Faith & Guidance

It gathers books on trusting God for daily bread, direction, and every promise — the life of walking by faith and not by sight. Its keynote is Proverbs 3:6, "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths": the shelf's burden is that the God who guides is to be trusted for the next step and the daily need alike, and that faith is the settled posture of the whole life, not an occasional act.

Among them are F. B. Meyer's "The Secret of Guidance," George Müller's "The Life of Trust," A. B. Simpson's "Days of Heaven Upon Earth," Spurgeon's "Morning by Morning" and "Evening by Evening," F. B. Meyer's "Our Daily Walk," and Andrew Murray's "Waiting on God" — daily readings and treatises alike on the trusting, guided life.

That God guides those who acknowledge Him in all their ways, and that His leading is found less in signs than in a heart kept near and obedient. F. B. Meyer's "The Secret of Guidance" is the shelf's fullest treatment: God's facts laid like a foundation, faith resting on them, and feelings following in God's own time — the temper of trust rather than a technique for extracting instructions.

"The Life of Trust" is the record of a man who ran orphanages for thousands of children without ever asking a human being for money — praying in the day's needs and writing down how God met them, again and again, often at the last hour. It is the shelf's great case study in trusting God for daily bread, and it shaped later missionaries who staked their own work on the same God.

Spurgeon's "Morning by Morning" and "Evening by Evening," A. B. Simpson's "Days of Heaven Upon Earth," and F. B. Meyer's "Our Daily Walk" are devotional companions built for a portion each day — short, Scripture-anchored readings meant to feed the trusting life through the ordinary rhythm of morning and evening rather than in a single sitting.

"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths" is the promise under the whole collection — that guidance is bound to trust, and that the believer's part is to acknowledge God in everything, leaving the directing to Him. It ties the books of daily devotion to the books of faith as one life: acknowledging God each day, and being led.

F. B. Meyer's "The Secret of Guidance" is the natural starting point for anyone anxious about God's will; George Müller's "The Life of Trust" builds confidence that God provides; and Spurgeon's "Morning by Morning" offers a daily companion to keep the heart near. Together they teach both the doctrine and the daily practice of walking by faith.

Because anxiety about provision and direction is perennial, and these writers answer it not with a formula but with a God who can be trusted for the next step. Tested in orphanages and mission fields and ordinary parishes, they press one counsel on the worried: acknowledge God in all your ways, rest on His promises, and let Him direct your paths.