"God at Eventide" (Evening Devotionals) and
"God Calling" (Morning Devotionals) Archives
Aug 1 - Aug 22
"God at Eventide" (Evening Devotionals) and
"God Calling" (Morning Devotionals) Archives
Aug 1 - Aug 22
Sunday, August 1 - Evening
Further learn this lesson. There are many of My workers and servants in different spheres of activity to whom you owe the seed of word or example or loving help that has influenced you. It is a sacred trust. Use it fully.
August 2 - Morning Harvest My Lord, we seek Thy Blessing I love to pour My blessing down in rich, in choicest measure. But like the seed-sowing--the ground must be prepared before the seed is dropped in. Yours to prepare the soil--Mine to drop the seed-blessing into the prepared soil. Together we share in, and joy in, the harvest. Spend more time in soil-preparing. Prayer fertilizes soil. There is much to do in preparation. August 2 - Evening Still Love and Laugh
Joy of Harvest
He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life everlasting, that both he that reaps and he that sows may rejoice together.
Do you not see that if you are careless about the reaping you have prevented the harvest-joy of the sower? If by your life and character you do not reap to the full that which they have sown, you are robbing them of the well-earned fruit of their labors.
This has ever been My command to you. Love and Laugh. There is a quality about true Love to which laughter is attuned. The Love that does not pulse with joy (of which laughter is the outward sign) is but solicitude. The Joy of Heaven is consciousness of God's Love.
It was that Love that brought Me to your world. Consciousness of that Love called forth your joy. Study My Words in the Upper Room -- "Loved of My Father"; "I will love him"; "That your Joy might be full."
August 3 - Morning
Give Every Moment
My children, how dear to my Heart is the cry of Love that asks for all of Me, that wishes every action, thought, word and moment to be Mine. How poor the understanding of the one who thinks that money to be used in this good work or that, is the great gift to offer. Above all I desire Love, true, warm, childlike Love, the trusting understanding Love, and then the gift I prize next is the gift of the moments, of all the moments.
I think even when Love's impetuous longing to serve Me has offered Me all Life, every day, every hour, I think even then it is a long, and not an easy lesson, to learn, what it means to give Me the moments. The little things you planned to do, given up gladly at My suggestion, the little services joyfully rendered. See Me in all and then it will be an easy task.
This is a priceless time of initiation, but remember that the path of initiation is not for all; but only for those who have felt the sorrow-cry of the world that needs a Savior and the tender plea of the Savior Who needs followers through whom He can accomplish His great work of Salvation joyfully.
August 3 - Evening
Love Lightens the Load
In due season you shall reap if you faint not
The way may seem long and dreary. Sometimes My Heart of Love aches that I have to ask you to tread so long and so weary a way. Yet to each of My followers the road chosen is surely the one best suited to his feet. But feet grow weary. Have you let Love smooth the toilsome way? We walk together.
August 4 - Morning
Eternal Life
O Jesus, we love Thee so and long to serve Thee.
My children, you are both to do mighty things for Me. Glories and wonders unfold. Life is one glorious whole. Draw into your beings more and more this wonderful Eternal Life. It is the flow of the Life Eternal through spirit, mind and body, that cleanses, heals, restores, renews youth, and passes on to you to others, with the same miracle-working power. "And this is Life Eternal that they may know Thee…and Jesus Christ, whom Thou has sent." So seek by constant contact to know Me more and more.
Make Me the one abiding Presence of your day of which you are conscious all the time. Seek to do less and to accomplish more, to achieve more. Doing is action. Achievement is successful action. Remember that Eternal Life is the only lasting life, so that all that is done without being done in the Power of My Spirit, My Life, is passing. All done in that Spirit-Life is undying.
"I will give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of My Hands." So Eternal Life means security too, safety. Dwell increasingly in the consciousness of that security, that safety.
August 4 - Evening
Vision of Love
Love is the flower. Love is the seed from which that flower germinates. Love is the soil in which it is nourished and grows. Love is the sun that draws it to fulfillment. Love is the fragrance that a flower gives out. Love is the vision that sees its beauty, and God is Love, all-knowing, all-understanding, from whom all Good proceeds.
August 5 - Morning
Hour of Need
Lord, come to us and heal us.
I am your Healer, your Joy, your Lord. You bid Me, your Lord, come. Did you not know that I am here? With noiseless footfall I draw near to you. Your hour of need is the moment of My Coming. Could you know My Love, could you measure My Longing to help, you would know that I need no agonized pleading.
Your need is My Call.
August 5 - Evening
Love in the Unlovely
Love to all must mark all you do if you own Me Lord, and if you would be a true follower of Me. "His banner over me was Love." Those words express not only the loving Protection round you, but the banner under which you march as soldiers of Me, your Captain.
It serves to remind you of that for which you stand before the world. It is in Love's Name you march. In Love's Name you conquer. It is Love you are to take into the unlovely places of the world. It is the only equipment you need.
August 6 - Morning
Dwell Apart
Rest more with Me. If I, the Son of God, needed those times of quiet communion with My Father, away, alone, from noise, from activity--then surely you need them too. Refilling the Spirit is a need. That dwelling apart, that shutting yourself away in the very secret place of your being--away alone with Me. From these times you come forth in Power to bless and heal.
August 6 - Evening
Deaf Ears
Man cries for help. Man feels his need of Me. All unmindful that countless times I draw near unheard, pass on unnoticed, speak to deaf ears, touch brows fretted and wrinkled by earth's cares. "The Christ is dead," man says. Alive and longing, full of a living tenderness I passed his way to-day. He heeded not.
Man hears the storms, the wind, the earthquake, and his ears still pulsing with the echoes he hears no Still Small Voice. Oh, do not miss Me, My children.
August 7 - Morning
All is Well
Our Lord, bless us and keep us, we beseech Thee
My Keeping Power is never at fault, but only your realization of it. Not whether I can provide a shelter from the storm, but your failure to be sure of the security of that shelter. Every fear, every doubt, is a crime against My Love. Oh! Children, trust. Practice daily, many times a day, saying "All is well." Say it until you believe it, know it.
August 7 - Evening
Balm for All Ills
Love and care and pray. Never feel helpless to aid those you love. I am their help. As you obey Me and follow My teaching in your daily life, you will bring that help into operation. So, if you desire to be used to save another, turn to your own life. As far as you can, make it all that it should be.
Let your influence for Me extend even further and further. Let Love be your balm for all ills. The Power in which you will break down all barriers. It stands, too, for the Name of the God you love and serve. So with His banner floating over you, go on in glad confidence to victory. Your task to help, to strengthen, raise, heal. Only as you love will you do this.
August 8 - Morning
Empty Yourself
Rely on Me alone. Ask no other help. Pay all out in the Spirit of trust that more will come to meet your supply. Empty your vessels quickly to ensure a Divine Supply. So much retained by you, so much the less will be gained from Me. It is a Law of Divine Supply. To hold back, to retain, implies a fear of the future, a want of trust in Me. Wen you ask Me to save you from the sea of poverty and difficulty you must trust wholly to Me. If you do not, and your prayer and faith are genuine, then I must first answer your prayer for help as a rescuer does that of a drowning man who is struggling to save himself.
He renders him still more helpless and powerless until he is wholly at the will and mercy of the rescuer. So understand My leading. Trust wholly. Trust completely. Empty your vessel. I will fill it. You ask both of you to understand Divine Supply. It is a most difficult lesson for My children to learn. So dependent have they become on material supply they fail to understand. You must live as I tell you. Depend on Me.
August 8 - Evening
No Hurt
He that overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death.
The first death is the death to self, the result of overcoming, of self-conquest. This is gradual death. When it is complete, the second death shall cause no hurt. For it is only the conquering Spirit sloughing away its human habitation for a better life. The courage My Martyrs showed was not only fearlessness engendered in time of persecution through faith in Me, and in My power to support and sustain. It was consequent on the overcoming of self already achieved. Self, having truly died, this second death had no hurt for them. Theirs was then the Risen Life with Me.
Monday, August 9 - Morning
Monday, August 9 - Evening
Tuesday, August 10 - Morning
I have promised Peace but not leisure--heartrest and comfort, but not pleasure. I have said "In the world you shall have tribulation"; so do not feel, when adverse things happen, that you have failed or are not being guided, but I have said "In the world you shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
So learn of Me the overcoming Power of one who, though spat upon, scourged, misunderstood, forsaken, crucified, could yet see His Work had not been affected by these things, and cry triumphantly from His Cross "It is finished." Not the pain, the mocking, the agony, but His Task. Let this thought comfort you. Amid failure, discord, contumely, suffering, even now may friends and angels be prepared to sound the chorus "It is finished."
Tuesday, August 10 - Evening
Remember that Love is the Great Interpreter, so that those who love you and are near to you are the ones you can help the most. Do not pass them by for others, though your influence and helpfulness will gradually spread, in an ever-widening circle. You will live in a spirit of glad surpise.
Wednesday, August 11 - Morning
I and My Father are One. So He who made the ordered, beautiful world out of chaos, and set the stars in their courses, and made each plant to know its season, can He not bring out of your little chaos peace and order? And He and I are One, and you are Mine. Your affairs are Mine. It is My Divine Task to order My affairs--therefore yours will be ordered by Me.
Wednesday, August 11 - Evening
Lack of poise and dignity means lack of Spiritual Power, and this it must be your aim to possess. Be truthful in all things, honest with an honesty that can be challenged by the world, and by the standards of My Kingdom too.
Thursday, August 12 - Morning
Yes! Live in a large sense. Live to serve and to save. You may never go beyond one room, and yet you may become one of the most powerful forces for good in your country, in the world. You may never see the mighty work you do, but I see it, evil sees it. Oh! It is a glorious life, the life of one who saves. Fellow-workers together with me. See this more and more. Love with me, sharers of My Life.
Thursday, August 12 - Evening
The Glory of My leading, the wonder of its intimacy reveals such tender knowledge of you, past and future. Let this reveal Me to you, and so daily increase your knowledge of Me.
Friday, August 13 - Morning
Make it your practice, each of you, to review your character--take it in relation to life, to your dear ones, your household, friends, acquaintances, your country, your work. See where I, in the same relation or circumstances or situation, should act differently. Plan how best such and such a fault can be eradicated, or such and such sin, mistake or omission, be avoided. A weekly review at least you must have.
Friday, August 13 - Evening
So you will gain confidence and a former trust. As your faith is thus strenghthened My Power can operate more freely and fully on your behalf. You are only beginning to realize My Wonders. You will see them unfold more and more as you go on. Bring Me into all you do, into every plan, every action.
Saturday, August 14 - Morning
Think! Earth's richest, choicest gift held out--free to all, and no man to care to stretch out a hand to take it. Is that possible? My Gift, the richest Heaven has to offer, that precious Gift of Life, abundant Life--Man turns away from--rejects--will have none of. Let it not be true of you. Hasten to take--to use.
Saturday, August 14 - Evening
The Word of God grows in meaing, in intensity, for you, as you bring it into operation. Remember, too, the Word of God is that Word made flesh, Who dwells with you, your Lord Jesus Christ.
Sunday, August 15 - Morning
I have a plan that can only in this way be revealed. So rarely do I find two souls in union who want only My Will, and only to serve Me. The union is miracle-working. I have told you that I am longing to use you. Long ago My World would have been brought to Me, had I been served by many such two souls. It was always "two and two."
Sunday, August 15 - Evening
Thus you vindicate the ways of God with man--man made in His image, that Image marred, but I still had trust in man; trust that man, seeing the God-Image in Me, the man Christ Jesus, would aspire to rise again--into My Likeness.
Monday, August 16 - Morning
Monday, August 16 - Evening
Tuesday, August 17 - Morning
Live much outside. My medicines are sun and air, trust and faith. Trust is the spirit sun, your being enwrapped by the Divine Spirit. Faith is the soul's breathing in of the Divine Spirit. Mind, soul and body need helping. Welcome My treatment for you both. Draw near to Me. Nature is often My nurse for tired souls and weary bodies. Let her have her way with you both.
Tuesday, August 17 - Evening
Wednesday, August 18 - Morning
You know the difference between taking a glad loving, joy-springing child with you along the way, when the child anticipates each direction, accepts naturally each decision as to each turning--and the child who resists, and rebellious, has to be forced, even though in its quiter moments it may say, "Yes. I do want to go with you. I cannot be left alone, but I hate this way."
It is not the way, but the loving rejoicing in the way and the guidance, that matters to My disciples. You are ready for the guidance but you do not rejoice as you should, both of you, in the little daily stones of the way.
Wednesday, August 18 - Evening
Thursday, August 19 - Morning
Earth gave Me her best--a human temple to enclose My Divinity, and I brought to her the possession of Divine Power, Divine Love, Divine Strength, to be for ever expressed in those of her children who accepted Me, opened their hearts to Me, and sought to live My Life.
So, kneeling in the spirit of humility, turn your eyes Heavenward and realize the Majesty, the Power, the Beauty that may be yours. Remember there are no limits to My giving--there may be to your accepting. Oh! Rejoice at the wonders to which you are called and, seeing them in prayer, rise in My Strength, filled with the longing to attain them.
Thursday, August 19 - Evening
Friday, August 20 - Morning
And so to My followers today, as then, there come the shame and remorse and contempt of themselves, of the weak selves. They meant to be so strong and brave for Me. And then I have to protect them witha shiled of love, or never could they have the courage to fight and conquer. But this facing of the real self has to be--shame and remorse must come. That is a stage in development, but only a stage. What use the glad wings of a butterfly if it remained earthbound, weighed down by the thought of its contemptible past? And so now today I say to you both, that you are not to dwell for one moment on your sins, and mistakes, and faults, and bad habits of the past.
You must be as one who runs a race, stumbles and falls, rises and presses on to the goal. What avails it if he stays to examine the spot where he fell, to weep over the delay, over the shortsightedness that prevented his anticipating and avoiding the obstacles? So with you, and I lay it on you as a command--no looking back. Give yourself, and all you have ever met a fresh start from today. Remember no more their sins and failures, or your own. The rememberance is a current of disappointment that hinders the swimmer.
When I sent My Disciples out, two by two, no scrip, no two coats, no money, it was an injunction to be carried out literally, but figuratively too. On Life's journey throw away all that is not important. Cast aside all the hinderances, the past imperfections of others--the failure sense. Travel unladen, with a light heart, and a light heart means a weight of influence. My children, I love you.
Friday, August 20 - Evening
That Life Eternal which alone enables him to breathe, even here and now, the very air of Heaven, and to be inspired with the Spirit Life in which I lived on earth; God made man.
Saturday, August 21 - Morning
Worn-out and tired as you may seem, and pain-weary, I say unto you "Behold, I make all things new." That promise shall be fulfilled. Tenderly across the years, yet tenderly close and near to your tired noise-weary ears, I speak to you, My loved ones, today. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."
Saturday, August 21 - Evening
Man must be simply obedient to My Commands before his feet can come My way. Then, seeking, he truly finds Me. I said you must become as little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Sunday, August 22 - Morning
So the beauty of each day will live on after the trouble and distress, difficulty and pain of the day have passed. Learn from My Life of the suffering that saves others. So, you will sing in your pain. Across the grayest of days there are gleams of Sunlight.
Sunday, August 22 - Evening
Not to hear of My Joy, but to see it, as from hidden depths of security, where true Power and Peace abide, it ripples to the surface of the life, and is revealed to those round about.
Monday, August 23 - Morning
Monday, August 23 - Evening
So, when you miss the Joy-Light on your path, when the vision seems lost, and the Voice silent, then ask yourself, have you failed to live out the lessons that you were taught? Live out My teaching in your lives, and then, hungry for more, come to Me, Bread of Life, Food of your souls.
Tuesday, August 24 - Morning
Say many times "All things are possible with My Master, My Lord, My Friend." This truth accepted and firmly believed in, is the ladder up which a soul can climb from the lowest of pits to the sublimest of heights.
Tuesday, August 24 - Evening
Then, the Man of Sorrows walks a King with flashing eyes, as He sees the down-trodden, the oppressed, the persecuted and the persecutor, the tyrant and the weak. How long shall I have patience? HOW LONG?
Wednesday, August 25 - Morning
Though My Way may seem a narrow way it yet leads to Life, abundant Life. Follow it. It is not so narrow but that I can tread it beside you. Never too lonely with such companionship. A comrade infinitely tender, infinitely strong, will tread the way with you.
Wednesday, August 25 - Evening
Bricks lying on the ground seperate are useless; placed together, united, they form a building. So obedience is the mortar by which Truths are retained and become a part of the being. Truths which would otherwise be lost. So every Truth I give you must be lived out.
Thursday, August 26 - Morning
Thursday, August 26 - Evening
Friday, August 27 - Morning
Directly you put your affairs, their confusion, their difficulties, into My Hands I began to effect a cure of all the disharmony and disorder. You must know that I shall cause you no more pain in the doing of it than a physician, who plans and knows he can effect a cure, would cause his patient. I will do all as tenderly as possible. Tell Me that you trust Me in this.
Friday, August 27 - Evening
Does this mean loneliness for My Follower? Nay, rather, though you, the human-self you has no recognition, the real you, transformed by My Spirit, shares in all that fulness of operation and resultant joy.
You are no isolated being but one of a mighty Spirit-led family, partaker of all the family's well-being, co-operative in every act of each member, sharer of the blessing of each. A foretaste this of Heaven's oneness and fulfilment.
Saturday, August 28 - Morning
Saturday, August 28 - Evening
Consciously hand the day back to Me at its close, leaving with Me all that is incomplete. It is Heaven's work to complete man's imperfect or unfinished task, when it has been of Heaven's ordering. See the Joy of Life, and you by that very act increase it. Joy grows by man's consciousness of Joy.
Sunday, August 29 - Morning
Sunday, August 29 - Evening
Monday, August 30 - Morning
Monday, August 30 - Evening
Tuesday, August 31 - Morning
Tuesday, August 31 - Evening
Effort and Rest
Come to Me, talk to Me, dwell with Me and then you will know My Way is a sure way, My Paths are safe paths. Come very near to Me. Dig deep down into the soil of the Kingdom. Effort and rest--a union of the two.
Undivided
Live in My Peace. There must be no divided life in this. Peace in your heart. That heart-rest that comes from constant communion with Me, and from an undisturbed trust in Me. Then Peace round you, where others are conscious of Me, and of that Peace as My Gift, and the rest and strength and charm into which they are drawn.
Stray Sheep
O Jesus, guide our footsteps lest we stray.
For straying, My children, there is no cure except to keep so close to Me that nothing, no interest, no temptation, no other--can come between us. Sure of that you can but stay at My Side, knowing that, as I am the very Way itself, nothing can prevent your being in the Way, nothing can cause you to stray.
Glad Surprise
Live so near to Me that you may never miss the opportunity of being used by Me. It is the prepared instrument, lying nearest to the Master Craftsman's Hand, that is seized to do the work. So be very near Me, and you cannot fail to be much used.
You Are Mine
Jesus, Thou are watching over us to bless and care for us.
Yes! Remember that always--that out of darkness I am leading you to light. Out of unrest to rest, out of disorder to order. Out of faults and failure to perfection. So trust me wholly. Fear nothing. Hope ever. Look ever up to Me and I will be your sure aid.
Absolute Honesty
Learn to act slowly with sanctified caution. Precipitancy has not part in My Kingdom. Be more deliberate in everything, with the deliberation that should characterize every soul, for it is one of the credentials of that Kingdom.
Rule the World
Remember no prayer goes unanswered. Remember that the moment a thing seems wrong to you, or a person's actions to be not what you think they should be, at that moment begins your obligation and responsibility to pray for those wrongs to be righted, or that person to be different. Face your responsibilities. What is wrong in your country, its statesmen, its laws, its people? Think out quietly, and make these matters your prayer matters. You will see lives you never touched altered, laws made at your request, evils banished.
Holy Revelry
Live with Me. Work with Me. Ever delight to do My Holy Will. Let this bwe the satisfaction of your lives. Revel in it. Let the wonder of My care for you be so comforting that you may see no dullness in drudgery, in delay...
Perfection
O Jesus, help us, we beseech Thee.
Ever your Helper through dark to Light, through weakness to Power, through sin to Salvation, through danger to Security, through poverty to Plenty, through indifference to Love, through resentment to Perfect Forgiveness. Never be satisfied with a comparison with those around you. Ever let My words ring out. "Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." Stop short at nothing less.
The Road You Took
Look back the way I have led you. Say to yourself, "Is not My Lord as strong today as in the days that lie behind me? Did He not save me when human aid was powerless? Did He not keep His Promise, and protect and care for me? Can I remembering that, doubt His Power now?"
My Richest Gifts
Jesus, Thou didst come that we might have life, and have it more abundantly.
Life, spiritual, mental, physical, abundant Life--Joyous Life, Powerful Life. Yes! These I came to give you. Think you not My Heart was sad that so few would accept that gracious gift!
Riches of His Grace
It is for My followers to make My Word, the very Word of God, attractive. My Word has to dwell in you richly. There must be no stinting, no poverty, but an abundance of rich supply. Note the dwell. Nothing fitful, as I have told you. Make its home there. Fittingly belong there. No question of meager or exhausted supply.
Not Punishment
I will guide your efforts. You are not being punished for past sins. Take My Words, revealed to you each day from the beginning, and do in all things as I say. I have been showing you the way. You have not obeyed Me in this.
My Image Restored
Look unto Me until your gaze becomes so intense that you absorb the Beauty of Holiness. Then truly is the petty, the unworthy self ousted from your nature. Look to Me. Speak to Me. Think of Me. So you become transformed by the renewing of your mind. Other thoughts, other desires, other ways follow, for you become transformed into My Likeness.
No Tired Work
Rest. It is wrong to force work. Rest until Life. Eternal Life, flowing through your veins and hearts and minds, bids you to bestir yourselves, and work, glad work, will follow. Tired work never tells. Rest. Remember that I am your Physician, Healer of mind and body. Look to Me for cure, for rest, for Peace.
Expectancy
In all your work, your meetings with others, have ever the consciousness of My brooding Love surrounding you. Continue ye in My Love. Meet Me at eventide with loving expectancy.
Nature Laughs
I come, I come. You need Me. Live much out here. My sunshine, My glorious air, My Presence, My teaching. Would they not make holiday anywhere for you. Sunshine helps to make glad the heart of man. It is the laughter of Nature.
Premature Blessing
Give me strength to wait Thy time, accept Thy discipline
Only your failure to do this can delay the answers to your many prayers. The blessing your crave needs a trained, disciplined life, or it would work your ruin and bring upon you a world's criticism that could but harm the very cause, My cause, which you so ardently seek to serve.
Stones of the Way
I am here. No distance sperates Me. In the Spirit-Kingdom we measure not by earth's miles. A false word, a fear-inspired failure--a harsh criticism, these are the distances between a soul and Me. Your training must be severe, that your work for Me be unhindered. You seek My Presence and they who seek shall find. It is not a question of human searching, so much as human consciousness, unconditional surrender to My Will in the small, as in the big things of life. This it is that makes My Guidance possible.
Broden Bonds
Loose the fetters that bind me to earth and material things.
They shall be loosed. Even now your prayer is being answered. But you can only be completely released as you live with Me more and more. Thought-freedom from self-claims comes by a process of substitution. For every claim of self, substitute My claim. For every thought of fear or resentment substitute a thought of security in Me and of Joy in My Service.
A Human Temple
Lord, we Love Thee, we worship Thee.
Bow low before Me. Worship is not supplication, though both express man's varying needs of Me. Bow low in worship, conscious not only of My humanity but of My Divine Majesty. As you kneel in humble adoration I will tell you that when I took upon Me your humanity it was with the desire of raising that humanity to My Divinity.
Bounteous Giving
Lord I ask for Thine unlimited supply
I give with no niggard hand. See the Beauty in Nature, the profusion, the generosity. When I give you a work to do, a need of another's to meet, My supply knows no bounds. You, too, must learn this Divine generosity, not only towards the lonely, the needy, whom you contact, but towards Me, your Lord. Measure the wealth of Mary's gift by the offerings given to Me nowadays by those who profess their Love for Me. Ungenerous giving dwarfs the soul.
Shame and Remorse
My children! Yes! "Shield from scorn and cover from the chiding." Often I have to shield My disciples from their own scorn and chiding. My poor Peter could never have done My wor, never have had the courage to live on, or the daring to live for Me, but for the tender love with which I enwrapped him. Not from the anger of My Father, who is all Love, did I need to protect him--not from the scorn of My enemies, nor from the resentment of My friends. No! But from the hatred of Peter himself.
Glorious Opportunity
Man's life is no tragedy or comedy staged by a God of Whims. It is man's glorious opportunity of regaining what humanity lost--assisted by the One Who found the path-direct, and Who is ready at every point, and all along the way to supply man with the Life Eternal.
Broken Voices
Behold, I make all things new. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Every blessing I send you, every joy, every freedom achieved from poverty and worry will loosen a strand that ties you to earth. It is only those strands that bind you. Therefore your freedom will mean your rising into the realm of Joy and Appreciation. Clipped wings can grow again. Broken voices regain a strength and beauty unknown before. Your power to help other lives will soon bring its delight, even when, at first, the help to yourselves may seem too late to bring you Joy.
Where to Find Me - Always
Man so often seeks and marvels that he does not find. Why? Because only along the path of simple obedience am I to be found. I said, "I came not to do Mine own Will but the Will of Him that sent Me." I tread, as I always trod, the path of simple obedience. Along it shall I be found.
Gleams of Sunlight
Because you have both longed to save My World I let you have that training that shall fit you to save. Take your pains and sufferings, difficulties and hardships--each day, both of you, and offer them up for one troubled soul, or for some prayer specially needed to be answered.
True Power
Many are speaking ABOUT Me, and they marvel that their words have no force. They are not My Words, they are words about Me. Oh, how different. The world is surfeited with words about Me. The world needs to see Me, not to hear of My Power, but to see it in action. Not to hear of My Peace, but to see that it keeps My followers calm, unruffled and untroubled, no matter what the outward circumstances.
The Summit
See not the small trials and vexations of each hour of the day. See the one purpose and plan to which all are leading. If in climbing a mountain you keep your eyes on each stony or difficult place, as you ascend, seeing only that, how weary and profitless your climb! But if you think of each step as leading to the summit of achievement, from which glories and beauties will be open out before you, then your climb will be so different.
Hunger for Righteousness
Many are wondering why their desire for righteousness is not satisfied according to My Promise. But that Promise was on condition that there should be hunger and thirst. If the Truths I have given have not been absorbed, there can be no real hunger for more.
Sublime Heights
Our Lord, we know that Thou are great and able to deliver us.
I am your deliverer. Trust Me absolutely. Know that I will do the very best for you. Be ready adn willing for My Will to be done. Know that with Me all things are possible. Cling joyfully to that truth.
Might and Majesty
You see Me sometimes as the Man of Sorrows. Behold Me, too, in the Majesty of My Godhead. Not always can man disregard My Wishes and Break My Commands. I view the desecration of My Image, I see the ruin of the kingdom of earth which was to have been the Kingdom of the Lord. I see passions let loose and innocence spoiled, and man clamoring for the mastery.
Exhaustion
We seek Thee as Thou hast told us.
And seeking you shall find. None ever sought My Presence in vain. None ever sought My Help in vain. A breath of desire and My Spirit is there--to replenish and renew. Sometimes weariness and exhaustion are not signs of lack of spirit but of the guiding of the Spirit. Many wonderful things would not have happened but for the physical weariness, the mind-weariness of My servants, which made the resting apart, the giving up of works, a necessity...
House of the Spirit
"Lest perhaps you should let them slip"--"Hold fast that thou hast." Each Truth learned has to be cemented to your being by obedience. Your soul-character is like a building. It IS a building (the Temple) in which the God-Spirit can make a Home.
Accept Trials
Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My Will, and that Will you have said is your Will. Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new Life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the Kingdom I have prepared for you. The sunlight of My Presence is on your paths. Trust and go forward unafraid. My Grace is sufficient for all your needs.
"I Die Daily"
I enjoined that if any man would follow Me he should deny himself and take up his cross. The denial thus imporessed upon My disciples as necessary was not a mere matter of discipline, of giving up, of going without. It was a total repudiation of any claim the self might make, ignoring it, refusing to acknowledge it. Not once was this to be done, but daily; there was to be a daily recrucifixion of any part of the self-life not already completely dead.
Tangled Skeins
In quietness and confidence shall be your strenth.
Feel that...trust Me. Am I not leading you safely, faithfully? Will you believe Me, your Master, that all this is really to bring an answer to your prayers? Remember that I am the Supreme Being who knows all and can control all.
One Spirit-Led Family
Have no fear. Wonders unfold. In this Life or in the Larger Life, the lesson is the same--the absorbtion of My Spirit--living, thinking and acting in My Spirit until others are forced to see and recognize its Power and claims.
Continuous Service
Service is the Law of Heaven. My angels do always obey. "They serve Him continually" can be said of all who love Me. With Love there is continuous service in every action, and also even in rest. Take this not as the end but as the beginning of a New Life consecrated to My Service. A Life of Power and Joy.
Thread of Gold
Let My Spirit of Calm enter your being, and direct you, filling you with Peace and Power. Find in each day that thread of gold that runs through all, and that links up all the simple tasks and words and interests and feelings into one whole.
Breathe My Name
Just breathe My Name. It is like the pressure of a child's hand that calls forth an answering pressure, strengthens the child's confidence and banishes fear.
Divine Extravagance
Let Christ be in you in all wealth of Wisdom
It is the niggard attitude of My followers that casts a slur upon My religion. Dwell upon the Divine extravagance of terms used by those who know something of the wonder of My Kingdom--"The riches," The wealth," "The fulness." There is no stint with God. The only limit is set by the inability of My followers to take. Wealth of wisdom and unlimited Power to help others may be yours.
Give, Give, Give
Give abundantly. Feel that you are rich. Have no mean thought in your heart. Of Love, of thought, of all you have, give, give, give. You are followers of the World's Greatest Giver. Give of time, of personal ease and comfort, of rest, of fame, of healing, of power, of sympathy, of all these and many more. Learn this lesson, and you will become a great power to help others and to do mighty things.
Stand Invincible
Life, earth-life, is a battle. A battle in which man will always be the loser unless he summon Eternal Life-Forces to his aid. Do this and all that has the power to thwart you slinks back defeated. Say, in the little as well as in the big things of life, "Nothing can harm, nothing can make me afraid. In Him I conquer." Stand invincible, face to the foes of life.
Pray and Deny
This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
You must live a life of communion and prayer if you are to save others. Take My words as a command to you. "By prayer and fasting." Pray and deny yourself, and you will be used marvellously to save and help others.
Heaven's Music
Lift up your heart. Lift it up--its love and its longings, leaving fears and faults behind. Let your heart draw its strength and vitalising Joy and Confidence from Me, your Lord. Let no vibration stir your being that is not in harmony with the Eternal Music of My Kingdom.