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SUBLIME INTIMACY “Said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” John 11:40 Every time you venture out in the life of faith, you will find something in your commonsense circumstances that flatly contradicts your faith. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual. Can you tru..

WHAT’S THE GOOD OF PRAYER? “Lord, teach us to pray.” Luke 11:1 It is not part of the life of a natural man to pray. We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life if he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can e..

THEOLOGY ALIVE “Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.” John 12:35 Beware of not acting upon what you see in your moments on the mount with God. If you do not obey the light, it will turn into darkness. “If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” The second you waive the question of sanctification or any other thing upon which Go..

ARE YOU EVER DISTURBED? “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you.” John 14:27 There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace, His words are ever “spirit and life.” Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? “My peace I give unto..

THE FRUITFULNESS OF FRIENDSHIP “I have called you friends.” John 15:15 We never know the joy of self-sacrifice until we abandon in every particular. Self-surrender is the most difficult thing—I will if. . .! Oh, well, I suppose I must devote my life to God. There is none of the joy of self-sacrifice in that. As soon as we do abandon, the Holy Ghost gives us an intimation of the joy of Jes..

THE SPIRITUAL INDEX “Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?” Matthew 7:9 The illustration of prayer that Our Lord uses here is that of a good child asking for a good thing. We talk about prayer as if God heard us irrespective of the fact of our relationship to Him (cf. Matthew 5:45.) Never say it is not God’s will to give you what you ask, don’..

PRAYER CHOICE AND PRAYER CONFLICT “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and pray to thy Father which is in secret.” Matthew 6:6 Jesus did not say—Dream about thy Father in secret, but pray to thy Father in secret. Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and have shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray; We cannot get our minds into work..

“I INDEED . . . BUT HE” “I indeed baptize you with water. . . but He. . . shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire.” Matthew 3:11 Have I ever come to a place in my experience where I can say— “I indeed. . . but He”? Until that moment does come, I will never know what the baptism of the Holy Ghost means. I indeed am at an end, I cannot do a thing: but He begins just there—H..

THE MINISTRY OF THE UNNOTICED “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” Matthew 5:3 The New Testament notices things which from our standards do not seem to count. “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” literally— Blessed are the paupers—an exceedingly commonplace thing! The preaching of today is apt to emphasize strength of will, beauty of character—the things that are easily noticed. The phr..

COMPLETENESS “And I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 Whenever anything begins to disintegrate your life with Jesus Christ, turn to Him at once and ask Him to establish rest. Never allow anything to remain which is making the dis-peace. Take every element of disintegration as something to wrestle against, and not to suffer. Say—Lord, prove Thy consciousness in me, and self-consciousness ..