The Way of By Jonathan Edwards, 1722 “A highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast […]
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DAILY WALKING WITH GOD SEPTEMBER 1. “And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD AUGUST 1. “So then, after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.” Mark 16:19 The circumstance of the Lord’s ascension and exaltation meets with frequent and marked allusion in the word of God. The Holy Spirit has attached […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD JULY 1. “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide in me.” John 15:4 The union of the believer with Jesus, and the consequent fruitfulness, is a glorious truth: the Holy […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD JUNE 1. “Howbeit you are just in all that is brought upon us; for you have done right, but we have done wickedly.” Neh. 9:33 IT would be incorrect to suppose that the chastisements of our heavenly Father were in themselves pleasant and desirable. They are no more so than the […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD MAY 1. “For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” Ephes. 2:14 BEHIND this wall Jesus did once stand, and although thus partially obscured, yet to those who had faith to see Him, dwelling though they were in […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD APRIL 1. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. Job 36:26 THERE is a state of mind often enfeebling to the exercise of prayer, arising from the difficulty of forming proper views of the spiritual nature of the Divine […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD MARCH 1. For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. Romans 9:15 THERE is a sovereignty in all the works and dealings of God. If it be asked, what God’s own definition of […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD FEBRUARY 1. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear him, upon those who hope in his mercy; To deliver their soul from death. Psalm 33:18-19 A FATHER’S eye beaming with tenderness upon a rebellious, wandering child, inviting, welcoming his return—what adamant can resist it? The deepest, bitterest, […]
Continue Reading DAILY WALKING WITH GOD JANUARY 1. As your days, so shall your strength be. Deut. 33:25 CHRISTIAN, consider this new epoch of time, unfold a new page of your yet unwritten history, with the full, unwavering conviction that God is faithful; that in all the negotiations, transactions, and events of the unknown future, in all […]
Continue ReadingThe kingdom of God is within you.—LUKE xvii. 21. Oh, take this heart that I would give Forever to be all Thine own; I to myself no more would live,— Come, Lord, be Thou my King alone. G. TERSTEEGEN. Herein is the work assigned to the individual soul, to have life in itself, to […]
Continue ReadingAnd when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.—MARK xi. 25, 26. ‘Tis not enough to weep my sins, ‘Tis but one […]
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