Category: Daily Devotion

And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. — Revelation 1:17 It may be that like the apostle John you know Jesus Christ intimately, when suddenly He appears with no familiar characteristic at all, and the only thing you can do is to fall at His feet as dead. There are…

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body what ye shall put on. — Matthew 6:25 Jesus sums up commonsense carefulness in a disciple as infidelity. If we have received the Spirit of God, He will press through and say — “Now where…

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. — John 17:21 If you are going through a solitary way, read John 17, it will explain exactly why you are where you are — Jesus has prayed that you may…

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. — Matthew 6:33 Immediately we look at these words of Jesus, we find them the most revolutionary statement human ears ever listened to. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” We argue in exactly the…

In your patience possess ye your souls.— Luke 21:19 When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an expression of the new life, to form the mind of Christ. “Acquire your soul with patience” (rv). Many of…

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?— Romans 8:35 God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says — “I will be with him in trouble.” It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man’s life, not one of them can separate him…

Behold the fowls of the air.…Consider the lilies of the field. — Matthew 6:26, 28 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they simply are! Think of the sea, the air, the sun, the stars and the moon — all these are, and what a ministration they exert. So often we mar God’s…

And it came to pass, while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. — Luke 24:51 We have no corresponding experience to the events in Our Lord’s life after the Transfiguration. From then onwards Our Lord’s life was altogether vicarious. Up to the time of the Transfiguration He had…

Partakers of the divine nature. — 2 Peter 1:4 We are made partakers of the Divine nature through the promises; then we have to “manipulate” the Divine nature in our human nature by habits, and the first habit to form is the habit of realising the provision God has made. “Oh, I can’t afford it,”…

That ye may know what is the hope of His calling….— Ephesians 1:18 Remember what you are saved for — that the Son of God might be manifested in your mortal flesh. Bend the whole energy of your powers to realize your election as a child of God; rise to the occasion every time.You cannot…