I thank God for the Unseen Hand, sometime urging me onward, sometimes holding me back; sometimes with a caress of approval, sometimes with a stroke of reproof; sometimes correcting, sometimes comforting. My times are in his hand.
- Vince Havner -
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6 Jan
Providence and our times
3 Jan
The great of this world
The great of this world are those who simply loved God more than others did.
AW Tozer
19 Oct
Coming Home
After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it’s assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection, where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house [...]
9 Aug
Our hearts are not our own
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it.
- Samuel Rutherford -
8 Aug
The realization of God’s Blessing
To realize that you are safe and happy standing at God’s side, with His love encompassing you because you are forgiven; too happy to take offense any more; too much in love with life to want to be made miserable with an unforgiving heart, and knowing that now every conflict is a chance to learn [...]
23 Jul
A Life of Faith
There is no blessed way of living, than the life of faith upon a covenant-keeping God – to know that we have no care, for he cares for us; that we need have no fear, except to fear him; that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens upon the Lord, and [...]
20 Nov
Speak Well of His Name
In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.
- George Muller -
9 Nov
Difficulties and Obstacles
Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.
- A. B. Simpson -
25 Oct
The Approach To Each Day
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God’s goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good [...]
21 Oct
Future Mercies
Can we expect future mercies, if we are not thankful for past blessings?
- William W. Patton -
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