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

Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands (06-08DEC19) 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: " If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself" [JOHN 14:3 ] . By His work of redemption and by His presence at the Father’s right hand, our Savior has earned and taken occupancy of everlasting glory for all His chosen people. In addition, He who has prepared the place has prepared the route to the place. The pathway of every believer may appear to us to have no order or arrangement, but we are assured, "the steps of a good man are ordered of the L ORD " [PSALM 37:23 ] . He who chose us in covenant love and redeemed us with His own precious blood will direct our way through this world and bri...

"O L ORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. " -P SALM 84:12 [KJV]   Trust in God implies total self-renunciation. The moment that I trust in myself, I cease to trust in God. The moment I take any portion of my confidence away from the Lord and put a grain of it in myself, that moment I take away all my trust in God. My trust in God must be all or nothing. It must be unreserved and complete, or else it is false and delusive. Is not the Lord worthy to be trusted? And if He is worthy to be trusted at all, is He not worthy to be trusted with all? What real confidence could a man have in the wife of his bosom if he could trust her with one key, but not with all? Is that full confidence? So, if we can trust God for one thing and not for all, it shews that we have no real trust in Him. A man has no real trust in his wife who cannot give her all the keys. A man has no real trust in God who cannot give Him all his heart, and put everything into Hi...

Thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God [ P SALM 40:17 ] . The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in His way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with His hand [ P SALM 37:23-24 ] . In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and His children shall have a place of refuge [PROVERBS 14:26 ] . Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass; and forgettest the LORD thy maker? [ I SAIAH 51:12-13 ] . I AM with thee to deliver thee [JEREMIAH 1:8 ] . Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee [ D EUTERONOMY 31:6 ] . I will sing of Thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of Thy mercy in the morning: for Thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble [ P SALM 59:16 ] . Thou art my ...