Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to confront it with God’s help and overcome it. Haman’s time bomb had been triggered. “The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan.” Having accomplished what they thought was a good day’s work, “the king and Haman sat down to […]
CHRIST OUR SUFFICIENCY: “Christ is all and in all” (Col 3:11). After his conversion in 1834, Isaac Marsden, a drygoods salesman, “went everywhere preaching the word” (Acts 8:4), in the streets, markets, pubs, wherever he could find a hearing. Often criticized for his bombastic style, he nonetheless saw thousands saved. Here is some of his […]
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints” (Eph 6:18). Notice the four alls. Pray at all times with all prayer with all perseverance for all saints. Peter Deyneka Sr., founder of the Slavic Gospel Association, moved from Russia […]
A.T. Pierson told of Alexander MacLaren using the illustration of a compass “with one foot firmly set in the true center, and the other describing a circle which, while that center was preserved, could not possibly err in width or range of circumference. Our first necessity is to get the truth center and fix there […]
Have you ever seen those floral clocks? This tourist thought he’d try to fix one. Lesson: God’s timing is always perfect. Be encouraged, Christian…the Lord is on schedule. And He’s coming soon. […]
When history seems to hang by a thread, remember: “He hangs the earth on nothing” (Job 26:7). Haman had the heart of a monster, the ear of the king, and a plot hatched in hell. Yet he still seemed to have everything going his way. You can’t help but notice his likeness to the coming Man of […]
CHRIST the HOPE of ISRAEL (Jer 17:13). As David Baron writes, the Great Intercessor “bears also ‘His own’ nation Israel on His heart. It was for them primarily that He prayed on the cross. And now at God’s right hand He still pleads for them: ‘For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and […]
“The earth, O Lord, is full of Your mercy; teach me Your statutes” (Ps 119:64). Beautiful, isn’t it! What a positive way of acknowledging that the world is actually full of broken-hearted sinners, of the wreckage of the wrong actions we have committed against God and one another. The psalmist focuses instead on God’s amazing […]
“There is none upon earth that I desire beside Thee” (Ps 73:25). In his book Heaven’s Cure for Earth’s Care, George Henderson tells the following story: A Christian woman who had just finished reading T.H. Huxley’s Life and Letters was asked with some anxiety by a friend whether her faith had suffered any eclipse under […]