How blessed is the subject of prayer! What a privilege to be free anytime, anywhere to speak to our God and to ask Him to do something or thank Him for something. What a blessed opportunity to draw upon His heart, His wisdom, His power, His mercy, and His grace. Our Lord Jesus said of this privilege, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” Dear brother J. N. Darby remarked, “Prayer is founded on the immense privilege of having common...

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Salt is of great importance to man. It makes savory what without it would be insipid. It checks the growth of nature in the vegetable kingdom; it preserves from corruption and decays what belongs to the animal kingdom. Job speaks of its savory properties (Job 6:6). Moses and the prophets bear witness to its power in destroying the growth of nature (Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 17:6; Ezekiel. 47:11); and Abimelech’s action in sowing the city of Shechem with salt (Judges 9:45) shows us that Isra...

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In this dispensation of grace, the time from the day of Pentecost until the Lord Jesus Christ comes for His own which is the rapture. The Apostle Paul is a representative man of this dispensation, in his person, ministry, and manner of life. His salvation and apostleship illustrate for us the ways of God in this dispensation. We are living in the dispensation of God’s grace. His life is a pattern to us for our lives in this day of God’s grace. His Person In his person we see the display both...

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There are certain passages in the Word of God that are especially dear to the hearts of all that love our Lord Jesus, inasmuch as they very definitely set forth the loveliness of Christ. Among such portions we may well include the six closing verses of Matthew 11, for in these verses we see the perfection of Christ shining out in one of the darkest moments of His earthly pathway. The passage opens with the words, “At that time.” We may well pause to enquire, what was “that time”? The precedin...

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Holiness in life is the consequence of salvation. He “hath saved us and called us with an holy calling” (2 Timothy 1:9). Being born of God and having received Christ as life, the principle of holiness is in every believer, although its conscious development and practical exercise is when the question of justification is settled. The affections of the heart are fixed on Christ as having so loved us and given Himself for us. He is received into the heart, and we are thus sanctified and grow up...

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The Spirit of God has furnished us with a very striking and edifying contrast between Job and Jeremiah in their trying circumstances and the Lord Jesus in His. “Job opened his mouth and cursed his day” (Job 3:1). He sighed for rest but sought it amid the shades of death and in the darkness of the tomb. gloomy rest! In the prophet Jeremiah we see the same thing (Jeremiah 20:14–18). Both these beloved and honored saints of God, when overwhelmed by outward pressure, lost for a moment that well-b...

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On March 26, 2024, at 12:44 a.m. on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, a few bridge maintenance workers were taking a break. Some were eating, and some were talking about their plans for the weekend and how they could not wait to go home to be with their families. It was a routine night shift. The Dali container ship carrying 4,700 containers, left the Port of Baltimore at 12:44 a.m. bound for Columbia, Sri Lanka. At 1:24 a.m. the ship suffered a “complete blackout” and began to drif...

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Questions Who constructed the first altar? What did Elisha do to make an ax head float to the surface of the water? Who bribed the guards at the Lord Jesus’ tomb?

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