28 October 2018 "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." ...Romans 12:1   These words take us beyond the mere individual for they imply contribution to a whole. The "presenting" is individual but the service is corporate. T...

October 7 2018 "The men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord." ....Joshua 9:14 Sin before God as a Christian is of two kinds. One is the sin of refusing to obey Him when He issues orders, the other is the sin of going ahead of Him when He has issued no such orders. The first is rebellion, not doing what the Lord h...

August 5 2018 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have n...

July 8 2018 "Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation." Habakkuk 3:18 When the Galilean boy brought his bread to Jesus, what did Jesus do with it? He broke it. God will always break what is offered to Him, then He blesses and uses it to meet man's need. Is not this true of your experience and mine? You give yourself to ...

June 24 2016 "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." ....Psalm 46:11 How very much our own life is like Jacob's history! Until God begins to deal with us, we are inclined to take a superior spiritually proud attitude to Jacob's intrigues, but as we begin to encounter the deviousness of our own thinking and self-will, we soon...

May 31 2018 "As many as touched Him were made whole." ....Mark 6:56 Recall the incident of the Pharisee and the publican at prayer in the temple. The Pharisee understood all about tithes and offerings, yet from him there was no cry from his heart to God; it was all in his mind so to speak. It was the publican who cried from his heart , "Lord have m...

March 23 2018 "In a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honour, and some unto dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour." ...2 Timothy 2:20 What distinguishes these vessels? We note at once that only their materials are mentioned, not ...

March 13 2018 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" ....Hebrews 4:12 None of us like to have our "self" revealed to us. We don't like to be exposed for what...

March 6, 2018 "God, whose I am, whom also I serve." ....Acts 27:23 It is a great thing when I discover I am no longer my own but Christ's and that I have the love of God in my heart, causing me to be sensitive unto others. If the money in my pocket belongs to me, I have full authority over it. But if it belongs to another who has committed it to me...

February 19, 2017 "I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes." ...Ezekiel 36: 27 Late one summer I (Watchman Nee) stayed at a hill resort in the home of a mechanic and his wife, both of whom it was my joy to lead to a simple faith in the Saviour. When the time came for me to return to Shanghai, I left with them a Bible. ...