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May 30
CHRIST our CONSOLATION: “Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace, according to Your word; for my eyes have seen Your salvation” (Lk 2:29-30). Old Simeon, who prayed this prayer, was waiting for “the Consolation of Israel.” This is parakletos, the encourager, one who adds courage. In the days of the Scottish Covenanters, John Brown…
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May 30 Petition Mission
“Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?” (Ps 85:6). Maria Monsen, a Norwegian missionary in North China, began praying for revival. She sought a prayer partner who would join her in claiming the promise “that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will…
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May 30
Ravi Zacharias writes: “In the 1950s, Encyclopedia Britannica published its fifty-five-volume set, The Great Books of the Western World. One of the gifted minds behind the series was Mortimer Adler. The opening volume is a compilation of the great themes addressed by seminal thinkers during the last two millennia. Fascinatingly, the longest essay is on…
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May 29, 2026 — But It Was You!
You cannot betray a friend without, in the end, finding that you have stabbed your own heart. As with the last psalm, so with Psalm 55—David finds it soothing to have his thoughts accompanied by the strings section of the orchestra, especially when his nerves could be jangling because of those who “bring down trouble” on him…
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May 29
CHRIST the MESSIANIC HOPE: “We have found the Messiah” (Jn 1:41). How did Andrew know? The portrait of the Christ was so detailed and the Lord Jesus would match it at every point. He was the “seed” of the woman (Gen 3:15; Isa 7:14), born of the virgin Mary; from the tribe of Judah and…
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May 29 Petition Mission
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (Jas 5:16). It is not admired prayers we need, but availing ones; not expansive, but effective. We can do without the fancy kind, but not without the fervent kind. William Law writes: “It is not the arithmetic of our prayers, how many they are; nor…