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

"Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and W ho it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of H im, and H e would have given thee living water." -John 4:10 [KJV] How blessed a thing is vital godliness! That is the thing I always wish to contend for. Not for forms and ceremonies, or doctrines floating in the brain, but for the life of God in the soul; the only thing worth knowing; the only thing to live by, and I am sure the only thing to die by . How different is vital godliness received into the heart and conscience, by the operation of God the Spirit, out of the fulness of Christ, how different is this fountain of living water from the stagnant, dead water of lip-service, formality, and hypocrisy! And sure I am, if our souls have ever been baptised into a spiritual knowledge of this heavenly secret; if ever we have tasted the sweetness, felt the power, and experienced a measure of the enjoyment of vital godli...

“ Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the    mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.” -Jude 1:21 “ Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our faith” -Hebrews 12:2a “ How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is, and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith, or to increase our faith, but a looking off to the Faithful One seems all we need; a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and for eternity. It does not appear to me as anything new, only formerly misapprehended.” -copied