The Holy Spirit must energize our prayer life. We cannot pray with the discipline of the flesh and be heard.

The Lord’s nets, the preachers of the word, need mending too. Our mind grows jaded, and our spirit depressed, our heart beats with diminished vigor, and our eyes lose their brightness, if we continue, month after month, and year after year, without a rest. Mental work will as surely wear out the brain as friction will destroy the iron wheel. It is a bad policy to forego the regular vacation.

It is your constant patience in faith which will decide the struggle against sin, not occasional victories or defeats.

Oh, the blessed shadow of Christ’s cross! All the flocks of the Lord lie down under it, and rest in peace; millions of souls are delivered by it from the heat of vengeance, and myriads more shall find a covert within it from the wrath to come.

Unity is that gift from God that comes as an answered prayer of the Son so that the world (“Satanic System,” Lewis Sperry Chafer) may know the Father sent the Son. 

THE disciples had been with Christ, and seen Him pray. They had learnt to understand something of the connection between His wondrous life in public, and His secret life of prayer.

Of all laborers, he who labors in the spiritual field stands in the greatest need of joy in his work, because of all labor it is that which brings the greatest amount of care, disappointment, trial and suffering.

The hatred of the ungodly when poured upon Christians in the form of persecution, is seldom harmful to their spiritual nature,...

A dying man is needed to raise dying men.

It is clear that the term “revival” can only be applied to a living soul, or to that which once lived.

“When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.” (Luke 9:51 ESV) (Emphasis mine)

Self control means just what it says, having control over one’s self. Someone has said, “A man’s conquest of himself dwarfs the ascent of...

When we try to describe this movement of practical reason between its two poles, a misleading analogy suggests itself.

We, too, are hurled headlong into a sea of sorrows, and find it hard to keep our head above water.

Is not timidity a common vice among Christian workers?

Christ, our sacrifice, was made sin and a curse for us and the sacrifice was consumed by the fire of God’s wrath against sin...

In the context of his teaching, this refers fundamentally to the “Sabbath rest” which is found in Christ...

Most modern Christians live sub-Christian lives!

Your whole usefulness depends on this.

I find to this day seven abominations in my heart: