Issue 5 Summer 2022

Called To Obedience

“If you love Me,
you will obey Me.”

(John 14: 15)

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES

Keeping In Step
F. B. Meyer

A YOKE—for two! All through His earthly life Jesus was saying: take My yoke. What was His yoke? It was surely His desire to do the Father’s will. This was the watchword of His life (John 5:30; John 6:38). So persuasive was His appeal, that the sons of Zebedee left their father and boat; Andrew and Simon their fishing-nets; and Matthew his toll-booth to become His disciples….Read more

A Life Transformed
Andrew Murray

I thank God for the story of Peter. I do not know a man in the Bible who gives us greater comfort. When we look at his character, so full of failures, and at what Christ made him by the power of the Holy Ghost, there is hope for every one of us. But remember, before Christ could fill Peter with the Holy Spirit and make a new man of him, he had to go out and weep bitterly; he had to be humbled….Read more

We Live unto The Lord
Charles H. Spurgeon

If God had willed it, each one of us might have entered heaven at the moment of conversion. It was not absolutely necessary for our preparation for eternity that we should tarry here, for it is possible for one to be taken to heaven and be found “meet to be a partaker of the inheritance with the saints in light” though he has only just come to know Jesus….Read more

After Obedience, what?
Oswald Chambers

We are apt to imagine that if Jesus Christ constrains us and we obey Him, He will lead us to great success; but He does not. We would have thought these men would have had a most successful time, but their obedience led them into a great disaster….Read more

Fervency
A. B. Saint

The coming of Christ we know is a certainty, and in the light of this understanding revealed to us by the Holy Spirit through the Scriptures, and also by the things which are coming upon the earth, the Believer’s attitude towards Christ should cause us to live and remain in a constant attitude of fervency….Read more

The Hill Country
Streams in the Desert

There is always room higher up. When the valleys are full of Canaanites, whose iron chariots withstand your progress, get up into the hills, occupy the upper spaces. If you can no longer work for God, pray for those who can. If you cannot move earth by your speech, you may move Heaven….Read more

Lovest Thou Me?
Oswald J. Smith

“LOVEST thou Me?” The question was startling. The little group sitting round the fire on the shore of the Galilean sea, glanced quickly up at the speaker’s face. With expectation gleaming in His eyes, He sat quietly gazing at but one, and waiting for the answer….Read more

Delighting to do His Will
Amy Carmichael

I have often noticed that if anyone, who has been asked to do a difficult thing for the sake of The Lord Jesus, does it and does it heartily, that one seems almost to gain a new power of joy and a wonderful new liberty….Read more

The Same Day
Oswald Chambers

“Take now your son . . .”
Genesis 22:2

God’s command is, “Take now,” not later. It is incredible how we debate! We know something is right, but we try to find excuses for not doing it immediately. If we are to climb to the height God reveals, it can never be done later- it must be done now. And the sacrifice must be worked through our will before we actually perform it….Read more

Zeal, Faith, Fervour
Frances Ridley Havergal

“The king’s business required haste” 
(1 Samuel 21:8)

Yet there is no other business about which average Christians take it so easy.  They “must” do all that is expected of them, and then, after this, that and the other thing is done, they will do what they can of the King’s business. Is this being “faithful and loyal and single hearted”?…Read more

Straightaway
Charles H. Spurgeon

“Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.”
Mark 1:18

When they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without demur. If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance at the means of grace, and our reading of good books, could not fail to enrich us spiritually….Read more

POETRY

BIOGRAPHY

PART 1 CHINA

The world famous English cricketer C.T. Studd shocked the sporting world and all who knew him when at the age of twenty four he turned his back on his success, reputation, wealth and prominence to become a missionary for Jesus Christ.

In February 1885, along with six other Cambridge students, Charles sailed to China with the sole intent of serving God by bringing the gospel to the lost millions who had never heard the name of Jesus. He was as consumed with this purpose as he had been with cricket, exchanging one passion forever for another….Read more

All Things Through Christ
Mark Nolan

“Lord, save me and I will serve you the rest of life!” This was my first prayer in many years, said as I faced death through blood loss, and the reality of dying without Christ was suddenly all that mattered….Read more

Trusting God
Corrie Ten Boom

From the very beginning of my ministry I have felt it was wrong to ask for money, even to ask for travelling expenses. I did not want to be paid for ‘services rendered,’ I simply wanted to preach the Gospel and let The Lord provide for me….Read more

BIBLE STUDY

Being a Doer of The Word