Issue 1 Summer 2021

Called to Surrender All

“If anyone desires to come after Me,
let him deny himself,
and take up
his cross daily,
and follow Me.“

(Luke 9: 23)

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES

I trust in Your Word
George Muller

Just in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak. Faith has nothing to do with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or with outward appearances……Read more

The Lordship of Jesus
Oswald J. Smith

There are many to whom Jesus Christ is Saviour, but not Lord: many who have been saved by Jesus who have never recognised Him as Master. They are His children but not His disciples. A disciple is a learner…..Read more

In God’s Hands
Oswald Chambers

The aim of life is that the Son of God may be manifested, and all dictation to God vanishes. Our Lord never dictated to His Father, and we are not here to dictate to God; we are here to submit to His will so that He may work….Read more

Is The Altar Empty?
Corrie Ten Boom

It is years ago that I heard Oswald Smith, that great man from Toronto, the evangelist, and he spoke about total surrender, and he used an illustration. He took four books, and he said, “Lord, I will surrender all….Read more

By Faith
Streams in the Desert

Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way…..Read more

Obeying The Voice of The Lord
R. A. Torrey

My first pastorate was a little village of 969 inhabitants. In the village were two public-houses. One day I sat in my study at my desk working on a sermon for the following Sunday, with my exordium….Read more

Bring Every Thought Captive
Various

Our feelings may be as uncertain as the sea or the shifting sands. God’s facts are as certain as the Rock of Ages, even Christ Himself, who is the same yesterday, today and forever. Let us give ourselves no liberty ever to doubt God….Read more

The Incense Altar
A. B. Saint

This week we have had a Celebration at home, and someone very kindly brought me a huge bouquet of flowers. They consist of roses, antirrhinums, carnations and lilies. Not only are they beautiful, but the fragrance coming….Read more

Seeking the Will of God
R. A. Torrey

I have met a great many who are trying to lead a Christian life who are much troubled over the question of guidance. They wish to do the will of God in all things, but what puzzles them is to tell what the will of God  may be in every case….Read more

And They Follow Me
Charles H. Spurgeon

We should follow our Lord as unhesitatingly as sheep follow their shepherd, for He has a right to lead us wherever he pleases. We are not our own, we are bought with a price–let us recognize the rights of the redeeming blood…Read more

Not I but Christ
F. B. Meyer

“Be filled with the Spirit” is a positive command, which we must obey for our good, and all God’s commands are enabling’s. He is prepared to make us what He tells us to become.  On the day of Pentecost, the Apostle Peter…Read more

 

poetry

BIOGRAPHY

“Lord, I give up my own purposes and plans, all my own desires, hopes and ambitions, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all, utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever.  …Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Work out Thy whole will in my life, at any cost, now and forever.” 

‘To me to live is Christ and to die is gain’ 
(Phil. 1:21)

The above prayer was found written in a bible taken as loot by the Red Army when they attacked a small mission house in Eastern China, 1934. The Bible belonged to a young woman who had grasped the meaning of a life hidden in Christ, and who recognised that this was the only real life to live.

That woman was Betty Scott Stam, born in 1906 into a missionary hearted family from Michigan, America, who responded to the call to bring the gospel to China when Betty was just six months old.

For seventeen years young Betty was nurtured in an evangelistic environment in Shandong, and developed a lasting love for the Chinese people, millions of whom were still to hear the name of Jesus….Read more

BIBLE STUDY

The Power to Walk in God’s Will (Parts 1 & 2)
Come Follow Me