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06/23/2026

If I Miss …
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
—John 14:2

If I miss the love and the mercy and the grace of God in this life, who is to be blamed? Certainly not the God who sits on the throne. He made full provision for my salvation. Certainly not the Lamb who stands before the throne. He died for my sins and rose again for my justification. Certainly not the radiant, flaming Holy Spirit who has accosted men and women all over the world, mediating to them the saving gospel of Christ.
Hear the words John heard on the rocky Patmos as the Revelation of Jesus Christ concluded:

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.… Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.… And the Spirit and the bride say, Come.… And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:12, 14, 17)

If I miss God’s great salvation, has this life been worth the struggle? Personally, I think not! JIV076

[I]f we go to heaven, it is because we have a nature that belongs there. EFE103

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

06/22/2026

Dealing with Immorality
Scripture reading: 1 Corinthians 4:1–7
Key verse: Romans 6:11
You also reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
A pilot flying through a massive thunderstorm, where the horizon is obscured, may experience a sensation known as vertigo. Though he is upside down, he feels as if he is flying upright. Correction depends upon his reliance on his instruments, which indicate otherwise.
Similarly, while we may not feel dead to sin (specifically immorality), the Word of God says we are, and His Word is always accurate, even in the midst of storms of passion. This is what the Scriptures refer to as “reckoning,” counting a fact true apart from any emotion or affection. That is why we are called to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God (Rom. 6:11).
Successfully handling immorality begins with reckoning yourself dead to its power, but you must continue by reckoning yourself alive to Christ. You put on this new man, this new identity, by faith in God’s Word.
For sexual immorality, the Scripture says, “God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness” (1 Thess. 4:7). For unethical conduct, the Scripture says we should desire “to live honorably” (Heb. 13:18). You deal with immorality by understanding your new holy nature in Christ and appropriating its transforming truth.
Dear Lord, help me die to sin and come alive to You and Your Word. Let me understand and appropriate the truth of my new nature.

Stanley, Charles F.

06/20/2026

Our Wills Must Surrender
His servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness. (Romans 6:16)

The Christian doctrine of obedience to God and His will is now largely neglected in modern religious circles, and many in our own congregations seem to feel that our obligation to obey has been discharged by believing in Jesus Christ at the beginning of our Christian lives.
We need to remember that “the will is the seat of true religion in the soul.” Nothing genuine has been done in a man's or woman’s life until his or her will has been surrendered in active obedience. It was disobedience that brought about the ruin of the race. It is the obedience of faith that brings us back again into the divine favor!
It needs to be said that a world of confusion results from trying to believe without obeying!
A mere passive surrender may be no surrender at all. Any real submission to the will of God must include a willingness to take orders from Him from that time on.
I keep wondering whether the Lord’s ministers will again give to obedience the place of prominence it occupies in the Scriptures.

Tozer, A. W., and Gerald B. Smith

06/19/2026

Anything you Need
Put on the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.
—Ephesians 4:24

God holds no mental reservations about any of us when we become His children by faith. When He forgives us, He trusts us as though we had never sinned. When Satan comes around to taunt me about my past sins, I remind him that everything that had been charged against me came from him, and now everything I have—forgiveness and peace and freedom—I have freely received from my Lord Jesus Christ!
As long as you remain on this earth, God has not completed His work in you. The Spirit of God will help you discern when the chastening hand of God is upon you. But if it is the devil trying to tamper with your Christian life and testimony, dare to resist him in the victorious power of the living Christ.…
He has said to us, “Whatever your need, just come to the throne of grace. Anything you need, you may have!” Why not believe Him and exercise the dominion He has given you? JIV049–050

[W]e are compared with what we could be, not just what we should be.…[A]ything we ought to be we can be. Anything that God has declared that we should be, we can be. RRR019

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

06/18/2026

Praying in a Crisis

Scripture Reading: James 5:13–18
Key Verse: James 5:13
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms.

During the Persian Gulf War, prayer made a comeback in mainstream America. Commentators regularly mentioned prayer. The president prayed for our troops. But some of the most intense prayers arose from the hot sands of the Arabian desert.
“Praying makes me feel better, makes me a little more secure,” said one army lieutenant who skipped a card game to attend a worship service. An army staff sergeant commented, “I have always prayed, but I need it now more than ever.”
Adversity motivates people to pray. Crises quickly filter the trivial and expose the essential. In the midst of crises, we must remember several crucial truths.

We must be rightly related to the God we petition. The nonbeliever may pray, but until he places his faith in Christ, his pleas are in vain. God desires to bring all men to saving faith, but He is not obligated to respond to the nonbeliever’s prayers.

Another important principle is that while prayer moves God to act on man’s behalf, it does not guarantee preferred answers. We cannot manipulate God. But crises turn us toward Him for His sovereign answers, the most critical of which is His provision for our sins through faith in Jesus Christ. We then ask in His name and trust Him for the outcome.

Heavenly Father, thank You for the privilege of prayer—that I can ask for Your provision and trust You for the outcome. In the face of every crisis, let me flee to You.

Stanley, Charles F.

06/17/2026

Discharging Our Obligation
… Walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
—Ephesians 5:8–10

I have to be faithful to what I know to be true, so I must tell you that if you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week.…
Too many of us try to discharge our obligations to God Almighty in a single day, usually with one trip to church. Sometimes, nobly, we make it two trips to church, but it’s all on the same day when we have nothing else to do—and that’s supposed to be worship. I grant you, sir, that it can be true worship, provided that on Monday and Tuesday and the other days you also experience the blessings of true worship.
I do not say that you must be at church all of the time—how could you be?
You can worship God at your desk, on an elevated train, or driving in traffic. You can worship God washing dishes or ironing clothes.… You can worship God in whatever is legitimate and right and good.…
So that’s all right. We can go to church and worship. But if we go to church and worship one day, it is not true worship unless it is followed by continuing worship in the days that follow. TTPI, Book 1/051–052

Father, I pray that You might give me a sense of Your presence wherever I am, in whatever I’m doing. Direct my heart to worship You throughout the day. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

06/16/2026

From Inquire to Desire
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
—Psalm 1:6

It is not enough to inquire about the power of the crucified life and the Spirit-filled life. It is not enough to want it—it must be desired and claimed above everything else. There must be an abandonment to Jesus Christ to realize it. The individual must want the fullness of Christ with such desire that he will turn his back on whatever else matters in his life and walk straight to the arms of Jesus!
So much for the case of the rich young ruler. His veil was taken away, and he turned from Jesus Christ. He was still the hypocrite, still a covetous man, a money-lover, a breaker of the law. Above all, he was still a sinner and Christless.
He had to pay a great price to keep what he loved most.… We have no idea, in terms of money, land, and possessions, what the rich young ruler paid for his refusal to follow Jesus. WPJ071

The secret of a Christlike life lies partly in the deep longing for it. We grow like the ideals that we admire. We unconsciously reach, at last, the things we aspire to. Ask God to give you a high conception of the character of Christ and an intense desire to be like Him, and you will never rest until you reach your ideal. CTBC, Vol. 6/338–339

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

06/13/2026

Depend on God’s Word

My tongue shall speak of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteousness.
Psalm 119:172

The person who doesn’t trust the accuracy and truthfulness of God’s Word is a person who has no foundation for finding, receiving, or accepting God’s offer of peace. Without the Bible, there is no basis on which to trust God, receive God’s forgiveness, or know with certainty what is right and wrong.
There’s no foundation for a genuine understanding of how to develop an ongoing relationship with God or a peaceful fellowship with others, apart from His word.

Stanley, Charles F.

06/12/2026

The Importance of Truth

Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.

Ephesians 4:25

Why is it so important to tell the truth? Because we are members of one another. When we don’t speak the truth with each other, we harm our fellowship. For example, what would happen if your brain told you that cold was hot and hot was cold? When you took a shower, you’d either freeze to death or scald yourself! If your eye decided to send false signals to your brain, a dangerous curve in the highway might appear straight, and you would crash. You depend on the honesty of your nervous system and of every organ in your body.
The Body of Christ can’t function with any less than that. We cannot shade the truth with others and expect the church to function properly. How can we minister to each other, bear each other’s burdens, care for each other, love each other, build up each other, teach each other, and pray for each other if we do not know what is going on in each other’s lives? So be honest, “speaking the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15).

MacArthur, John

06/11/2026

Believe the Right Things

You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins.
—JOHN 8:23–24

Because the heart of the Christian life is admittedly faith in a person, Jesus Christ the Lord, it has been relatively easy for some to press this truth out of all proportion and teach that faith in the person of Christ is all that matters. Who Jesus is matters not, who His Father was, whether Jesus is God or man or both, whether or not He accepted the superstitions and errors of His time as true, whether He actually rose again after His passion or was only thought to have done so by His devoted followers—these things are not important, say the no-creed advocates. What is vital is that we believe on Him and try to follow His teachings.
What is overlooked here is that Christ's conflict with the Pharisees was over the question of who He was. His claim to be God stirred the Pharisees to fury. He could have cooled the fire of their anger by backing away from His claim to equality with God, but He refused to do it. And He further taught that faith in Him embraced a belief that He is very God, and that apart from this there could be no salvation for anyone….
To believe on Christ savingly means to believe the right things about Christ. There is no escaping this. TIC015-016

Jesus, don’t let me ever back down from this vital truth of Who You are. Amen.

Tozer, A. W.

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