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September 1, 2019 - October 9, 2020
but with God, confess, and have mercy.
Confession implies humility, and this, in God’s sight, is of great price.
If God does not get our heart-services, He will have none of it; it is an abomination to Him.
Psalm 139:23–24: “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”!
To do that, we must be clear and right before God. “For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
No, not despairingly Come I to Thee; No, not distrustingly Bend I the knee; Sin hath gone over me, Yet is this still my plea, Jesus hath died. Ah, mine iniquity Crimson has been; Infinite, infinite, Sin upon sin; Sin of not loving Thee, Sin of not trusting Thee. Infinite sin. Lord, I confess to Thee Sadly my sin; All I am, tell I Thee, All I have been. Purge Thou my sin away, Wash Thou my soul this day; Lord, make me clean!
He may have conviction, but no repentance. If he had repentance, he would go and give back the money. If you have cheated any one, and do not restore what you have taken unjustly; or if you have injured any one, and do not set about to undo the wrong you have done, as far as in you lies, you have not truly repented.”
If we have done wrong to some one, we should never ask God to forgive us until we are willing to make restitution.
“Careful for nothing; prayerful for everything; and thankful for anything.”
It is human to err, but it is Christ-like to forgive and be forgiven.
We must from the heart desire and seek the welfare of those who have offended us.”
“Their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.”
If we love the Lord Jesus Christ the burden of our hearts will be that God may bring us closer together, so that we may love one another and rise above all party feeling.
Nothing will silence infidels so quickly as Christians everywhere being united.
Too often we knock at mercy’s door, and then run away, instead of waiting for an entrance and an answer.
Thus we act as if we were afraid of having our prayers answered.
it is prayer and earnestness; prayer and watchfulness; prayer and thanksgiving. It is an instructive fact that throughout Scripture prayer is always linked with something else.
As one has well put it: “Depend upon it, prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend His government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions.
would rather say to Him, ‘Thy will be done.’” It is reported of a woman, who, being sick, was asked whether she was willing to live or die, that she answered, “Which God pleases.” “But,” said one, “if God should refer it to you, which would you choose?” “Truly,” replied she, “I would refer it to Him again.” Thus that man obtains his will of God, whose will is subjected to God.
Faith has no desire to have its own will, when that will is not in accordance with the mind of God; for such a desire would at bottom be the impulse of an unbelief which did not rely upon God’s judgment as our best guide. Faith knows that God’s will is the highest good, and that anything which is beneficial to us will be granted to our petitions.”
As some one has said, God kissed away his soul, and took him home to Himself. “God buried him”—the greatest honor ever paid to mortal man.
Fiery trials make golden Christians; sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.”
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” Now in the fourth chapter of James, in the third verse, we find some spoken of whose prayers were not answered: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss.” There are a great many prayers not answered because there is not the right motive; we have not complied with the Word of God; we ask amiss.
