“In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation, I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time, behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Corinthians 6:2 If there is one word that expresses how the disciple of Christ is to live, it is the word, “fulness.” Christ…
“For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come, and will not tarry. Now, the just shall live by faith…” Hebrews 10:37,38 In the book of Habakkuk in the Old Testament, we find a man, one whom we call a minor prophet, who is terribly burdened by the judgement of God coming…
“Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you complete in every good work to do His will…” Hebrews 13:20,21 When the Apostle Paul wrote his letters to Timothy, as recorded in the Bible,…
“To me, who am less than the least of all saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ …” Ephesians 3:8 In J.S.B. Monsell’s great hymn, “Oh, Worship the Lord,” he writes: “Fear not to enter His courts in the slenderness of the POOR WEALTH thou…
“…I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to Him until that Day.” 2 Timothy 1:12 When the Lord Jesus Christ calls an individual to follow Him, it is more of a commitment of God to that person…
“And He (God) said to me, ‘Son of man, this is the place of My throne, and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile My holy name.” Ezekiel 43:7 When the Lord revealed…
“My God, My God, why have Your forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning?” Psalm 22:1 It was S. Crossman who wrote a beautiful, moving hymn entitled “My Song Is Love Unknown.” In that hymn he takes the reader along a path that illustrates what…
“And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, ‘For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.’” Genesis 32:30 How does God work in the soul of an individual to bring him to a saving knowledge of Himself? It begins always with the initiative of God who reveals Himself to…
“And Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old, when he departed from Haran.” Genesis 12:4 The story of Abraham, and how God made a man of faith out of him, is a wonderful picture of how God deals with men today. Though…
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 3:5,6 In the…