Lord Jesus, of whom he had previously said, “If indeed you have tasted that the Lord
is gracious,” and He follows that sentence up w...
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have Grace, by which we may
serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”
Hebrew...
“And therefore will the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you and, therefore,
will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God
of judgment: blessed are all they th...
The world complains of affliction as the worst thing that can befall a
man—but for my part I never shall. Were it as bad as we apprehend,
how is it that from Adam to this very day, the saints hav...
“Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be?”
Luke 1:34.
ZACHARIAS and the Virgin Mary were both very dear to God and, therefore, highly honored and greatly favored.
The points of likeness...
“Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies, and envies and all evil speaking,
as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow
thereby. If, indeed, y...
“Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of My people because of them that dwell in a far country,
Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me to anger
with the...
The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away
into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom. He will discover your sins.”
L...
Almighty and everlasting God, You are the Alpha and the Omega—the First and the Last.
Amid all the vicissitudes of a changing world, You change not. All things below must
perish—but You remain th...
CHOICE EXCERPTS
Heavenly Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, I approach Your gracious presence. In the
extremity of my own weakness, may I lean on Your Almighty arm—hold me up, and I
shall be ...
11th Morning—THE SECRET OF STRENGTH
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Phil. 4:13
O God, I desire to come into Your gracious presence this morning,
adoring You as the God o...
“I have written to him the great things of My Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”
Hosea 8:12
This is God’s complaint against Ephraim. It is no mean proof of His goodness, that He stoo...
Luke 4:16-30 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath
day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll
of the prophet Isaiah was...
"How excellent is your loving-kindness, O God!" David speaks as one who had known it,
who had tasted that the Lord is gracious. He is here telling his experience to God himself,
but in the hearin...
“Oh that I were as in months past.”
Job 29:2.
FOR the most part the gracious Shepherd leads His people beside the still waters and makes them to lie down in
green pastures. But at times they wan...
"If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will
be!" – Deuteronomy 32:29
These are the words, not of anger, but of love, of disappointed affection, of a sorrowfu...