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

The Lord instructed Jeremiah to visit the potter’s house and there he learned that the Lord not only has the right to do what He wills with His own, but He exercises that right. "O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in Mine hand, O house of Israel" [JEREMIAH 18:6 ] . My friends, when the people of God encounter danger, difficulty, disease and death, there is no truth that will comfort the worried mind, soothe the troubled soul and calm the anxious heart as being assured that our Lord sovereignly controls all things . Now, if we give way to carnal reason and distrust, we will quickly be discouraged, dismayed and disheartened. The hymn writer said, "Blind unbelief is sure to err and scan His work in vain." Child of God, let us confront the question God asks, "Cannot I do with you as this potter?" Are we not His property? Are we not His children, His o

"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith ; Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." -H EBREWS 12:2 [KJV]

"He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." -P SALM 107:9 [KJV] We find the living family of God sometimes set forth under the character of the hungry. Let us see what they are hungering after. Is it pleasure, honour, promotion, respectability? O no; these toys and baubles cannot satisfy the spiritual hunger of a living soul. They cannot hunger after that on which they cannot feed. They hunger then after righteousness, as the Lord said: "Blessed are ye that hunger and thirst after righteousness." They hunger after God H imself in H is blessed manifestations; they hunger after the bread of life which came down from heaven, that a man should eat thereof and not die. […] But the presence of Christ in the soul can at once do all these things. Thus a hungry, famishing soul can only be pacified by Christ coming into his heart as the hope of glory. -Gospel report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)