"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"Come, see the place where the Lord lay."   - Matthew 28:6 [KJV] Lord, I would desire grace to accept the call, for it is always profitable to have faith in lively exercise: I would pray that my meditation might frequently take wing, and view the memorable sepulchre of my Lord. Did Jesus once lay in the grave? Surely death never had such a prisoner before! But did Jesus lay so low for me? Am I shortly to lay there? Sweet consoling thought! The grave is now softened, and the chambers of death are perfumed with the fragrancy contracted from His holy incorruptible body. But is there not another place where the Lord lay? And doth not the angel invite His people to see Him there also? Yes, Jesus lay in the bosom of the Father from all eternity. And doth He not lay there now, and will He not through all eternity? But can I see him there? Yes;—for if by faith I behold Jesus as the Christ, the Sent, the Sealed of the Father; in seeing Him, I see the Father also.  He sai...

"For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me." -Psalm 109:22 [KJV] The needy is a character who is not merely poor, empty, and naked before God, but who is feelingly in want of spiritual blessings applied to his soul. Some persons can rest on temptations, and take temptations as evidences. Others can build on doubts and fears, and rest on doubts and fears as evidences. Some can take powerful past convictions, or present convictions, and lean on them as evidences. Others can look to a profession of religion, and take that as an evidence.  But a living soul must have heavenly blessings communicated immediately to his heart and conscience from the mouth of God. He must have deliverance manifested to his soul as a reality; he must have the blood of Jesus sprinkled on his conscience with divine power, to purge it from filth and dead works; he must have his eyes anointed with eye-salve to see Jesus; yea, his soul pants to be led up into sweet communion ...

What a Magnificent Name , Part I by DG Miles McKee   The Lord Jesus Christ!  ---What a magnificent name.    When we call our Master the Lord, we are declaring He is the Sovereign.   When we call Him Jesus, we are declaring He is the Savior.   When we call Him Christ, we are declaring that He is the Sufficient One.   He is Sovereign, Savior and Sufficient. What a marvelous combination of saving power and wisdom.   To say that someone is ‘LORD’ is to admit that they are the one in charge.   Jesus continually demonstrated His Lordship and sovereignty over all things thus proving continually that He was and is God.     He was Lord over all nature and with a single word calmed a storm.     He demonstrated that He was Lord over death by raising the dead.   He demonstrated His sovereignty over Satan each time He cast out demons.   Sovereignty is God’s domain! Is it any wonder then that Jesus gave a continual demonstrati...

"Nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine."  -I Timothy 4:6 [KJV] Many a soul is saying, Alas! I hear and hear again, and do not see that I am profited. I obtain little or no comfort from what I hear.  Consider, (1st.) what you hear. Is it the words of faith, and of good doctrine? There is more danger in words than we are aware of. Words convey corrupt ideas to the mind, and nourish vain hopes and false confidences in the heart. They subvert the promises, and pervert the soul. Many words of this sort have obtained amongst us. Such as the merit of works—perhaps you start at that. You would not hear preachers who use the phrase. But these amount to just the same thing, the terms of the gospel—the conditions of salvation. These are not the words of faith, nor of good doctrine; not the words which the Holy Ghost teaches. They are the words of man’s proud wisdom.  They were hatched in the church of Rome, and are contended for by the greatest enemies...

"Whether our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ."   -II Corinthians 8:23 [KJV] What a blessed account is here given of the children of God to all inquiries concerning them. See, my soul, whether thy experience corresponds to it, and mark their character. They are not only brethren to one another, but to Christ also; for we are told that He is not ashamed to call them brethren . Precious condescending, Saviour! Moreover, they are the messengers of the churches. What is that? A messenger, in scripture, is called also an angel. And if the brethren of Jesus do know, and can speak of Him as His people should, then are they like angels come down from the court of heaven, to relate what they have seen and known, of the King in His beauty, and their hearts glow with a warmth of earnestness to proclaim His glory, and His love to poor sinful creatures here below.  Neither is this all. For they are the glory of Chri...

“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." -I John 1:9 [KJV] “He is faithful and just.”  Oh, what a word is that! There is scarcely to my mind such a word in the Bible as that; so great, so glorious, so comforting: “He is faithful and just.”  “Just” say you, “why I know that God’s mercy and God’s grace can pardon sinners; but how can God be just, and pardon transgressors? Does not God’s justice demand the punishment of sin? Does not God's justice blaze forth in eternal lightnings against the soul that transgresses His holy law? How, then, can it be true, that God can be just, and yet forgive a confessing sinner?" But it is true, divinely True, blessedly, eternally true. And in it is locked up that grand mystery of redemption by the blood and obedience of God's co-equal Son. It is locked up in this one word—"just." "But how?" it may be asked. In this way. The Lor...