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GETTING THERE “Come unto Me.” Matthew 11:28 Where the sin and the sorrow cease, and the song and the saint commence. Do I want to get there? I can now. The questions that matter in life are remarkably few, and they are all answered by the words— “Come unto Me.” Not—Do this, or don’t do that; but —“Come unto Me.” If I will come to Jesus my actual..

THE NEXT BEST THING TO DO “Seek, and ye shall find.” Luke 11:9 Seek if you have not Found. “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” If you ask for things from life instead of from God, you ask amiss, that is, you ask from a desire for self-realization. The more you realize yourself the less will you seek God. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Get to work, narrow y..

THE NEXT BEST THING TO DO “For everyone that asketh receiveth.” Luke 11:10 Ask if you have not Received. There is nothing more difficult than to ask. We will long and desire and crave and suffer, but not until we are at the extreme limit will we ask. A sense of unreality makes us ask. Have you ever asked out of the depths of moral poverty? “If any of you lack wisdom, let..

WHAT NEXT? “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” John 13:17 Determine to know more than others. If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out. Launch all on God, go out on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and you will get your eyes open. If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the smoo..

DON’T SLACK OFF “Whatever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do.” John 14:13 Am I fulfilling this ministry of the interior? There is no snare, or any danger of infatuation or pride in intercession, it is a hidden ministry that brings forth fruit whereby the Father is glorified. Am I allowing my spiritual life to be frittered away, or am I bringing it all to one centre&..

WORK OUT WHAT GOD WORKS IN “Work out your own salvation.” Philippians 2:12 Your will agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a disposition which renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When the Lord is presented to the conscience, the first thing conscience does is to rouse the will, and the will always agrees with God. Look to Jesus and you will fin..

GOD’S SAY-SO “He hath said . . . so that we may boldly say . . . “ Hebrews 13:5-6 My say-so is to be built on God’s say-so. God says—“I will never leave thee,” then I can with good courage say—“The Lord is my helper, I will not fear”—I will not be haunted by apprehension. This does not mean that I will not be tempted to fear, but I will rememb..

THE NEVER-FAILING GOD “For He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Hebrews 13:5 What line does my thought take? Does it turn to what God says or to what I fear? Am I learning to say not what God says, but to say something after I have heard what He says? “He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my ..

THE SECRET OF THE LORD “The secret (friendship R.V.) of the Lord is with them that fear Him.” Psalm 25:14 What is the sign of a friend? That he tells you secret sorrows? No, that he tells you secret joys. Many will confide to you their secret sorrows, but the last mark of intimacy is to confide secret joys. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys, or are we telling Go..

WHAT ARE YOU HAUNTED BY? “What man is he that feareth the Lord?” Psalm 25:12 What are you haunted by? You will say—By nothing, but we are all haunted by something, generally by ourselves, or, if we are Christians, by our experience. The Psalmist says we are to be haunted by God. The abiding consciousness of the life is to be God, not thinking about Him. The whole of ..