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

" For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. " -Romans 5:10 [KJV] Notice the verse did not say that God made reconciliation possible by the death of His Son but that they were reconciled. And since this was done while they were yet enemies, it shows that their reconciliation to God had nothing to do with their will or faith or any actions on their part. -preacher Lucien LeSage, ‘ Reconciliation ’

"Is any thing too hard for the LORD?"   -Genesis 18:14 [KJV] A clergyman went to read prayers on a working-day. There was but one person in the church, beside himself and the clerk. On which he said to the clerk, As there is nobody else here, what signifies my reading prayers? Sir,  said the clerk, Is not God present? O  said the priest, I forgot God . Do not we too often the same? Is it not hence, that our minds are exercised with doubts, fears, and distress?  This question the Lord put to Sarah, when an unbecoming laugh of incredulity appeared, and this unbelieving speech dropt from her lips, “Shall I, of a surety, bear a child, who am old?”  O the longsuffering kindness, the condescending goodness of our Lord! He is Jesus the Saviour, for instead of striking her dead at His feet, for her contempt of His word, He mildly reasons with her. As though He had said, Sarah, look not at yourself. Consult not flesh and blood. Judge not according to nature...

"Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."   -Exodus 4:12 [KJV] My soul, pause over this sweet promise which the Lord gave to Moses; for surely the same is in effect said to every minister, every child of God, and every believer. He that made man's mouth, will give every thing suitable to the mouth, and proportion every thing to the necessity of His people. And do, my soul, remark the comprehensiveness of the promise.  Will not He who undertakes to be with the mouth, be also with all the renewed faculties of the soul? Jesus gives the tongue of the learned. Jesus gives grace to the lips, understanding to the heart, eyes to the blind, feet to the lame: the bread shall be given, and the water shall be sure, and the defence shall be the mountains of rocks. Go then, my soul, go wheresoever the Lord leads: for He saith, "Be not afraid, I am with thee, I am thy God." Learn, my soul; then to eye Jesus in all, and de...

"Even to Him shall men come."   -Isaiah 45:24 [KJV] The Lord has given an absolute promise that "In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory." And no less absolute is the addition, and as it were divine corollary to that promise, "To Him shall men come." And who gives them will and power to come? The Father Himself, according to the Lord's own words, "No man can come to Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him."   But will the Father draw all the chosen vessels of mercy to Jesus? Surely He will; for the Lord adds, "It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto Me"   (John 6:45) . Every act of faith whereby you look to Jesus is a coming. Every beam and ray of hope in His blood and righteousness is a coming. Every sigh, groan, or tear; every contrite feeling, every breathing desire of a ...