(James Smith, “The Great Comforter” 1858) “It is the Spirit who quickens; the flesh profits nothing.” John 6:63 All real religion begins with the quickening of the Spirit. When we experience this . . . we begin to breathe after spiritual things; we open our eyes in a new world; we hunger [...]
Depression
(James Smith, “Loved and Blessed” 1860) To love, and be loved–is real happiness. Our highest honor, and our sweetest happiness below–is to be beloved of God. For if God loves us–He will withhold no truly good thing from us. “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely–for My anger has turned away from them!” [...]
(James Smith, “My Savior!” 1860) My soul, meditate for a few moments on what Jesus is to you, and what Jesus has done for you. Look back and glance at the circumstances in which He found you–and the deliverance which He wrought for you. 1. The circumstances in which Jesus found you. Jesus found me [...]
(Anne Dutton’s Letters on Spiritual Subjects) God’s love is . . . everlasting, free, sovereign, inseparable, great, and unchangeable! The happy objects of His love can never, never be separated from it! Neither . . . death nor life, heights nor depths, things present nor things [...]
“We must think of suffering in a new way, we must face everything in a new way. And the way in which we face it all is by reminding ourselves that the Holy Spirit is in us. There is the future, there is the high calling, there is the persecution, there is the opposition, there [...]
Jeremiah 29:11 “’For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘Plans to prosper you and not to harm you-to give you a hope and a future.’” Recently, God has been pounding this verse into my head. Did any of you watch Miss America a couple weeks ago? If you did [...]
Dancing With God When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing “dance” at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God’s will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn’t flow with the music, And everything [...]
