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

"...and continued all night in prayer to God." -Luke 6:12 [KJV]   My soul! contemplate thy Lord in the view here represented of Him. "Jesus continued all night in prayer to God." But did Christ need to use prayer? Yes, as Christ, the sent, the anointed, the servant of Jehovah, when He voluntarily stood up as the Surety of His people, at the call of God the Father. But as God, "one with the Father, over all, God blessed for ever , "  He prayed not; for all divine perfections were His in common with the Father and the Holy Spirit, eternally, essentially, and underived.   But, my soul, as thy representative, Jesus needed the use of prayer, and hath both endeared it, and recommended it by His bright example. And observe the fervency and earnestness of His prayers, by the length of time. For whereas one short hour is found long by thee, (yea, sometimes in that hour, what coldness and deadness creep in!) thy Redeemer "continued all night in ...

"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform." -Romans 4:20, 21 [KJV]   This, then, was Abraham's faith. It was a firm credence in the promise of God made to him, and yet a faith that lived under opposition, hoping against hope, and being fully persuaded that what God had promised He would perform. Our faith, then, if it be genuine, must resemble that of Abraham. It must anchor in the truth of God as made life and spirit to our soul. It must meet with every opposition from without and within; from sin, Satan, and the world; from nature and flesh and reason all combined against it. But in spite of all, it must hope against hope, and be fully persuaded that what God has promised He is able to perform; and thus by perseverance and patient waiting obtain the victory.    Take another example, that of Moses: his faith was of...

Ref: Luke 6:21 Sermon length of 39 minutes, from preacher Clay Curtis.  The LORD JESUS be magnified!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcZaFHJyrIE  

"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." -Romans 10:17 [KJV]  Note:   In this powerful Bible teaching from Hebrews chapters 5 and 6, we explore one of the most challenging and important passages in Scripture: spiritual maturity and the danger of remaining spiritually immature. Why are believers called to move beyond the “milk” of the Word and grow into deeper truths? What does it mean to be “dull of hearing”? And can a true Christian actually fall away? Gospel message by preacher Henry Mahan. 47 minutes in length. The LORD JESUS be magnified!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpf-jaIrgDQ

"With His stripes we are healed."   - Isaiah 53:5 [KJV]   A great professor once said to me, “I can never conceive how one man can be made righteous, by the righteousness of another.” Thus his carnal reason led him to object against Christ’s righteousness being imputed to us. I replied, "Why then do you profess to believe, that your sins can be washed away by the blood of another?" He was silent. “Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness.” Too great a mystery for human reason to comprehend: but not too great for divine faith to receive, to the joy of godliness.    Sin is a malignant and mortal disease. The soul must die eternally of it, unless healed. This healing the soul, is the pardoning of sin. This is obtained by the stripes of Christ. You feel the evil of sin; you mourn over the guilt of sin; you groan under the burden of indwelling sin, from day to day. The Spirit of truth, the Comforter, here holds forth a blessed remedy for you...

"The eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD." -Zechariah 9:1 [KJV]   Precious Jesus! when shall this blessed scripture be accomplished? "The eyes of man!" What man? Surely as the church's glorious Head, and as her glorious representative, the eyes of our Lord Jesus Himself were always from everlasting directed to Jehovah His Father. But secondarily, and subordinately, the eyes of thy redeemed, blessed Jesus, the eyes of man, the eyes of every man, must ultimately, as the tribes of Israel, be all toward Thee for salvation. Thou indeed hast said, "Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else , " Isaiah 45:22.   Pause, my soul! this evening, over this view of thy Jesus, for it is a very blessed one, and see what improvements under divine teaching, thou canst draw from it. It is said, that as one of the tribes, yea, all the tribes of Israel, every eye shall be...