Issue 8 Spring 2023

Called to be Witnesses

And this gospel of the kingdom
will be preached
in all the world
as a witness to all the nations,
and then the end will come.

(Matthew 24: 14)

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles

My Witnesses
Andrew Murray

“My Witnesses unto the uttermost
parts of the earth” 
(Acts 1: 8)

What words are these for the man who had been crucified by His enemies, speaking of the ends of the earth as His dominion. How could it have entered the mind of any writer to venture the prophecy that a Jew who had been crucified, whose whole life had been proved by that Cross to be a failure, and whose disciples had at the last utterly forsaken Him – that by them He should conquer the world?….Read more

Job; Behold Your God
A. B. Simpson

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear:
but now my eye sees You.”
(Job 42: 5)

The book of Job is the world’s oldest poem and presents some of the profoundest spiritual teachings. The leading figure of the drama is a man who, by the testimony of God, was a good man, the best man on earth, a man who “feared God, and eschewed evil.” Yet to this man God permitted the severest tests….Read more

Forbid Him Not
N. W. T

Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My name can soon afterward speak evil of Me. For he who is not against us is on our side.”
(Mark 9: 38-40)

We do not know much about this man mentioned, but he had evidently been among the multitudes watching Jesus and his disciples casting out demons and healing the sick. He had taken knowledge of Jesus….Read more

Call Back
Various

Life is a steep climb, and it does the heart good to have somebody “call back” and cheerily beckon us on up the high hill. We are all climbers together, and we must help one another. This mountain climbing is serious business, but glorious. It takes strength and steady step to find the summits. The outlook widens with the altitude. If anyone among us has found anything worth while, we ought to “call back.”…Read more

Tell The King’s Household
Frances Havergal

“Therefore, come, that we may go
and tell the king’s household.’
(2 Kings 7: 9)

JUST the last persons who would seem to need ‘good tidings,’ and the last, too, who would seem likely to have them to convey! But oh, how true the figure is! How many among the King’s own household need the good tidings which these lepers brought! For they are starving so near to plenty, and poor within reach of treasure, and thinking themselves besieged when the Lord has dispersed the foe for them….Read more

The Wise Labourer
A. B. Saint

“He that gathers in summer is a wise son, but he that sleeps in harvest is a son that causes shame.”
(Proverbs 10: 5)

What powerful words! As in the natural so in the spiritual; those who make no provision reap no reward. The summer is the gathering time, those who do not reap for the Lord down here will have little stored away in heaven….Read more

The Messenger and The Message
C. H. Spurgeon

The ancient prophets were called seers; and you and I, beloved, must see Christ, or else we cannot bear witness to him. As the prophets saw Christ by faith, and as John actually looked upon him, and then bore witness to him, so must you and I see him, — not necessarily with these eyes, but with the eyes of our spirit, with the eyes of our mind and heart, we must see Jesus before we can rightly speak of him….Read more

Reader’s Testimony

Revival History 1921 The Fishing Communities

News of the Welsh revival in 1904 spread  all over the country, and indeed the world, and sparked the desires and hopes of the saints that God could do the same in their own home town.

One such town was the large fishing port in Suffolk, Lowestoft, where there was little spiritual interest besides among the youth at the Fisherman’s Bethel and the Baptist Church, and it was the pastor of this church, Hugh Ferguson, that began in earnest to pray for a mighty move of God. 

One by One
R. A. Torrey

We cannot all preach, we cannot all sing, we cannot all teach, but there is not one who cannot speak about the Saviour. Even the invalid shut up at home can do “One by One” work. I knew of a poor, outcast girl in New York City who was brought to Christ. She only lived two years after her conversion, but they were years of wonderful fruitfulness….Read more

Anointed to Preach The Gospel Various

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor……”
(Luke 4:18)

Some of us are shivering and wondering why the Holy Spirit does not fill us. We have plenty coming in, but we do not give it out. Give out the blessing that you have, start larger plans for service and blessing, and you will soon find that the Holy Ghost is before you, and He will present you with blessings for service, and give you all that He can trust you to give away to others….Read more

Witnesses Unto Me
C. H. Spurgeon

“And ye shall be witnesses unto me.”
(Acts 1: 8)

In order to learn how to discharge your duty as a witness for Christ, look at his example. He is always witnessing: by the well of Samaria, or in the Temple of Jerusalem: by the lake of Gennesaret, or on the mountain’s brow….Read more

Biography

“God, I know surely that You do not exist. But if perchance You exist, which I contest, it is not my duty to believe in You; it is Your duty to reveal Yourself to me.”

It was a sincere prayer from an intellectual and ardent Marxist, Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian Jew born in 1909, who had been born into poverty but had gained a wealthy lifestyle as a stockbroker….Read more

Not Ashamed of The Gospel (From Russia)

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony, 
and they loved not their lives unto the death.
(Revelation 12: 1)

The year is unknown, but the following letters give a window into the joy, devotion, and willingly paid price of a young Russian woman who turned from atheism to Christ through the love and prayers of a believer….Read more 

Bible Study

Called to be Witnesses unto Me