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

The wisdom of God therefore shines most gloriously in permitting Satan to bruise the heel of Christ; and the same wisdom will also overrule all the displays of his malice toward His Church. The gates of hell shall not prevail against it. He permits the enemy to put forth his mightiest efforts as against the saints; but He lives to redeem their souls from both “deceit and violence; and precious shall their blood be” in the sight of Him who shed His blood for them. His efforts are those of a conquered foe. All persecutions aimed by Satan against the Church have contributed to the spread and furtherance of the Gospel. And all his attacks upon individual believers are overruled to their profit and prosperity. We thereby learn our own weakness, and are driven to the Strong for strength. We discover our own foolishness, and are led to the Wise for wisdom. “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.” There are times when the life of God in

"Turn T hou us unto T hee, O L ORD , and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old." -L AMENTATIONS 5:21 [KJV] If we do not wish to deceive ourselves, if God has made us honest, if He has planted His fear in our hearts, if He has begun and is carrying on a good work in us, there will be evidences of the existence of the life of God within. Life is the commencement of salvation as an inward reality; for whatever the eternal purposes of God are, or whatever standing the vessel of mercy has in Christ previous to effectual calling, there is no more movement in the soul Godward till life is imparted, than there is natural life and motion in a breathless corpse that lies interred in the churchyard. But wherever divine life is implanted there will be certain fruits and feelings that spring out of this life. One fruit will be complaint , and this will arise sometimes from a feeling of the burden of sin, and at others from a sense of merited chastisement from Go

“ It takes a miraculous, powerful, and even invincible work of the Holy Spirit to convince self-righteous sinners such as we are that our works and efforts to obey God, even our efforts to follow Christ, do not make us holy or righteous before God . Good works are the fruit of the life, power, and grace of God given us in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, but good works do not make us good. Tears of repentance and sorrow are the workings of Christ in the hearts of His people, but these tears do not and cannot wash away or cleanse us from our sins. It is the blood of Jesus Christ alone that cleanses us from ALL sin and makes us righteous in God’s sight . As we endeavor to worship the Lord with our songs, our prayers, our messages, let us remember that the only way God can and will accept us or our efforts is through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ alone.” Gospel report by preacher Bill Parker Eager Avenue Grace church of Albany, Georgia USA Please find Au