A Heavenly Shake-Up

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them ...

Better for Bending

While lunching at a friend's house, I had to borrow a spoon and have her bend it so it could be inserted in my hand splint and I could feed myself. ...

Times of Improvement

Suffering times are a Christian's best-improving times.

A Prayer for Affliction

O may God put me into one furnace after another, that my soul may be transparent; that I may see God as he is.

Let the Winds Blow

We cannot be established except by suffering. It is of no use our hoping that we shall be well-rooted if no March winds have passed over us. The young ...

God Gives Real Tests

God is always testing us, and his testing does not come when we are warned and ready. Anyone can pass a test then. ...

God's tests catch us unprepared, ...

Burned or Purified?

Warren Wiersbe says that realism is idealism that has been through the fire and got purified; cynicism is idealism that has been through the fire and ...

Growing Saints Takes Time

The church should be a community of dates instead of pumpkins. Pumpkins you can harvest in six months. Dates have to be planted and tended by people who ...

Leaving the Comfort Zone

If we would be enlarged, we must accept all that God sends us to develop and expand our spiritual life. We are so content to abide at the old level that ...

Hemmed in to Nothing

God has hemmed me in to nothing, that I many have nothing, do nothing, want nothing, save Himself.