acts-1:8

By the mercy of God I have been a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ since my early youth. Over the years of my earthly pilgrimage I have known what it is like to climb great spiritual mountains and how it feels to fall into chasms of blackness. I have had long seasons of great Christian joy and inte... Read More

What is a Light-House of Prayer? It’s a cluster of two or more believers who are banded together to pray for, care about, and share the blessings of Christ with their neighbors. Let’s unpack that definition phrase by phrase. It’s a cluster of two or more believers. The cluster may simply be the memb... Read More

Structure. Time for others. Extensive Bible study. Regular quiet times. Long, in-depth conversations. These words describe days of a season in my life gone by. In those days I arose early, before punching the clock, for my routine, rarely-interrupted time of devotion and prayer. My after hours consi... Read More

"Power belongeth unto God" (Psa. 62:11). "Ye shall receive power, after…." (Acts 1:8). In the valedictory service of Acts chapter one, our Lord holds before His disciples the promise of power. The word is "dunamis" – ability (Young). We have gravely pauperized this text. We have held it before convi... Read More

Several years ago, I knelt in prayer with a young woman who wanted to be holy. I asked her if she would give up everything for Jesus. She answered that she would. I then thought I would put a hard test to her, and asked her if she would be willing to go to Africa as a missionary for Jesus. She said,... Read More

The promise of the Holy Spirit to the disciples was in a very marked way the “Promise of the Father,” but it was only realized after many days of continued and importunate praying. The promise was clear and definite that the disciples should be endued with power from on high (Acts 1:8), but as a con... Read More

Progress is the great law of life. Most of us have known better days, and all of us can be better than we are. Now is the time for us to take spiritual inventory of our lives, to select our priorities and put first things first. Most of us have only touched the border of our achievement. We know so ... Read More

The waiting disciple, the ready disciple will be a busy disciple. "Occupy till I come" (Luke 19:13) is the Lord’s command. And he is not only to be occupied, busy, but to be busy about the very thing the Lord has given each one to do. He says, "To every man his work" (Mark 13:34). We must each one g... Read More

Among the spiritually significant stories of the Old Testament, there are none that contain deeper teaching for the individual overcomer and the whole militant Church of Christ than those of the outflow from the smitten rock and the ensuing battle with Amalek, recorded in the seventeenth chapter of ... Read More

What shall be our occupation, as disciples of the Lord Jesus, while we watch and wait for Christ’s return? It is not enough that we have a personal experience of repentance, faith, forgiveness, adoption and sanctification. It is not enough that we study the Word to search out the deep things of Prov... Read More