Watch ye, therefore, and pray always. Luke 21:36. Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. Hebrews 12:1. The hearts of men are not like unto clocks, which only want to be wound up once a day; O no, the dulness and distraction is too...
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Jer. 3:22. When he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. Luke 15:20. Hear therefore the voice of thy loving Father and...
The words I speak most often: "FATHER, HELP ME!" ~ Isaiah 41:10 "FORGIVE ME, LORD." ~ Matthew 6:12 "THANK YOU, LORD!" ~ Psalm 100:4 ~ because He promises to hear and answer; to be with me; and show me His way. "Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD...
Mine iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. Psalm 38:4. It is a sure sign that a man is awakened out of his sleep, when he discovers the error of his dream. In the drawing up of water out of a deep well, so long as the bucket...
Behold, we come unto thee. Jer. 3:22. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. John 14:18. Make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house. Luke 19:4-6. O my dear Saviour, since I come to thee, and thou to me, we shall certainly meet...
Tell his disciples and Peter. Mark 16:7. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 1 John 2:1,2. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. Hebrews 12:12 Hast thou been slack, unfaithful, and fallen...
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns. Eph. 5:19. Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. 3:16 If we are obliged to promote the temporal good of our neighbor, how much more the spiritual, by edifying discourses. But how is it? The...
Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. Exodus 2:9 As Moses was ordered to be saved by the most cruel enemy’s daughter, so Satan himself, even when he meditates our destruction, must be a means of our life. So also Matt. 12:48, “Who...
I live by the faith of the Son of God. Galatians 2:20 In spiritual things we are too often living upon self. We seek in frames, forms, creatures, and animal life, that inward peace and stability of mind which is only to be found in the Redeemer. Outward duties are...