God of all mercy, Your mercies are new every morning. Grant a spirit of vigor rather than stupor for your people. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear today. Amen. r“God gave them a spirit of stupor,seyes that would not seeand ears that would not hear,down to this very day.” – Romans 11:8…
Another year is dawning, Dear Father, let it be, in working or in waiting another year with Thee; another year of progress, another year of praise, another year of proving Thy presence all the days. Another year of mercies, of faithfulness and grace; another year of gladness in the shining of Thy face; another year…
O Lord our God, have mercy upon us. Forgive us especially, we pray thee again, for our folly—for our foolish talking about our century and the “modern man”, as if anything had changed. Awaken us, we pray thee, and bring us to see that thy method is still the same, that the truth remains unchanged…
Old Testament Genesis 44:1-45:28 New Testament Matthew 14:13-36 Psalm 18:37-50 Proverbs 4:11-13 Intercession for the Youngest From Genesis 42-45 we read about Joseph’s interaction with his brothers. They have come to Egypt to find food because of a severe famine throughout the Mediterranean region. Joseph seems to be play cruel tricks on his brothers, but he is…
Blaise Pascal had a kind of born again experience the night of November 23, 1654. A brilliant scientist and intellectual, Pascal met God, as it were, face to face, and wrote what he saw and felt, as it was happening to him. He recorded on a piece of parchment, “From about half past ten in…
Have you ever heard someone talking to you, but you did not really notice them or what they were saying? Last night after our little ones (they are getting bigger) were all tucked in. Katie and I were preparing to tuck ourselves in Katie started speaking, but I was not hearing. She simply walked away…
Edward McKendree Bounds was alarmed at certain tendencies he saw in his denomination at the end of the nineteenth century. He would despair if he saw how what he then called a “trend of the day” has now become the order of the day: We are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain,…
Mary Slessor was a missionary to West Africa in the nineteenth century. Her work among orphans there was nothing short of remarkable. Single and an activist, her days were long and arduous and at times lonely. She did the work of ten “normal” people in her lifetime. But she named prayer, not mere “doing,” as…
Luther’s sacristy prayer:”Lord God, thou has appointed me to be a bishop and pastor in thy church. Thou seest how unfit I am to undertake this great and difficult office, and were it not for thy help, I would long since have ruined it all. Therefore I cry unto thee; I will assuredly apply my…