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When Moses was at Pharaoh’s court, I suppose he thought that he was doing something really worth­while. He amounted to s...
06/18/2026

When Moses was at Pharaoh’s court, I suppose he thought that he was doing something really worth­while. He amounted to something there. But when the Lord let him be driven, or rather frightened away from that court and he went out into the wilderness, I suppose he thought his occupation there was hardly worthwhile. Why, what was he doing anyway? Just taking care of the sheep, leading them out in the morning to the pasture, bringing them back to the fold at night, seven days in the week—just doing this and nothing more. I suppose it did not look very big to Moses, but it did to God. God thought it worth so much that He kept him at that work for forty years. Then Moses, at the age of eighty, when it looked as if he were about done with this world, was called to go to do something for the Lord. That forty years in the wilderness counted now. It had given him experience that helped to quality him for the work to which God had called him. He came out of there worthwhile be­cause he had done something worthwhile in those years. He had learned about God—oh, so many things he had learned! And now he was ready to put that knowledge into practice. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Just simply living salvation before people—yes, that is what counts, and it counts more than any­thing else. That is one...
06/17/2026

Just simply living salvation before people—yes, that is what counts, and it counts more than any­thing else. That is one of the very greatest things that an individual has ever done in this world. Talk is cheap, and many people can talk all day and say scarcely anything either. Some people can sway great crowds by their eloquence, they can accomplish won­derful things, but still they cannot live salvation, or at least, they do not. There is no power so great in this world as the simple power of a holy, quiet life. ⁠
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If all God’s people could learn this lesson—if they could learn that it really counts just simply to live right, just simply to be an ordinary, everyday Chris­tian; if they could once get that thoroughly fixed in their minds and hearts—it would glorify their lives. It would exalt the common service, it would shed a halo over their lives, and they would not feel discouraged. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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We all like to feel what we are doing counts for something, that it is really worthwhile. We like to see practical resul...
06/16/2026

We all like to feel what we are doing counts for something, that it is really worthwhile. We like to see practical results. We know that much labor is lost in the world, and we do not want ours to be lost. The ordinary things of life seem to amount to so little. Some think: “If I could just preach I shouldn’t mind working for the Lord. But, oh! I can do so little—noth­ing worthwhile at all, nothing worth the effort. What can my feeble efforts accomplish anyway?” ⁠
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Others think that if they could go to a foreign land and work among the heathen, draw people to Christ there, send back home great reports of what they have accomplished, have their names published in the paper and have people talking about them, then that would be worthwhile. But since they are only ordi­nary people and can do only ordinary things, it seems to them that it hardly pays to try. They will just fol­low the line of least resistance and do things the easi­est way. Of course they want to do what they can for God, but they want to do something really worth­while. ⁠
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And now, reader, what is really worthwhile in life? Is it only those things that make a great show? Is it only those things that the world counts great? A sis­ter said to me recently in a letter, “I used to think that I could no nothing worthwhile, but I have found that just simply living salvation before people is a great work.” Now, that sister has learned a wonder­ful lesson. She has found a truth so great that most people do not recognize it as truth when they do find it. It is one of those truths that have the peculiarity of seeming small and insignificant, though they are the very fundamentals of truth. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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There are things which we know and feel but which do not result from our own study. We have a consciousness that there i...
06/15/2026

There are things which we know and feel but which do not result from our own study. We have a consciousness that there is some supreme power over us, and we are conscious of a certain responsibility to, and a dependence upon, this higher power. Read­ing the Bible and reasoning may give us clearer ideas of this power and our relations to it, but we have the consciousness of its existence without being taught. ⁠
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This is never more clearly seen than in the case of the man who denies the existence of a personal God. As surely as he rejects the God of the Bible, he sets up something else in His place, and though he may call it by some other name than God, he will, nevertheless, attribute to it the powers and actions that belong to God. These intuitions by which we know, without being conscious of how we know, are given us by God for our protection and safety, and we ought to give careful heed to their testimony. ⁠
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Sometimes our reason sees no harm in a thing but we do not feel just right about it. A doctrine may look ever so plausible and be ever so interesting, but if we feel an inward uneasiness after consideration of it, there is a reason why we should be careful. Our intuition will often detect something wrong, when our reason has not yet done so. These intuitions are not to be disregarded. They are God’s means of warning us against unseen dangers. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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The Bible is a living book. What it is to us de­pends on what we are to it. If we approach it with unbelief and sneers, ...
06/14/2026

The Bible is a living book. What it is to us de­pends on what we are to it. If we approach it with unbelief and sneers, it shudders like a wounded thing and closes up its heart, and we gaze only on a cold and gross exterior. We behold the form of its words but discern not the treasures hidden in them. It ap­pears cold and lifeless and repellent, and we go away depressed and unbelieving. ⁠
If we approach it reverently, trustfully and confi­dently, it opens up to us its hidden depths. It shows to us its wonders. We may see in it unequaled beau­ties, unfading glories, magnificent vistas of thought; we may hear its voice of love, tender beyond words; we may feel the warmth of its affection, be uplifted by its hopefulness and thrilled with the tones of its joy-bells. ⁠
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If we open to it our heart’s door and pour out our treasures of affection, it in turn opens to us a great storehouse, and we may eat and be satisfied, and drink and thirst not. We may revel in its rich per­fume, the rhythmic cadences of its music, the splen­dor of its heavenly light, and to us there is no ques­tion whether it is the living truth. ⁠
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The Bible is to the Christian what the forest is to him who delights in nature. He who walks through the forest laughing, talking and singing, hears not the sweet notes of the songster nor sees the wild things. He who would see and hear the things that delight the nature-lover must steal softly and silently along, watching his footsteps, hiding in the shadows, and thus he may see nature as she is. Likewise, he who comes to the Bible full of self-importance, with mind and heart self-centered, sees not the natural beauty of the Bible. We must come to it effacing self, seeking not our own but the things of Christ, and we shall find it a mine of spiritual gold, a fountain of living water, a balm for every sorrow, a light in every dark hour—the one and only Book that meets and satisfies the needs of the human soul.⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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Your eyes are all right; they will see things all right, but the question is, What is behind your eyes—doubts or faith? ...
06/13/2026

Your eyes are all right; they will see things all right, but the question is, What is behind your eyes—doubts or faith? That is the thing that really counts. Doubts will magnify your troubles, will make them look very great. Doubts will make your power look very small. They will make your ability to fight look as nothing. They will make you feel like running or surrendering. Faith will not work that way. It will fill you with cour­age; it will put the song of victory in your heart. Get faith behind your eyes. Look out by faith. ⁠
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Remember that God will fight your battles. Be strong and of a good courage, and you will overcome your foes. But doubts will spoil things for you. Doubts will take away what courage you have. Doubts will ruin you if you let them. So get rid of your doubts. Look to God, believe in Him, trust in Him and the victory will be yours. Take your stand with Caleb and Joshua. Do you remember what became of the spies? The ten doubters died in the wilderness, and their bodies were left there, but the two who had faith went on into the Promised Land and died full of years and of honors.⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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When we look at the obstacles in our way, when we look at the troubles that seem to be coming, when we look at the thing...
06/12/2026

When we look at the obstacles in our way, when we look at the troubles that seem to be coming, when we look at the things that are before us, do we look through faith like Caleb and Joshua, or do we look through doubts like the ten? Do your trials and difficulties make you feel like a grasshopper? Does it seem that you would surely be overwhelmed? Does it look as though you could never get through, that you might as well give up? If so, you are looking at things through your doubts just as the ten did.⁠
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The people who win, the people who are victori­ous, are those who look at things through their faith. They do not compare their troubles and trials and difficulties with themselves; they compare them with God. They behold God’s greatness. They behold the things that He has done in the past. They see how He has helped others. They see that they have been helped in the past, that God has stood right by them and helped them through. They get their faith and their eyes working together and then they can see a way out of their difficulties just as Caleb did. “They shall be bread for us,” faith says. “No use to be afraid. Giants don’t count. What is a giant beside God?” Doubts say, “Oh, what shall we do?” Faith takes a new grip on its sword and says, “Come on; let’s go and conquer them.” ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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But Caleb and Joshua had no doubts. They had faith in God—faith that did not waver. They remem­bered the Red Sea. They r...
06/11/2026

But Caleb and Joshua had no doubts. They had faith in God—faith that did not waver. They remem­bered the Red Sea. They remembered the manna from heaven. They remembered the other things that God had done. They looked at the situation through their faith and, instead of feeling as if they were grasshop­pers, they felt themselves more than a match for the giants. The two were not at all frightened. “Why,” they said, in effect, when they came back, “they will be only bread for us. We shall just eat them up. They have heard what God has done among us, and they are too scared to fight. Their defense is departed from them.” Then these men of faith began talking about the other side. “The Lord is with us; fear them not.⁠
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What do those fellows amount to since God is not with them? What do their fortresses amount to? Let us go up at once,” said they. “Why, we can whip them with ease.” ⁠
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But the people listened to both sides, and their ears heard, but instead of listening through their faith to Joshua and Caleb, they listened through their doubts to the ten and believed them and became very much frightened; in consequence they went to mur­muring and complaining because Moses had brought them out there to face such a situation. The result was that they were turned back, defeated by their enemies, and had to wander forty years in the wil­derness until all the old ones perished. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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When the ten saw those sons of Anak, they felt that they were as grasshoppers in comparison with such giants. “Why, we a...
06/10/2026

When the ten saw those sons of Anak, they felt that they were as grasshoppers in comparison with such giants. “Why, we amount to nothing at all,” the ten spies thought. “Those great big fellows could walk right over us.” And when they recalled their sensations, the land did not seem so fine either, and they said, “It is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof.” They did not stop to con­sider that their own words condemned them. How could a land be such a bad land and yet the people who lived in it be so strong and so great? ⁠
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Joshua and Caleb, however, were not to be fright­ened by the stories that the others told. So they said, “The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.” Numbers 14:7. They also held fast their confidence in the ability of Israel to gain the land saying, “If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is de­parted from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.” (Verses 8-9.) ⁠
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Now all these men were probably honest. They probably described things just as they appeared to them. What was the difference? The difference was not in their eyes but in that which was back of their eyes. When the ten went through the land and saw the giants, they forgot all about God. It was them­selves against the giants, with God left out, and when we leave God out, things look very different. How big those giants looked! “We poor grasshoppers had bet­ter be getting out of here quickly. We do not stand any show at all,” they thought. “How could Israel fight with such fellows anyway?” The ten were full of doubts and they looked through their doubts, and their doubts magnified the Anakim. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio.⁠
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The appearance that things have to us depends, to a great extent, upon the way that we look at them.. Often two or more ...
06/09/2026

The appearance that things have to us depends, to a great extent, upon the way that we look at them.. Often two or more persons look at the same thing, and each one sees something quite different from what the others see. Persons who see the same thing will often have very different stories to tell about it afterwards and will be very differently affected by what they see. This is not because their eyes differ so much, but because their mental attitude affects the interpretation of what they see. ⁠
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A notable example of this is seen in the twelve spies sent by Moses to spy out the land of Canaan. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. Their enemies had been destroyed behind them. They had come, at God’s command, almost to the borders of the Prom­ised Land. Here the people camped while the spies went to see the country. They passed through it and viewed the land and the people and presently came back with their report. It was a wonderful land, they agreed, a land flowing with milk and honey. The samples of the fruit they brought back were large and fine specimens. Of course the people were at once very eager to possess such a land, but the question came up, Are we able to do so? What kind of people are they over there? Are they good fighters? Are they courageous? Do they have strongly fortified cities?⁠
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As soon as this question was broached, there was a difference of opinion. Caleb said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.” Numbers 13:30. The others, however, did not agree with him, except Joshua. They said, “We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.… And all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” (Verses 31-33.) ⁠
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Now what made the difference in their views? They all saw the same things; they all saw the same people, but when it came to telling of them, they told very different stories. The difference must have lain in the men themselves. ⁠
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Heart Talks by C. W. Naylor⁠
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Link for book in bio. ⁠
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