By faith put off your sackcloth and ashes, and put on the garments of joy and gladness. Let your clothes be white, and your head anointed with oil. Live to the fullest. Live today, live tomorrow, live...  Read More

Are you at the door of salvation? You struggle as to whether you have faith or not. You want to come to the light but seem to struggle to do so. Why not go ahead and come out of darkness and into the ...  Read More

Man had a happy life in the garden of Eden, living in the image and favour of his Creator, but after the fall, what vain pursuits he craves to restore his happiness! He is like the Sodomites groping a...  Read More

Satan is a troubler of our souls. He will test you as to your fear of the future: 'What will become of you if God should bring you into such and such affliction or trial, when you must burn at the sta...  Read More

God reveals himself most to his people when they have been in secret prayer. O the sweet meltings, the heavenly warmings, the blessed cheerings, and the choice communions with God, that Christians hav...  Read More

The Lord is my present help and salvation. Though we are troubled with poverty, shame, or any other affliction, God is our salvation and help. If you are in trouble, God is deliverance; if you are per...  Read More

God is the only rock on which we may rest safe in times of danger. Trusting in him brings peace in every circumstance. God has set apart his grace for this purpose. It is the grace of the new covenant...  Read More

David was in great trials and afflictions, for God allows his children to fall into long and great afflictions and troubles before his deliverance comes. It is implied in the text that David was repro...  Read More

Consider all that Christ has done for you. Consider how he has forgiven you and conferred so many favours upon you. Is there anything too good, too hard or dear for him? Mary, if your tears might wash...  Read More

As Christians, we should not enjoy just an ordinary level of cheerfulness; we should go way beyond those of the world both in quality and quantity. Our happiness should be sweeter, higher, and more co...  Read More

Christ’s love made him willing to suffer for us. He suffered all the misery that our sin deserved. He who caused the vast fabric of heaven and earth to start out of nothing, King of kings and Lord of...  Read More

These words of our Saviour are plain, and to be taken literally. Here we have a positive precept for every Christian to pray alone. Closet duties declare sincerity. The more sincerity, the more the s...  Read More

The ways of God are righteous ways, blessed ways, and they bring in temporal, spiritual, and eternal blessings upon all who walk in them. His ways lead to righteousness, to the love and delight of ri...  Read More

Our God is a suitable portion. No object is as suitable to the heart as he is. He is a portion that is exactly suited to the condition of the soul in its desires, needs, wants, longings and prayers. ...  Read More

We who profess and hold the precious faith of Christ in truth, do we also make him our all in all? By our tongue he may be heard, but in our lives and deeds, is he to be found? As Saviour many will o...  Read More

CONSIDER GOD in your own experiences of him. There is a taste and sight of his goodness. This surpasses the greatest capacity of a mere natural understanding. Have not many of you found the delightfu...  Read More

The glorious riches of Christ's love cannot be expressed but in the language of paradise; it cannot be understood but by a transported soul, a spirit caught up to the third heaven. The expressions, w...  Read More

The love of Christ daily loads us with benefits. He gives us nothing but what is good. He blesses our curses, temptations, afflictions, sin and death, and they all prove good to us. Even all his ways...  Read More

Now faith is ‘the assurance of things hoped for.’ It helps us to be content before we receive our distant and future comforts. A Christian has tasted how sweet God is in Christ, therefore he groans a...  Read More

The soul is immortal, and it will have sensibility forever. No one can kill the soul. If all the angels in heaven, and all the men on earth, could lay all their strength together, they cannot kill or...  Read More

The body is called the house of the soul. Now the house is much inferior to him that dwells in it. And yet, alas, with grief, how common it is for men to spend all their time, care, strength, and att...  Read More

When you are oppressed with the weight of any duty and service in your calling, improve your trust in God's power. Perhaps you find the duty of your calling too heavy for your weak shoulders: lay the...  Read More

Since faith is 'the assurance of things hoped for', it is our best help, in suffering, for it teaches us to counterbalance our temptations with our hopes. When the devil would make you faint and lazy ...  Read More

We should have such a faith to substantiate our hopes and to check sensuality, for we find the corrupt heart of man is all for present satisfaction. Though the pleasures of sin are short and inconsid...  Read More