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

“ Yea, all kings shall fall down before Him: all nations shall serve Him. For He shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in His sight.” -PSALM 72:11-14 [KJV]

I admire what the Apostle saith of giving thanks to the Father, both for His original choice of the Church to an inheritance in and with Christ; and for the translation of the Church as children of His adoption from the power of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son. Depend upon it, the beginnings of the triumphs of faith are found in these things. For, though by regeneration, our eyes are opened to see and feel sin; and the first joy of the newly awakened soul is the consciousness, when we are delivered, from darkness to light by Christ; yea, when God the Spirit hath brought us on to see further, and that it was God the Father who by His original choice of the Church in Christ made us meet to be partakers of an inheritance of the saints in light; here we trace our mercies to the fountain-head, and we cry out with the Apostle: “Thanks be unto God, who always causeth us to triumph in Christ” [II CORINTHIANS 2:19 ] . -Gospel report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753

“ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities” - PSALM 103:2- 3a [KJV]   Every time I read this Psalm, I must stop in wonder at the very first of God’s benefits mentioned, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities.” There are many blessings mentioned afterward, but none can rival the glory and sheer wonder of this first one. That He should be willing to forgive my ‘smaller offenses’ is a wonder; or that He should be willing to forgive an offense once or twice. But that He would, yea, does forgive all my iniquities each and every time they appear is more than this poor sinner can grasp. He has not dealt with me according to my transgressions, nor shall He ever. He has removed my transgressions as far from me as the east is from the west. Having withdrawn the frowning face of a Judge, He has shown me the merciful face of a loving Father. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all the redeemed of the Lord, bless His holy nam

"And thou shalt remember all the way which the L ORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep H is commandments, or no." -DEUTERONOMY 8:2 [KJV] When you look back upon the way the Lord has led you these many years in the wilderness, can you not see how circumstance after circumstance, and event after event arose, to prove what was in you; whether godly fear, whether simplicity and sincerity, whether a desire to fear God, whether a dread to offend Him, whether the life and power of vital godliness, or whether little else than an empty profession without the life-giving power of God in the soul? What a mercy for you to be able to look back and see how the Lord appeared for you, when without Him you must have sunk; when you can feel, to your soul's comfort, that the Lord did uphold you in the trying hour, did appear for you in distressing circu