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

“ He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things ?” -ROMANS 8:32 [KJV] Look at the cross! Behold His precious Gift transfixed to it, and that by His own hand, and for your sins. Then look at your present circumstances, survey . . .your needs, your trials, your chastisements, your bereavements, your heart sickening, heartbreaking tribulations, and know that God still is love. If He had love strong enough, deep enough, to give you Jesus; to tear Him, as it were, from His bosom, and to transfix Him on yonder accursed tree for your iniquities; has He not love enough to bow His ear to your cry, and His heart to your sorrow? Will He not . . . rescue you from this difficulty, deliver you out of this trouble, shield you in this temptation, supply this need, support and comfort you in this grief? Oh yes, He will! doubt it not! The cross of Calvary is a standing pledge; standing until sin ...

“ Be Not Dismayed; For I Am Thy God .”   -ISAIAH 41:10 [KJV] Poor fearful saint, be not dismayed, Nor dread the dangers of the night; Thy God will ever be thy aid, And put the hosts of hell to flight. * Nor sin, nor Satan, can o'ercome The arm that vindicates thy cause; God, thy own God, will lead you home, In spite of all that may oppose. * In every sore and deep distress, “I am thy God” shall be thy stay; Thy God shall all thy woes redress, And drive thy guilty fears away. * This soul-supporting truth contains All blessings that our God can give; In sorrows, sicknesses, or pains, Thy God will every need relieve. Author: William Gadsby Tune: Just as I am (Wm. Bradbury)

"As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing." - II CORINTHIANS 6:10 [KJV] Though the Christian in himself is sorrowful, and has reason to be so all the day long, yet so far as he has any views by faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, any good hope through grace, or any manifestation of His Person, work, blood, and love, he may be always rejoicing. Nay, his very sorrow opens up a way for joy. There is no room in a worldly heart for spiritual joy, for the Lord gives joy in sorrow. When the heart is sunk in gloom and fear, and doubt and distress take possession of the mind, when family afflictions, or painful bereavements, or trying circumstances fill the heart with grief and dismay, that is the very time for the Lord to pour joy into the soul. As afflictions abound, so do consolations. Sorrow and joy are linked together as night and day, as sun and moon, as heaven and earth. Without sorrow there can be no joy, for joy is its counterpoise. If you had everything your...