The church will never prosper until it more reverently believes in the Holy Spirit. He is so good and kind that it is sad indeed that He should be grieved by slights and negligences.

When you rest in Him, you not only receive but also give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His beauty, you not only obtain comfort but impart delight.

February 14 She had been immediately healed. (Luke 8:47) One of the most touching and instructive of the Savior’s miracles is before us tonight. The woman was very ignorant. She imagined that virtue came out of Christ by a law of necessity, without His knowledge or direct will. Moreover, she was a stranger to the generosity…

February 13 There is therefore now no condemnation. (Romans 8:1) Come, my soul, think about this. Believing in Jesus, you are actually and effectually cleared from guilt; you are led out of prison. You are no longer in chains as a slave; you are delivered now from the bondage of the law; you are freed from…

FEBRUARY 12 He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.(John 14:16) God the Father revealed Himself to Old Testament believers before the coming of His Son and was known to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty. Then Jesus came, and the ever-blessed Son in His own proper person was the delight…

FEBRUARY 11 You have abandoned the love you had at first.(Revelation 2:4) We will never forget that best and brightest of hours when we first saw the Lord, lost our burden, received the gift of grace, rejoiced in full salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was springtime in the soul; the winter…

FEBRUARY 10 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.(Isaiah 44:22) Pay attention to the instructive picture: Our sins are like a cloud. As clouds appear in many shapes and shades, so do our transgressions. As clouds obscure the light of…

FEBRUARY 9 Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.(Luke 11:4) The things we are taught to seek or avoid in prayer should be equally pursued or avoided in action. We should, with sincerity, avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience that we may never tempt the devil…

FEBRUARY 8 He will save His people from their sins.(Matthew 1:21) If asked what they understand by salvation, many people will reply, “Being saved from hell and taken to heaven.” This is one result of salvation, but it is not one-tenth of what is contained in that blessing. Our Lord Jesus Christ does indeed redeem…

FEBRUARY 7 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!”(Revelation 11:12) Without considering these words in their prophetic connection, let us regard them as the invitation of our great Forerunner to His sanctified people. In due time there shall be heard “a loud voice from heaven” to every believer,…