"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul." -Lamentations 3:24
It is not "The Lord is partly my portion," nor "The Lord is in my portion"; but he himself makes ...
"Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us." -Psalm 68:28
It is our wisdom, as well as our necessity, to beseech God continually to strengthen t...
"The Lord's portion is his people." -Deuteronomy 32:9
How are they his? By his own sovereign choice. He chose them, and set his love upon them. This he did a...
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn." -Genesis 29:26
We do not excuse Laban for his dishonesty, b...
"I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham." -Zephaniah 1:5
Such persons thought themselves safe because they we...
"Men ought always to pray." -Luke 18:1
If men ought always to pray and not to faint, much more Christian men. Jesus has sent his church into the world on the...
"The branch cannot bear fruit of itself." -John 15:4
How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourselves on his great atonemen...
"Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty." -Isaiah 33:17
The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him; and...
“He shall gather the lambs with his arm.”-Isaiah 40:11
Our good Shepherd has in his flock a variety of experiences, some are strong in the Lord, and others are...
“I will meditate in thy precepts.”-Psalm 119:15
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Chr...
“Whom he did predestinate, them he also called.”-Romans 8:30
In the second epistle to Timothy, first chapter, and ninth verse, are these words—“Who hath saved ...
“Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.”-Lamentations 3:41
The act of prayer teaches us our unworthiness, which is a very salutary le...
