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

"Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God ." -P HILIPPIANS 4:6 [KJV]   What a word this is! "Everything!" You are privileged, saint of God, to go to the throne of God with everything. What, with every little occurrence? Yes. What, with things that people call trifles? Yes. With your daily concerns? Yes. If you feel that there is a God who can hear you, it is your privilege to go to Him in everything. All things are comprehended; nothing is excluded. In everything, and that by prayer and supplication. Sometimes we pray, sometimes we supplicate. Prayer is something more gentle than supplication, less earnest, less fervent, less powerful; yet not less effectual. I have sometimes compared prayer and supplication to two things in nature. The one to a river—a stream, such as we see in our low country that flows with gentle course to the sea; the other to the torrents ...

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (15-17NOV19) Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace - God's unmerited favor - from their sins and from Hell: THE GREATEST TRUTH OF ALL Child of God, do you see yourself as a poor, pitiful, and sinful creature? Does the Holy Spirit Who resides within you continually convict you of your sins and lack of perfection? Imagine how it would be if all of your sins were recorded in God’s law-books to be held against you in the day of Judgment! As the psalmist wrote, “If Thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?” [PSALM 130:3 ] . Certainly none of us would pass this test. But the psalmist goes on to write, “But there is forgiveness with Thee, that Thou mayest be feared” [PSALM 130:4 ] . How is this possible when we know that God is holy and must puni...