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

"And what is the exceeding greatness of H is power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of H is mighty power, which H e wrought in Christ, when H e raised H im from the dead, and set H im at H is own right hand in the heavenly places." -Ephesians 1:19-20 [KJV] It is no great mystery that the Son of God should be exalted to the throne of power. It is but a step from the bosom of the Father to His right hand. But that one in our nature should be exalted to that seat of pre-eminence and power; that the Mediator between God and man should be the man Christ Jesus ; that the hands which once were nailed to the cross should now hold the sceptre, and that the feet which once walked on Lake Gennesaret, which were weary and dust-soiled at Jacob's well, which were washed with a sinful woman's tears and kissed in penitential grief and love with polluted lips—that these very feet should now have all things put under them both in heaven and earth , there is

"The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth." - Psalm 34:15-16 [KJV] STONY HEARTS Since all men by nature have stony hearts, all the threatenings in the world will do no good. The stony heart of natural man must be pierced by the POWER OF GOD in order to be tender! One with a tender heart desires to know the will of God, has a readiness for spiritual things, has a disposition to obey revealed truth and has a desire to make the things of God his chief business. – preacher Scott Richardson THE LORDSHIP OF CHRIST Rolfe Barnard made an interesting observation many years ago. "Sixteen hundred years ago the church was adopted by Rome. Millions of pagans flooded its membership; and they brought with them their pagan culture, tradition and faith. It took that ‘successful church’ a thousand years to rec