Eternity strides toward us. Finding joy in Christ now prepares us for the unbroken joy of heaven. Do you “direct” your prayers? David did. “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct it to You, and I will look up” (Ps 5:3). To “direct” (Heb, ‘ârak) means “to arrange, set in order.” […]
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CHRIST the ANTITYPE: In His passion to reveal the fullness of God in Christ, the Spirit inspired many “types” to picture Him. The “anti” in antitype does not mean the opposite of, but the comparison of. It does not mean “against” but “over against” as a portrait and its subject would be placed side-by-side to […]
“…Teach us what we shall do for the child” (Jdg 13:8). These words of Manoah express the concern we all should feel when a child comes into this world. J. Wilbur Chapman, standing in the store of New York’s famous jeweller, Tiffany & Co., saw a salesman showing a woman a $17,000 pearl, and then […]
“For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Cor 16:9). “Praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ…” (Col 4:3). “Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God […]
CHRIST the THEME of PROPHECY: “To Him all the prophets witness” (Acts 10:43). Divine prophecy is different from human predictions in three key ways: it must be sufficiently remote in time that it could not be anticipated as a logical trend, sufficiently specific in detail that it could not be contrived as one of many […]
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days” (Dan 6:10). S.D. Gordon writes, “A life […]
One evening, H.A. Ironside came upon a gospel meeting at the corner of Market and Grant in San Francisco. When they recognized Ironside, they asked if he would give his testimony. As he closed, a well-dressed man gave him a card. He read it aloud: “Sir, I challenge you to debate in the Academy of […]
CHRIST said, “I AM the Bread of Life” (Jn 6:35). Harold St. John writes: When Moses was about to start on his mission to deliver Israel, in answer to his question, God said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Ex 3:14). It is significant that […]
“Then the king said to me, ‘What do you request?’ So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king…” (Neh 2:4-5). How long does it take to change the course of history through prayer? Nehemiah’s prayer was momentary, but it led to a chain of events that rebuilt Jerusalem and […]