“Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23 KJV). The tempted one needs to understand the true force of the will. This is the governing power in the nature of man—the power of decision, of choice. Everything depends on the right action of the will.Continue reading “The Power of Choice”
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Your God-Given Power
“Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19 KJV). Like the twelve apostles, the seventy disciples whom Christ sent forth later received supernatural endowments as a seal of their mission. When their workContinue reading “Your God-Given Power”
Superstitious Belief Hinders Healing
“Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.” John 5:2, 3. MH 81.1 At certain seasons the waters of this pool were agitated,Continue reading “Superstitious Belief Hinders Healing”
The Lockdown
When Even Kings Fled “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean” (Matthew 8:2 KJV). Of all the diseases known in the East the leprosy was most dreaded. Its incurable and contagious character, and its horrible effect upon its victims, filled the bravest with fear. Among the Jews it was regarded as a judgmentContinue reading “The Lockdown”
One Touch
“If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole.” Matthew 9:21. It was a poor woman who spoke these words—a woman who for twelve years had suffered from a disease that made her life a burden. She had spent all her means upon physicians and remedies, only to be pronounced incurable. But asContinue reading “One Touch”
When Fragments Are Enough
“And looking up to heaven, He blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full” (Matthew 14:19, 20 KJV). It was by a miracle of divine power thatContinue reading “When Fragments Are Enough”
Affliction: Purifying Fire
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10 KJV). Many who sincerely consecrate their lives to God’s service are surprised and disappointed to find themselves, as never before, confronted by obstacles and beset by trials and perplexities. They pray for Christlikeness of character,Continue reading “Affliction: Purifying Fire”