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 […]

Pray that the Holy Spirit give you the peace of Christ today: The lessons of Christ, setting forth meekness and humility and love as essential to growth in grace and a fitness for His work, were of the highest value to John. He treasured every lesson and constantly sought to bring his life into harmony […]

Pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit, to become a doer and not only a hearer of the Word:  John and Judas are representatives of those who profess to be Christ’s followers. Both these disciples had the same opportunities to study and follow the divine Pattern. Both were closely associated with Jesus and were […]

Ask the Holy Spirit for a revelation of God’s transforming power of love today: John did not naturally possess loveliness of character. He was not only proud, self-assertive, and ambitious for honor, but impetuous, and resentful under injury. An evil temper, the desire for revenge, the spirit of criticism, were all in this “son of […]

Prayer is heaven’s ordained means of success in the conflict with sin and the development of Christian character. The divine influences that come in answer to the prayer of faith will accomplish in the soul of the suppliant all for which he pleads. For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christ-like […]

Ask the Holy Spirit to help you seriously engage in this battle to overcome your defects of character: When a man is earnestly engaged day by day in overcoming the defects in his character, he is cherishing Christ in his soul-temple; the light of Christ is in him. Under the bright beams of the light […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to give you victory today:  True happiness will be the result of every self-denial, every crucifixion of self. One victory won, the next is more easily gained. Had Moses neglected the opportunities and privileges granted him of God, he would have neglected the light from heaven and would have been […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to take you one step further toward Him today:  Moses endured the reproach of Christ, considering reproach greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt. He believed what God had said and was not influenced to swerve from his integrity by any of the world’s reproaches. He walked the earth […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to open your heart so you can see the Unseen today: The faith of Moses led him to look at the things which are unseen, which are eternal. He left the splendid attractions of court life because sin was there. He gave up present and seeming good that flattered only […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to do this “New Thing” in you through His Word today: In doing the work of a humble shepherd, in being forgetful of self and interested for the flock given to his charge, he was to become fitted for the most exalted work ever entrusted to mortals, that of being […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to do this “New Thing” in you through His Word today: In doing the work of a humble shepherd, in being forgetful of self and interested for the flock given to his charge, he was to become fitted for the most exalted work ever entrusted to mortals, that of being […]

Yesterday, I was fasting and praying for some people in my life—and (as usual), through my time with Him in Bible and SOP passages, God played out in MY LIFE what He wants to do in those people’s lives… One of the last messages He gave me was the above passage from AA ch. 54, […]

Pray for the Holy Spirit to tell you how His Word directly applies to YOU today: Moses had been a student. He was well educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, but this was not the only qualification which he needed to prepare him for his work. He was, in the providence of God, […]

Please pray that the Holy Spirit illuminate your mind as you eat and digest His Word directly to YOU today: When Moses saw the majesty of God, he exclaimed: “I exceedingly fear and quake.” The law pronounced death upon the transgressor. Then the atoning sacrifice was presented before Moses. The cleansing blood of Christ was […]