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

"So did not I, because of the fear of God" -N EHEMIAH 5:15 [KJV] We can never praise God sufficiently for His restraining grace; for what should we be without it? What an unspeakable mercy, then, it is, that you cannot be what you would be, nor act as you would act, nor speak what you would speak, nor do the things you would do, because there is in you who fear God a spiritual principle which holds you up, and keeps you back from the ways of sin and death in which the flesh would walk. How this spirit of grace and godly fear kept Joseph in the hour of temptation! How it preserved David when he had Saul in his power as he lay asleep in the cave! How it kept Nehemiah in the fear of God from extortion and oppression [ see NEHEMIAH 5:1-15] ! And how, in thousands of instances, it has preserved the feet of the saints, and kept them from doing things that would have ruined their reputation, blighted their character, brought reproach upon the cause of God, and th

“ As a believer contemplates the mercy, compassion, and keeping power of God toward all that He has everlastingly loved in Christ…God the Father who chose them in Christ their Surety...God the Son who redeemed them at Calvary being made sin for them...and God the Holy Spirit who shall surely regenerate and keep them from falling, that believer willingly bows in adoration to Him who is omnipotent.” -Gospel report by preacher Marvin Stalnaker