Thoughts

Jesus knew that His mission was not to attract a crowd, but to remain obedient to His Father. It was prayer that set the agenda for Jesus’ ministry...

I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter. Nine-tenths of the trouble with people generally is just here ...

At times we feel as if we could impress God with all we are trying to do for Him and His church. Yet God has yet to be impressed with even the most grandiose human aspirations...

What does it mean to live in dependence upon God? Let us learn from Christ our perfect example who was a man of prayer being let by the Spirit and living by every word that proceedeth out of God's mouth ...

We are apt to measure things by their size and not by their weight. We too often prefer the things which make the most show....

God doesn't change. He will fulfill whatever He has promised. The living God speaks to us and wants us to put our trust only in Him! ...

By contemplating Christ we learn how meekly and lowly a child of God should walk in times of worldly prosperity...

Jesus literally "walked with God." As man, He was deeply conscious of the spiritual necessities of man; and as the God-man Mediator, He felt the need of looking up to the Strong One for strength...

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 ...

The first book of Samuel opens with the brief history of a godly man called Elkanah, who lived in the time of the Judges ...