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06/02/2026

The Cross of Power
What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.… that I may know … the fellowship of his sufferings.
—Philippians 3:7, 10

Christians have decided where to put the cross. They have made the cross objective instead of subjective. They have made the cross external instead of internal. They have made it institutional instead of experiential.
Now, the terrible thing is that they are so wrong because they are half right. They are right in making the cross objective. It was something that once stood on a hill with a man dying on it, the just for the unjust. They are right that it was an external cross—for on that cross God performed a judicial act that will last while the ages burn themselves out.…
But here is where they are wrong: They fail to see that there is a very real cross for you and me. There is a cross for every one of us—a cross that is subjective, internal, experiential. Our cross is an experience within.… When that cross on the hill has been transformed by the miraculous grace of the Holy Spirit into the cross in the heart, then we begin to know something of its true meaning, and it will become to us the cross of power. JAF082–083

Our spiritual life is perfected by the constant recognition of the cross and by our unceasing application of it to all our life and being. CC031

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

06/01/2026

God’s Awesomeness
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
—Romans 11:33

Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary lists 550,000 words. And it is a solemn and beautiful thought that in our worship of God, there sometimes rush up from the depths of our souls feelings that all this wealth of words is not sufficient to express. To be articulate at certain times, we are compelled to fall back upon “Oh!” or “O!”—a primitive exclamatory sound that is hardly a word at all and that scarcely admits of a definition.
Vocabularies are formed by many minds over long periods and are capable of expressing whatever the mind is capable of entertaining. But when the heart, on its knees, moves into the awesome Presence and hears with fear and wonder things not lawful to utter, then the mind falls flat, and words, previously its faithful servants, become weak and totally incapable of telling what the heart hears and sees. In that awful moment, the worshiper can only cry “Oh!” And that simple exclamation becomes more eloquent than learned speech and, I have no doubt, is dearer to God than any oratory. BAM084–085

Today I want to just quietly reflect in unspoken awe.… Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

05/30/2026

One Enemy, One Goal
Let us lay aside every weight, and … let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
—Hebrews 12:1

All of us Christians have a common enemy, that old devil, Satan. As we stand together, pray together, worship together, we repudiate him and his deceptions. He is our common foe, and he uses a variety of manipulations to hinder us in our spiritual lives.
When by faith we have entered this lifelong spiritual course, the Holy Spirit whispers, “Do you truly want to be among the victors in this discipline?” When we breathe our “Yes! Yes!” He whispers of ways that will aid us and carry us to certain victory.
The Spirit tells us to throw off everything that would hinder us in the race. He tells us to be aware of the little sins and errors that could divert us from God's will as we run. But here is the important thing: He tells us to keep our eyes on Jesus, because He alone is our pacesetter and victorious example. JAF076–077

The secret of victory is to recognize the Conqueror within and the adversary as a conquered foe.… Satan has power only when he can make us dread him. He flees before the victorious faith and holy confidence. HS546–547

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

05/29/2026

SEEKING GOD

But as for me, I would seek God.
JOB 5:8

When we seek the Lord, He makes Himself known to us. He is forever accessible and available to those who seek Him.
We are wise to seek God anytime we have sinned, and to do so with prayer, fasting, and a genuinely humble heart.
We are wise to seek God anytime we face danger.
We must seek God with a humility of heart and a desire for a greater manifestation of righteousness in our hearts.
We are always to seek God as our first priority

Stanley, Charles F.

05/28/2026

Add Up the Columns
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have … everlasting life.
—Romans 6:22

God calls us into the joys and reality of eternal life. He calls us into purity of life and spirit, so that we may walk acceptably with Him. He calls us into a life of service and usefulness that brings glory to Himself as our God. He calls us into the sweetest fellowship possible on this earth—the fellowship of the family of God!
I hope I never hear any Christian bragging, even a little bit, about what he or she gave up and how much it cost him or her to answer God's call. Anything that we were or any abilities that we possessed were as nothing compared to what God has called us into as His believing children.
Why is it so difficult in our churches for us to be honest about our lives and our condition as sinners alienated from God? We did not give up anything when God, in His love and mercy, called us unto Himself and into the blessings of grace and forgiveness and peace. JAF049

Counting is not the language of poetry or sentiment but of cold, unerring calculation. It adds up the columns thus: sorrow, temptation, difficulty, opposition, depression, desertion, danger, discouragement … but at the bottom of the column God’s presence, God’s will, God’s joy, God’s promise, God’s recompense. ISS093

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

05/27/2026

WHERE’S YOUR TREASURE?

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

MATTHEW 6:20

Leaving this earth and going to heaven is not a popular thought in the contemporary church. The increasing emphasis on success, prosperity, and personal problem–solving reflects our earthbound perspective.
It’s also hard for us to comprehend a future heavenly reward. In this materialistic age, we rarely experience delayed gratification. Almost anything we want, we can have immediately. We don’t even need money—we can use a credit card. We don’t have to build anything—we can buy it. And we don’t have to go very far to get it.
The lack of interest in heaven is the other side of the preoccupation with this world. Heaven is virtually ignored by modern evangelicals. There is little preaching or teaching on the subject, but there are mammoth amounts of material available on prospering in this life. To pursue Christ with the same passion as Paul, we must focus on the world to come.

MacArthur, John

05/26/2026

Irritating or Attractive?
Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints.
—Psalm 97:10

Sometimes we Christians are opposed and persecuted for reasons other than our godliness. We like to think it is our spirituality that irritates people, when in reality, it may be our personality.
True, the spirit of this world is opposed to the Spirit of God; he that is born after the flesh will persecute him that is born of the Spirit. But even with all allowances, it is still true that some Christians get into trouble through their faults rather than through their likeness to the character of Christ. We may as well admit this and do something about it. No good can come from trying to hide our unpleasant and annoying dispositional traits behind a verse of Scripture.
It is one of the strange facts of life that gross sins are often less offensive and always more attractive than spiritual ones. The world can tolerate a drunkard or a glutton or a smiling braggart, but will turn in savage fury against the man of outwardly righteous life who is guilty of those refined sins, which he does not recognize as sins, but which may be more exceeding sinful than the sins of the flesh. WTA036

In the sanctified heart, the hatred of sin is supreme. DTC094

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

05/25/2026

Resolute Trust

SCRIPTURE READING: Hebrews 2:14–18
KEY VERSE: Isaiah 26:3

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

Stock markets rise and fall. Farm prices soar and plummet. Personal health peaks and dips.
Such is the nature of our unstable environment: ever changing, altering, moving, shifting. But believers have a firm anchor amid such fluctuations, a sure faith in an unchanging God who promises never to leave us helpless.
God is sovereign. God is always at work in every detail of our lives, using each setback and victory for His primary purpose: to glorify Himself by conforming us to Christ’s image. No event or person is outside the power and rule of God.
God is wise. His wisdom is yours as you humbly ask and expectantly receive. His Word and Spirit will light your path to fulfill His will for your life.
God is loving. Whatever comes, you are kept secure in the love of God. His love ensures He will provide for, guide, and sustain you. He tenderly cares for your innermost needs. Nothing can keep you outside His love.
Because God is sovereign, wise, and loving, you can trust Him without reservation. Resolute trust will quell your fears, calm your quivers, and stabilize your emotions. He holds you fast and will not let go.

Precious heavenly Father, You are an unchanging God who never leaves me helpless. You are sovereign and at work in every detail of my life. Use each setback and victory to accomplish Your purpose of conforming me to Christ’s image.

Stanley, Charles F.

05/22/2026

The Silent Dove
And, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.
—Matthew 3:16

God waits for your faith and your love, and He doesn’t ask whose interpretation of Scripture you have accepted. The New Testament tells of believers who met and prayed together, the strong taking the burdens of the weak, and all praying for those who had fallen. The place was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
“Pay no attention to that,” we have been told by “interpreters.” “That is not for us.” So it has been ruled out by interpretation, and the blessed Dove has been forced to fold His wings and be silent.
Our hearts tell us that these modern scribes who are long on interpretation are wrong in spirit. Our own longing souls tell us that the old saints and hymn writers and the devotional giants were right! ITB119–120

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all Thy Quickening powers;
Come shed abroad a Saviour’s love;
And that shall kindle ours. HCL140

Tozer, A. W., and Marilynne E. Foster

05/21/2026

A PASSIONATE TEMPTATION

SCRIPTURE READING:
Judges 16:1–22
KEY VERSE:
John 10:10

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Perhaps the most passionate, potent temptation of all is sexual allure. Even the strongest–willed men and women are overcome by its illicit attraction. Even the best marriages are destroyed by adulterous relationships.
One reason is the enormous emphasis our society places on sexuality. Sensuality permeates our entire culture, titillating us through television, magazines, books, and fashion.
S*xual temptation is also extremely pleasurable to contemplate. Here, more than anywhere else perhaps, Satan disguises his mischief as an angel of light, concealing its dark consequences.
But a more basic reason is the natural, God–given desire for physical relationships. S*x is God’s idea, but only within the bounds of marriage. Thus, Satan takes a legitimate desire for sexual fulfillment, seeking to twist and distort it, and deceives us through the illegitimate means of adultery, fornication, po*******hy, and other forms of sexual abuse.
The fierce struggle is to enjoy your sexuality as God intends while resisting Satan’s alluring but devastating temptation. Be thankful that God provides a way of escape.

Heavenly Father, keep me from sexual sins. You have provided a way of escape. Let me choose it. I want to conquer my sinful passions.

Stanley, Charles F.

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