Monthly Archives: March 2022

“Is there failure?  He is present to restore.  Is there weakness?  He is at hand to strengthen.  Is there conflict?  He is near to deliver.  Is there ignorance?  He is with us to guide.  He who could say, ‘All power … Continue reading →

“Without the touch of God upon our lips we would not speak those things which glorify Him.”  (Lehman Strauss; 1911-1997)

“The flesh and the Spirit can never harmonize.  There can be no truce between them.  The war is a war of extermination.”  (Hugh Martin  1869)

“Though the valleys be so deep that we cannot see the bottom, and the mountains so high that we cannot see the tops of them, yet God knows how to raise the one and level the other.”  (Timothy Cruso; 1657-1697)

How overwhelmingly necessary it becomes to cast ourselves completely upon the mercy of God and to endeavor to live from day to day in the power and the strength of His indwelling Spirit for victory over the flesh and the … Continue reading →

“See the wondrous advantage of trouble–that it makes us call upon God; and again see the wondrous readiness of mercy that when we call he hears us!”  (J.W. Burgon; 1813-1888)

“Our prayers can give us no satisfaction if they are infected with a worldly spirit.”  (Joseph B. Mayor  1828-1916)

“A man is not saved because he believes in Christ; he believes in Christ because he is saved.  Even the beginning of faith, the disposition to seek salvation, is itself a work of grace and the gift of God.”  (Loraine … Continue reading →

“The heart of the Spirit is infinitely more tender towards us, than that of the most affectionate parent can be towards an only child.” (John Owen; 1616-1683)

“When sensible of utter unworthiness and feebleness, we cast ourselves wholly on Him—and this very willingness to lean on Him is ‘not of ourselves, but the gift of God.”  (Robert Johnstone  1871)