Blessed is the one who stays awake.Revelation 16:15 “I die every day,”1 said the apostle. This was the life of the early Christians; they went everywhere with their lives in their hands. We are not at this time being called to pass through the same fearful persecutions: if we were, the Lord would give us…

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.Revelation 3:20 What is your desire this evening? Is it focused on heavenly things? Do you long to enjoy the high doctrine of eternal love? Do you desire liberty in very close communion with God? Do you aspire to know the…

“You Said”But you said, I will surely do you good.Genesis 32:12 When Jacob was on the other side of the brook Jabbok, and Esau was coming with armed men, Jacob earnestly sought God’s protection, and the ground of his appeal was this: “But you said, I will surely do you good.” What force is in…

So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.Exodus 17:12 The prayer of Moses was so mighty that everything depended upon it. The petitions of Moses disconcerted the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. In the soul’s conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valor and vehemence…

Lifted Up Be their shepherd and carry them forever.Psalm 28:9 God’s people need to be carried. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or if they have, they are like the dove of old that lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them rise up on wings covered…

Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them.Isaiah 3:10 It is well with the righteous ALWAYS. If it had said, “Tell the righteous that it is well with them in their prosperity,” we would be thankful for so great a blessing, for prosperity is an hour of peril. It is a gift from…

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.Leviticus 1:4 Our Lord’s being “made … sin”1 for us is pictured here by the very significant transfer of sin to the bullock, which was done by the elders of the people….

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.Psalm 51:14 In this solemn confession, it is helpful to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter or speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred…

In the name of the Lord I cut them off!Psalm 118:12 Our Lord Jesus, by His death, did not purchase a right to just a part of us, but to all of us. He pondered in His passion our complete sanctification—spirit, soul, and body, that in every area He Himself might reign supreme without a…