Thoughts

The conflict is a far more serious affair than we generally think it to be. It is not a matter of individual conflict with Satan only, but that the powers of darkness are marshalled to oppose the whole Church of God on earth...

Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be stronger men!...

On a summer's evening I walked into a meeting for prayer. I had longed for such a meeting all the day, for I had thought of those words, "They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength"...

Under His shadow – Frances Ridley Havergal says: I seem to see four pictures suggested by that...

When we see our Lord we do not want to see a stranger, nor shall we; we want to see One whom we know well, who has won our heart's affection, and so we shall...

The living God – How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of!...

I had made my plans for the day, which would have taken me out of the town where I was staying. But on my way to the Railway Station I felt an inward urge to visit an aged servant of the Lord...

The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer. It is one end of the thread on which the day's actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion...

As the tempest grew in violence the disciple's terror increased, until, when it seemed that the mighty billows would break them utterly, they awake Him with that cry, made bitter by unbelief, "Carest Thou not that we perish?"...

This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, "Lord, open our eyes that we may see"; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God's horses and chariots...