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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 07 March, 2026 A.D.

"O visit me with Thy salvation." -Psalm 106:4 [KJV] There is no good obtained by paying trifling visits, and receiving trifling visitors. The soul that is alive to God, will refrain from such an impertinent way of sacrificing its time. “Christ hath redeemed us from our vain conversation”   (see I Peter 1:18.) Our grand business is, to be looking at, glorying in, and talking of His righteousness, and His salvation all the day long. This was David’s practice. If we followed it more, we too should say with him, “My lips shall greatly rejoice, and my soul which Thou hast redeemed”   (Psalm 71:23.) As our joy in Jesus increases, carnal, impertinent acquaintance will forsake us. Here is the cry of a convinced sinner, of a truly gracious heart, O visit me with Thy salvation . This is a blessed frame of soul. Lord help us to consider it, and animate us to live to Thee. Here is spiritual sight, and spiritual feeling. What is a Christian without these? Truly sunk int...
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Consider the LORD's Promises & His Faithfulness

"Because she judged Him faithful who had promised."   -Hebrews 11:11 [KJV] I admire what the Holy Ghost hath here recorded of Sarah's faith. After what we read of the weakness of her faith at first, in the history to which this refers, I cannot but rejoice in the recovery of the great mother in Israel, through grace; and read with very much pleasure, this honourable testimony, which the Holy Ghost Himself hath given of her. And I admire yet more, the grace and goodness of the Eternal Spirit, in causing it to be handed down to the church, among the list of such worthies, and desire to bless His holy name for this scripture. And while I bless God for the memorial, I pray Him to give me a spirit of wisdom, to improve it to my own furtherance in faith. The faith of Sarah, like that of her husband's, was the more illustrious, from the seeming impossibilities which lay in the way of the accomplishment of God's promise. For what the Lord engaged to do, was c...
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Deliver Us, O LORD JESUS!

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world."   -I John 2:15 [KJV] This is a very wide sentence. It stretches forth a hand of vast grasp. It places us, as it were, upon a high mountain, such as the Lord stood upon when tempted of Satan, and it says to us, "Look around you: now there is not one of these things which you must love."  It takes us, again, to the streets of a crowded city; it shews us shop windows filled with objects of beauty and ornament; it points us to all the wealth and grandeur of the rich and noble, and everything that the human heart admires and loves. And having thus set before us, as Satan did before our Lord upon the high mountain, the kingdoms of the world, it says, not as he did, "All this will I give you," but, "All this I take from you. None of these things are for you. You must not love one of these glittering baubles; you must not touch one of them, or scarcely look at them, lest, as with Ach...
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Great Encouragement in Christ JESUS ~ 06 March, 2026 A.D.

"And that He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again." -II Corinthians  5:15 [KJV] Christ died for all,  whom the Father gave to Him   (see John 17:9.) Sooner or later, all these willingly and cheerfully come unto, or believe on Christ. Joyful to remember, we are drawn to Christ by the love of the Father, or else we never should have come to Him (John 6:44.) Now, we have done with working for life, and asking, What must we do to be saved? For now, we actually are saved, and really do live. (1st.) We are saved from the love of sin, from our natural hatred to the doctrines of grace, and from our aversion to full justification and final salvation by the word of Christ only. Legal self-righteous professors exclaim, ‘Do not tell us of doctrines of grace, but of what we must do to be saved.’ Truly, the way is plain: there is work enough for them to do. If they will enter i...
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LET THE KING HEAR US WHEN WE CRY...

"She bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD ." -I Samuel 1:20 [KJV] It is really both blessed and profitable to observe, how holy men of old made memorandums of the Lord's kind dealings with them, as well in providence as grace, by way of preserving alive a due sense of divine mercies upon their souls. A night or two since, the evening portion remarked a beautiful instance of this sort in the case of Hagar: and in the scripture I have brought forth for our present meditation, is another, equally beautiful in the instance of Hannah. In the former, the memorial was set up to perpetuate the place of the Lord's graciousness; in this latter, the dedication is of the person concerning whom divine favour was shewn. But in both, the design is one and the same, to glorify God . I pause by the way, to-remark, how much to be lamented it is, that this truly scriptural and pious custom is so little followed by christians,...
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Delivered from Eternal Death

"Thou hast delivered my soul from death." -Psalm 56:13 [KJV] You may have been delivered from death, as much as David was, but not so fully in the assurance of the deliverance. God may have quickened your soul into life divine; He may have communicated His grace to your heart, and yet you have many doubts and fears whether it be a real work of grace upon your soul. It is not every child of God who has been delivered from death by regenerating grace who can use the words with the confidence expressed here: "Thou hast delivered my soul from death." But I will shew you when He can. When God is pleased to bless him with a sense of His pardoning love; when Jesus is revealed to his heart, and manifested with power to his soul; when the blood of sprinkling is applied to purge his conscience from guilt, filth, and dead works, to serve the living God; when the Spirit of adoption is given, and he is enabled to cry, "Abba, Father;"  when he can "r...
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Thought for the Day ~ 05 March, 2026 A.D.

"Happy it is for us that God hath taken upon Himself to gather and convert us to His Son. Unless He was the Gatherer, not one of us would ever be gathered.  Free-will never yet led a sinner to Christ; and never will, while the world remains.  We are free enough to depart from God and holiness; but we are not free and desirous to return to Him, and forsake our sins, and be conformed to Him in righteousness, until His grace makes us free in the day of His power upon our hearts.  Free-will has led millions and millions of souls to the place of torment, but it never lifted a single soul to heaven. All the sins that ever were committed were committed by free-will, but it is only the transforming grace of God that inspires and adorns us with the mind that was in Christ."   -preacher Augustus Toplady , ‘The Works of Toplady,’ p.427, Reprint 1853 verbatim of the first edition of his work (1794 A.D.)
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