Thoughts

Behold the infinite patience of Jesus! Even among His own disciples, how forbearingly He endured their blindness, their misconceptions and hardness of heart...

A mother had taught her little boy, “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,” as a morning text, and in the evening she asked him if he could repeat it. He immediately complied with, “The Lord is my Shepherd, so I don't want it.” ...

When my little son was about ten years old, his grandmother promised him a stamp collecting album for Christmas. Christmas came and went with no stamp album and no word from Grandma ...

There is always room higher in the hills. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose mighty iron chariots are slowing your progress, go up to the hills ...

A visitor at a school for the deaf was writing questions on the board for the children. Soon he wrote this sentence: “Why has God made me able to hear and speak, and made you deaf?” ...

Never look ahead to the changes and challenges of this life in fear. Instead, as they arise look at them with the full assurance ...

Will not be moved”— what an inspiring declaration! Is it possible for us who are so easily moved by earthly things to come to a point where nothing can upset us or disturb our peace? ...

Prayer that uses previously unanswered prayers as an excuse for laziness has already ceased to be a prayer of faith ...

We find the expression “the living God” many times in the Scriptures, and yet it is the very thing we are so prone to forget. We know it is written “the living God,” but in our daily life ...

We should be careful about what we ask from God; but when once we begin to pray for a thing we should never give up praying for it until we receive it ...