Spirit Jesus

“And he said, Who art Thou, Lord?” (Acts 9:6)
By the miracle of Redemption, Saul of Tarsus was turned in one second from a strong-willed, intense Pharisee into a humble, devoted slave of the Lord Jesus.
There is nothing miraculous about the things we can explain. We command what we are able to explain, consequently it [...]

The Initiative Against Despair
‘Rise, let us be going’ - Matthew 26:46
The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done, it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say — ‘It is all up now, it is [...]

“Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” - John 11:40 - Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your common-sense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is [...]

“And the parched ground shall become a pool.” Isaiah 35:7. We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say [...]

“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:5 - God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find [...]

“Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil doing” - Psalm 37:8 - Fretting means getting out at elbows mentally or spiritually. It is one thing to say “Fret not”, but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy [...]

“That life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” 2Cor 4:10 We have to form habits to express what God’s grace has done in us. It is not a quesiton of being saved from hell, but of being saved in order to manifest the life of the Son [...]

By Spiritual Confusion - “Ye Know not what ye ask” Matthew 20:22 - There are times in spiritual life when there is confusion, and it is no way out to say that there ought not to be confusion. It is not a question of right and wrong, but a question of God taking you [...]

Our Lord’s Cross is the gateway into His Life: His Resurrection means that He has power now to convey His life to me. When I am born again from above, I receive from the Risen Lord His very life.

“Jesus said unto him the third time, Lovest thou Me?” John 21:17 - Have you felt the hurt of the Lord to the uncovered quick, the place where the real sensitiveness of your life is lodged? The devil never hurts there, neither sin nor human affection hurts there, nothing goes through to that place [...]

“Be Still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off.
Tenacity is the [...]

Have I ever been carried away to do something for God not because it was my duty, nor because it was useful, nor because there was anything in it at all beyond the fact that I love Him?

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee.” Isaiah 26:3
Is your imagination stayed on God or is it starved? The starvation of the imagination is one of the most fruitful sources of exhaustion and sapping in a worker’s life. If you have never used your imagination to put [...]

‘By the Grace of God I am What I am ‘-

“His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.” 1Cor. 15:10