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

" Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand in the evil day, and having done all to stand." -Ephesians 6:13 [KJV] St. Paul was an experienced veteran in the camp of Christ. He had been in many campaigns: fought many battles under the Captain of his salvation, against the combined enemies, the world, the flesh, and the devil. He warns his fellow soldiers of their foes and dangers, by exhorting them to take, and put on, nothing less than the whole armour of God.  The very same armour, which he himself fought in, is provided for us also. Blessed be God for that. So sure as Paul fought his way through, and safely arrived in glory, so shall we also, in this armour of God. O Christian, consider, this is not an armour of flesh and blood—not what is natural to man, or is in the power of man to provide for himself; but the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of the whole earth, hath provided it for all Christ’s soldiers.  What is this...

"The hind of the morning."  -Psalm 22 in the title to the chief Musician. Ref: Strong's Concordance for "Aijeleth" (H365) and "Shahar" (H7837) The dying patriarch Jacob, under the influence of the prophetic spirit, pointed to the seed of Naphtali as a hind (- deer ) let loose. But it is the church which points to Jesus as the hind of the morning; for He is, indeed, the loving hind, and the pleasant roe. It is sweet and profitable to observe in what a variety of methods the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to give sketches of Jesus.  My soul, look at Jesus for thy present meditation as the hind of the morning. Was He not, from the very morning of eternity, marked under this lovely character? Did not the church speak of Him, and desire His appearance, under this same character, when she begged of Him, that until the shadows of Jewish ordinances were passed away, and the day of gospel light should break in upon her, that her beloved would be li...