Author: Bill Nicholson
Posts by Bill Nicholson
January 21 Petition Mission
“With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!” (Ps 119:10). Webster defines “wandering” as “to move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal.” To everyone else around us, we may seem to be focused and disciplined. But the Lord knows that a life aimed at anything […]
January 21, 2025 — Revive Us Again!
“Nothing with God is too good to be true; the truth is the best of everything.” —R.J. Campbell As we continue to read of the celebration at the temple, it’s hard to believe that only a few months before incense had been ascending from every hill and on every street corner in Jerusalem to the […]
January 21
Whatever you know of God’s truth, do it. That is what the disciples were told in John 2:5, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” Above all, it is what the Lord says, “You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you” (Jn 15:14). We never read of purifying our souls in hearing […]
January 20 Petition Mission
“Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.…Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you…” (Ps 55:17, 22). The Lord doesn’t just sustain your burden when cast on Him; He sustains you! Adrian Rogers writes: “The greatest problem we face is not […]
January 20, 2025 — Heaven’s Love Song
Song gives wings to the soul. We sing our sweetest to the One who put the new song in our hearts. It has to be one of the most descriptive—and delightful—sentences in the Chronicles: “And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord also began” (2 Chron 29:27). How could the burnt offering be described? […]
January 20
Sir Moses Montefiore was the most famous Jew in the 19th Century. Linked by marriage and business to the Rothschilds, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and renowned for his philanthropy. He had an aunt Lydia in Marseille who was a determined Jewess. One day she received a visit from J.P. Cohen, a Jewish believer. […]
January 19 Petition Mission
“We pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20, KJV). Harry Ironside tells of visiting an emaciated hospital patient who was nearing death: “I told him I was anxious to know how he stood as to the matter of his soul’s salvation. ‘Oh,’ was the reply, ‘I’m all right as […]