New Wineskins Daily Devotional
Ask God for a continual baptism of His Holy Spirit, that this yearning for Him which He has placed inside of you will grow and shine “ever brighter unto the perfect day”: As your soul yearns after God, you will find more and still more of the unsearchable riches of His grace. As you contemplate […]
Pray for the Holy Spirit to be the oil burning in your lamp, so Jesus can shine more brightly through your life today: The nearer we come to Jesus, and the more clearly we discern the purity of His character, the more clearly shall we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the less shall […]
Ask that the Holy Spirit give you encouragement to keep fighting the good fight: Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, a day, but of a lifetime. It is not gained by a happy flight of feeling, but is the result of constantly dying to sin, and constantly living for Christ. Wrongs […]
Today, pray that as you commune with Christ, the Holy Spirit illuminate an area that needs His transforming grace: Such transformation of character as is seen in the life of John is ever the result of communion with Christ. There may be marked defects in the character of an individual, yet when he becomes a […]
Today, pray that the Holy Spirit give you a “heart overflowing with love” for God and His people: Jesus loves those who represent the Father, and John could talk of the Father’s love as no other of the disciples could. He revealed to his fellow men that which he felt in his own soul, representing […]
Today, thank God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for always being there for you: In the courts above, Christ is pleading for His church—pleading for those for whom He has paid the redemption price of His blood. Centuries, ages, can never lessen the efficacy of His atoning sacrifice. Neither life nor death, height nor […]
Ask the Holy Spirit to implant in you His principle of unselfish love today: John strove to lead the believers to understand the exalted privileges that would come to them through the exercise of the spirit of love. This redeeming power, filling the heart, would control every other motive and raise its possessors above the […]
“Abide in Me…for without Me you can do nothing!” Divine love makes its most touching appeals to the heart when it calls upon us to manifest the same tender compassion that Christ manifested. Those who have never experienced the tender, winning love of Christ cannot lead others to the fountain of life. His love in […]
Ask the Holy Spirit to create in you a love for all your “neighbors” today: A new commandment I give unto you,” Christ said, “That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” John 13:34. What a wonderful statement; but, oh, how poorly practiced! In the church of God today […]
Pray that the Holy Spirit fill your soul with admiration for Christ today: In the life of the disciple John, true sanctification is exemplified. During the years of his close association with Christ, he was often warned and cautioned by the Saviour; and these reproofs he accepted. As the character of the Divine One was […]