“Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, who touched me?” (Mark 5:31) God never loses the individual in the crowd. “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” There is the multitude. But God breaks it down into individuals: “There is none righteous, no, not one.” The sinners cannot hide [...]

“Ye shall be witnesses.” Acts 1:8 What began as a company of lay witnesses has evidently become the responsibility of just the deacons and paid staff in most churches. While some do have a special call on their life to preach, all are appointed to be witnesses. Every believer in the early church was a [...]

“And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.” (Genesis 32:24) It is not when we are ready to teach ourselves a lesson, or when we think it is time to wrestle with God all night that we have our best seasons with God. We do [...]

“Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.” (Jeremiah 38:12) “Old cast clouts.” you must admit, this is a rather strange expression; yet it contains a message of great encouragement concerning the wondrous workings of God’s grace! These matted bits of patched rags and [...]

“I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” (Proverbs 8:17) Why do we think it so remarkable when an older person gets saved? Is it not because it is so rare and unusual? The very fact that we think it is so wonderful proves the danger of waiting [...]

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16) The born-again child of God has been separated from judgment and has a dissolved partnership with the devil. The unsaved is in company with the devil, but when once saved, that [...]

(Isaiah 30:8-12) “Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophecy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.” (Isaiah 30:10-11) Isaiah was a preacher [...]

“Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (Hebrews 4:7) “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29) Each time we are exposed to the fire and the hammer of God’s Word, we either are drawn closer [...]

(I Peter 4:1-5) “Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.” (I Peter 4:4) So many Christians in today’s world feel grieved, out of place, odd, and “strange” as though they do not fit in and belong or are not accepted because [...]

“The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.” (Proverbs 26:13) “Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.” (Proverbs 6:10) There is no one who can think up more ridiculous excuses for not working than the slothful man who [...]