“We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God’s tasks. The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is [Continue Reading…]

“Christ ‘binds up the broken hearted’ (Isaiah 61:1). As a mother is tenderest to the most diseased and weakest child, so does Christ most mercifully incline to the weakest. Likewise He puts an instinct into the weakest things to rely upon something stronger than themselves for support. The vine stays itself upon the elm, and [Continue Reading…]

“The covenant of grace is an agreement, which God has made with sinful man, out of His mere mercy and grace, wherein He undertakes for fallen man, to make him everlastingly happy. God engages that He will be our God; that is, as if He said . . .  ‘My grace shall be yours to pardon you, [Continue Reading…]

“Men Ought Always to Pray, and Not to Faint!” (Luke 18:1) So then, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:36)  John Bunyan reveals the wisdom of “praying always” by saying that, [Continue Reading…]

“God’s hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ’s intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the Beloved. ‘Having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the [Continue Reading…]

“I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.”  ~ George Whitefield

“One thing essential to growth in grace is diligence in the use of private means of grace. By these I understand such means as a man must use by himself alone, and no one can use for him. I include under this head private prayer, private reading of the Scriptures, and private meditation and self–examination. [Continue Reading…]

“Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments [Continue Reading…]

“The believer is sensible of his infirmities, for it is supposed that he is wrestling under them. He sees, he feels, that he is not man enough for his work; that his own hands are not sufficient for him, nor his own back for his burden; this is what drives him out of himself to [Continue Reading…]

“To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a new creature, which is the workmanship of God. Wherefore whoever receives the grace that is tendered in the gospel, they must be quickened by the power of God, their eyes [Continue Reading…]