J. Sidlow Baxter

I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular daily unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.__ote the __ Am._ In the Greek it is the strongest possible form of expression _ Ego Eimi. Both ego and eimi mean __ am_ but the former puts the emphasis on the ___ while the latter puts it on the __m._ Taken together they are the strongest Greek form to express the name of God as the great __ AM._ That is how the risen Christ here refers to Himself. __o, I AM with you!_ But there is a lovely feature in the Greek construction here which does not reveal itself in our English translation. It reads like this:__nd lo, I with you AM__ou and I dear fellow believer, are in between the ___ and the __M._ He is not only with us, He is all around us. Not only now and then, but __lways_ which literally translated is, __ll the days_ _ this day, this hour, this moment. Why, when we reflect on it, were not our Lord__ sudden appearings & disappearings during the 40 days between His resurrection and His ascension meant to teach those early disciples (and ourselves) this very thing, that even when He is invisible He is none the less present, hearing, watching, knowing, sympathizing, overruling? Let us never forget that the special promise of His presence is given in connection with our going forth as winners of others to Him.