Issue 6 Autumn 2022

Called to Praise

“But you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood,
a holy nation,
His own special people,
that you may proclaim
the praises of Him
who called you out of darkness
into His marvellous light”

(1 Peter 2:9)

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES

The Sacrifice of Praise
Lettie Cowman

Many homes display the model, Prayer Changes Things, and great blessing has resulted from the simple statement. We are all aware that prayer does change things. We know, also, that many times the enemy has not been moved one inch from a stronghold, although we have persisted in prayer for days, months — yes, often years….Read more

Rejoice in The Lord Always
A. B. Simpson

“The JOY of THE LORD is your strength.”
(Nehemiah 8:10)
Quaint old John Bunyan puts it happily when he tells us how he wrote the Pilgrim’s Progress in his old Bedford dungeon. “So I was from home to prison,” he goes on to say, “and I sat me down and wrote and wrote, because joy did make me write.”…Read more

Spring Up O Well
Streams in The Desert

Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, O well; sing ye into it”
(Numbers 21: 17)

This was a strange song and a strange well. They had been traveling over the desert’s barren sands, no water was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spoke to Moses and said: “Gather the people together, and I will give them water,” and this is how it came….Read more

Power For The Commission
Smith Wigglesworth

Jesus had been baptised by John in Jordan, and the Holy Spirit had descended upon Him like a dove. Full of the Holy Spirit, He had been led by the Spirit into the wilderness, there to come off more than conqueror over the arch enemy. Then He returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee and preached in the synagogues….Read more

Glorify Ye The Lord in the Fires
Margaret Bottome

Mark the little word “in”! We are to honour Him in the trial, in that which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases where God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, fire hurts. But just here we are to glorify Him by our perfect faith in His goodness and love that has permitted all this to come upon us….Read more

The Oil of Devotion
A. B. Saint

As is often the case in the life of a believer, many a time the Holy Spirit will press through something He wants us to think about. For me, this is often through the night or at the point of wakening in the morning. The last time this happened the Lord centred my thoughts upon the subject of worship and when I arose, I found myself in a season or a time of reflection, looking at that heart-warming story found in John’s Gospel chapter 12, where Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair…..Read more

A Pleasing Aroma
A. B. Simpson

“Blow upon my garden
that the spices may flow out.”
(Song of Solomon 4:16)

A characteristic of the Lord’s garden, and the one that is emphasized in sevenfold variety and fullness, is fragrance. The perfume is the soul of the plant. It expresses the finer, the more delicate essence of its life. It stands for that in our Christian experience and in the outgoing of our heart, which is most sensitive, spiritual and devout. It is the very aroma of the heart….Read more

The Beauty of Praise
Andrew Bonar

Praise ye the LORD:
for it is good to sing praises unto our God ;
for it is pleasant and praise is comely.
(Psalm 147:1)

There are many things that might be said about praise; but you remember the Psalms have given us three statements that may guide us. The Book of Psalms says ‘Praise is PLEASANT;’ it says again, ‘It is GOOD to sing praise;’ and again it says, ‘Praise is COMELY.’…Read more

Christ Himself
Horatius Bonar

The one true goal or resting place where doubt and weariness, the stings of a pricking conscience, and the longings of an unsatisfied soul would all be quieted, is Christ Himself. Not the church, but Christ. Not doctrine, but Christ. Not forms, but Christ. Not ceremonies, but Christ…Read more

Cultivating Contentment
Charles H. Spurgeon

“I have learned,
in whatever state I am,
therewith to be content.”
Philippians 4:11

These words show us that contentment is not a natural propensity of man. “Ill weeds grow apace.” Covetousness, discontent, and murmuring are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. We need not sow thistles and brambles; they come up naturally enough, because they are indigenous to earth: and so, we need not teach men to complain; they complain fast enough without any education….Read more

Readers Testimonies

POETRY

BIOGRAPHY

They Heard Someone Singing
Gladys Aylward

Not long after believing on Jesus Christ, Gladys Aylward, a young London parlour maid, followed the call from God to take the Gospel of Jesus to China, a country she would give her heart and life to. Most famous for leading 100 Chinese children across the mountains to safety during a time of war, the account that follows occurred shortly after that event….Read more

PART 2 AMERICA AND INDIA

The Lord had wonderfully brought the famous England cricketer  and the Irish missionary Priscilla together in marriage and service, and after almost ten years of fruitful service in the heart of China, they returned back to England with their four young daughters.

Charlie’s struggles with asthma and Priscilla’s weak heart condition had not stopped them from giving their all on the mission field, but their health deteriorated under the poor living conditions. It reached a climax when Charles almost died, but the prayer of faith and the anointing of oil revived him. After much earnest prayer they left China and began a new chapter of their lives….Read more

Fishers of Men
C. T. Studd

CHINA     At the end of a message on the verse, “He is able to save to the uttermost,” after the gathering had left, a Chinaman remained at the back of the room. When we went to him he told us we had been talking sheer nonsense. He said, “I am a murderer, an adulterer, I have broken all the laws of God and man again and again. I’m also an opium smoker. He cannot save me.”…Read more

Revival History, 1859 Ireland

Four young men recently brought to saving faith in the Lord Jesus, came together in October of 1858 to begin a Sabbath school. Stirred by knowledge of the revival that was sweeping across America through Charles Finney and others, they arranged to met together to pray for The Lord’s favour and presence in their own communities.

They met at an old school building in a village near Conner, where they prayed for the conversion of their families, their friends and those in the communities around them, and slowly other believers joined them in their prayer meetings calling on The Lord for the salvation of others...Read more

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Called To Praise
Rejoice!