Reflections on "My Utmost" January 29 Part II

by | Jan 30, 2012 | Articles

God has to destroy our determined confidence in our own convictions. "I know this is what I should do" – and suddenly the voice of God speaks in a way that overwhelms us by revealing the depths of our ignorance. We have shown our ignorance of Him in the very...

Reflections on "My Utmost" January 29

by | Jan 30, 2012 | Articles

But It Is Hardly Credible That One Could Be So Positively Ignorant!Who art Thou, Lord? — Acts 26:15"The Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand." There is no escape when Our Lord speaks, He always comes with an arrestment of the understanding. Has the voice...

Do I Have to Be Baptized in Order to Be Saved?

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Another unremitting heresy is stealing away the power and glory of the Cross in the Body of Christ.This heresy insists that a believer must be baptized in order to be saved.Many who support this wrong teaching quote a verse in the last chapter of Mark:"He that...

Reflections on "My Utmost" January 30 Part III

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Shall I tell my "Eli" what God has shown to me? That is where the dilemma of obedience comes in. We disobey God by becoming amateur providences – I must shield "Eli," the best people we know. God did not tell Samuel to tell Eli; he had to decide...

Have You Forgotten Your First Love?

by | Jan 30, 2012 | Articles

Are you cold, dead, kind of out of sorts? Do you feel as if God is a million miles away, not interested in you?I guarantee, God is not the problem:"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will...