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

"For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." -Isaiah 44:3 [KJV] Thirst, as a feeling of the soul, in a spiritual sense, is certainly indicative of divine life. It is as impossible, spiritually viewed, for a man dead in sin to thirst after a living God, as for a corpse in the graveyard to thirst after a draught of cold water from the well. I know for myself that such a feeling as thirsting after God had no place in my bosom until the Lord was pleased to quicken my soul into spiritual life.  I had heard of God by the hearing of the ear. I had seen Him in creation, in the starry sky, in the roaring sea, in the teeming earth; I had read of Him in the Bible; I had learnt His existence by education and tradition; and I had some apprehensions of His holiness in my natural conscience; but as to any spiritual thirsting after Him, any earnest desire to fear Him, know Him, believe in Him, or love Him,— no such experience or feeling, I can say for myself, ever dwelt in my bosom.  I...

Everything about this life is temporal. From the moment we are born into this world, we begin our journey toward the end. Along the way we experience many things. We grow and learn; we know happiness and sorrow. This is the life of the sons and daughters of Adam.  However, there are some who have a different experience. They are the ones chosen of God. They experience the same joys and sorrows as all men and women, yet they experience something greater—something eternal. They experience God. They experience life from the dead. They experience a new birth, the love of God shed abroad in their hearts.    They experience truth as they come to know and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. They experience faith, hope and love. The indwelling of the Holy Spirit. They look to the things above, where their treasure is. These are the things that are eternal.                      ...

In Thy great Name, O Lord, we come To worship at Thy feet; O, pour Thy Holy Spirit down, On all that now shall meet. We come to hear Jehovah speak, To hear the Saviour’s voice; Thy face and favor, Lord, we seek, Now make our hearts rejoice.  Teach us to pray, and praise, and hear, And understand Thy Word; To feel Thy gracious presence near, And trust our living Lord. This house with grace and glory fill, This congregation bless; Thy great salvation now reveal, Thy glorious righteousness.   -Gospel hymn, "Am I A Soldier?"  -------0------- "O sing unto the LORD a new song; for He hath done marvellous things: His right hand, and His holy arm, hath gotten Him the victory. The LORD hath made known His salvation: His righteousness hath He openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.  He hath remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God."   - Psalm 98:1-3 -------0------- " But one of the sold...

     The Hebrews had one general name for treasure and called it Ozer . The sweetest of all thoughts is that Jesus is the treasure of His people. JEHOVAH promised the church by Moses, that He would command the blessing upon Israel in his storehouses, and in all that he would set his hand unto. And when the Holy Ghost explains this to the soul of the redeemed, and they see that this is emphatically the blessing; then, and not before, they enter into an apprehension of the sense of the covenant promise.  Hence, Jesus speaking under the character of Wisdom-Mediator, saith, "That I may cause those that love Me to inherit substance, and I will fill their treasures." Where Jesus is, there is treasure, yea durable riches and righteousness. But where Jesus is not, nothing, be it what it may, can be called treasure.  —preacher Robert Hawker

"There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1) .  The freedom of the believer is just what it is declared to be— entire exemption from condemnation . From all which that word of significant import implies, he is, by his relation to Christ, delivered . Sin does not condemn him, the law does not condemn him, the curse does not condemn him, hell does not condemn him, God does not condemn him. He is under no power from these, beneath whose accumulated and tremendous woe all others wither. A brief and simple argument will establish this fact.  The pardon of sin necessarily includes the negation of its condemnatory power. There being no sin legally alleged, there can be no condemnation justly pronounced. Now, by the sacrifice of Christ all the sins of the Church are entirely put away. He, the sinless Lamb of God, took them up and bore them away into a land of oblivion, where even the Divine mind fails to recall them. "How forcible ar...

"I know that my Redeemer liveth."   -Job 19:25 [KJV]   Matters are sometimes brought to a close point between God and the soul. It is stript of all its comforts. The soul is in heaviness (I Peter 1:6.) It is broken in the place of dragons, and covered with the shadow of death, as the Psalmist most emphatically paints the scenes of horror and affliction (Psalm 44:19.) So that he says, “I had fainted, unless I had believed” (Psalm 27:13.) Nothing within, nothing without, for the soul to stay itself upon, but the word of the Lord, and the Lord revealed in the word. Then is that sweet promise fulfilled. “They shall hang upon Him all the glory of His Father’s house , ” (Isaiah 22:24.) This was Job’s tried, tempted, afflicted, yet blessed state.    Though all his comforts were dead, still his Redeemer lived. In the midst of all his losses, he had not lost this blessed knowledge. I know, it is a matter of the greatest certainty to my soul, I am as sure of it as my exis...