Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer...

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.

There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.