Prophesying in a Scene of Rejection

There are few things less understood than the real nature of exhortation. We are apt to attach an idea of legal effort to that word which is quite foreign to it ...

God looks for those who will allow Him to shape them into the instruments He requires to do His divine work. Clay has no plans of its own...

Each has some appointed work to perform, some little niche in the spiritual temple to occupy. Yours may be no splendid services, no flaming or brilliant actions to blaze and dazzle in the eye of man...

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