Thoughts

Especially if you haven’t spent much time in prayer yet, it’s easy to fall into a pattern of praying ritualistically and without depth. But to truly enter the spirit of prayer, we have to linger for a while.

The Bible gives us impressive examples of people who gave glory to God in suffering. Just think of Job...

Just as the light shines brightest in the darkness, God is often most glorified when we trust Him in suffering and persevere in it...

God knows exactly when to withhold or to grant us any visible sign of encouragement ...

It often takes some time to pour out our soul in peace before the Lord and tell Him everything that is bothering us...

We need the patience of Christ to keep us from over-helping others. We would help too much—or too soon...

Reader! How comforting to you amid the ebbings and flowings of your changing history — to know that the change is all with you, and not with your God!...

Prayer is not difficult to understand. It is difficult to do. When was the last time your heart so grieved for those you were interceding for that your entire body agonized along with your mind and heart?...

It is the sin, as it is the mortification, of the believer, to expect too much from the creature, and too little from the Lord...

“What pleases Thee, Lord, pleases me” is a grand motto for rest and peace and quiet, and for the stop­ping of all repining about what we have not got...