“For who has despised the day of small things?” Zechariah 4:10 Dear Ones: Perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to faith, and believing God for the wonderful thing, is the assessment of our very small, and limited resources. We are apt to look within, and around us, take stock of the meagerness of human possibility,…
Dear Ones: When I was ministering in France, we attended a Brethren church where, when one was led to pray, he would stand and pray. There was one dear brother whose name was Emile. He was a farmer, who ran the farm with his brother. Emile was a very godly man. He would, without exception…
We do not know when Moses wrote Psalm 90, or at what age he was. What we do know is that he had thought the matter through concerning time (his time) and the eternity of God. The conclusion he put into prayer…and this prayer he ordered, and used, as he sought from God the answers.…
Dear Ones: Francis Ridley Havergal wrote in the sixth stanza of the hymn “Jesus, Thy Life is Mine“: “Jesus, my life is Thine, And evermore shalt be, Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine, Thy life from mine.” Let us today, by faith, lay hold of the wonderful truth of our inseparable union with Christ.…
Dear Ones: Frederick Faber wrote in his hymn “My God, How Wonderful Thou Art” about God as the Father: “No earthly father loves like Thee, No mother e’er so mild Bears and forbears as Thou hast done With me, Thy sinful child.” One of the most wonderful of all the descriptions of God is as…
Dear Ones: How can we know that God is near? David was conscious of God’s nearness. “For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.” (Psalm 139:4) David was aware that God knew all of his thoughts and words. But on an even more intimate level David…
Dear Ones: “And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; ‘for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; “and he will answer from within and…
Dear Ones: “And it came to pass…He (Jesus) took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistening. And behold, there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias (Elijah): Who…
How shall we overcome adversity? How shall we endure? How shall we reign in life?
Dear Ones: The time just before the birth of Samuel was a dark period in the history of Israel. In a few short years the Philistines conquered the nation and captured the Ark of the Covenant, the most prized symbol of God’s covenant with Israel. It was at such a time that the prayer of…