II. Kings 4:1,7 There are seasons of affliction which are common to all, but only the children of God have wonders wrought for them in such experiences. It is on the cloudy day that the rainbow of His promise is most easily seen. “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto…
II. Kings 5:1,15 Naaman had a very blighted Life. Naaman had almost all that a man of the world could wish in the way of honour, and fame, and success, but there was a sore in his life that all the praise and wealth of the world could not heal, “he was a leper” (v.9).…
Job 1:1,10 Job was quite unconscious of the fact that he is being used by God as an object-lesson to all generationsand to all people. He knows nothing at all about the conference that has taken place concerning his life. To the apostle Peter Jesus said, ” Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have…
Hebrew 12:1,14 The great outstanding feature of our life as a Christian is that we have life “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (Jh.10:10). Not the common natural life of the flesh, but the new Spirit-begotten life of God, which makes us a newcreation,“ But…
Mathew 24:37 “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the Coming of the Son of Man be.” (37.). According to the teaching of Jesus Christ, Noah was a real person, the flood was a great fact, and the second Coming of Christ as the Son of Man will be an unfailing certainty.…
Nahum 1:1,8 The prophet Nahum is here burdened with a painful sentence. But while the judgments recorded were against old Nineveh, Yet, these words are a very solemn revelation to us of the great and fearful God with whom sinners will have to deal with “And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,…
Deuteronomy 2:1,7 As pilgrims and strangers on the earth there are two dangers to which we are ever exposed, “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” (Heb.11:13). That of sitting at ease in our present comfortable condition,…
