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

Give Me Christ, Whatsoever He Cost When a man is soundly killed to all his sins, to all his righteousness, to all his comforts whatsoever; and sees that there is no way but the devil must have him, but he must be damned in hell, if he be not clothed with Jesus Christ; ‘O! Then, (says he) give me Christ on any terms, whatsoever H e cost; though H e cost me friends, though H e cost me comforts, though H e cost me all that ever I have!’ Like the wise merchant in the Gospel, they will sell all to get that pearl (Matthew 13:46) . I tell you, when a soul is brought to see its want of Christ aright, it will not be kept back; father, mother, husband, wife, lands, livings, nay life and all shall go, rather than the soul will miss of Christ. Ay, and the soul counts Christ a cheap Saviour, if it can get Him upon any terms. Now the soul indents no longer (as a man bargains for the terms of his impending servitude). ‘Now, Lord, give me Christ, upon any terms, whatsoever He cost; for I am a...

  "I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM." -Job 33:24 [KJV] "Then He is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him (let the sinner be rescued) from going down to the pit (of everlasting destruction) :  I have found (devised and secured) a ransom (propitiation, satisfaction) ." The ransom the Father found was none other than His only begotten Son. He found our Surety before the world was made and appointed Him not only to be the Redeemer of His elect people, but the price of redemption as well.  Behold Him sent forth by the Father in marvelous grace and given as the ransom for the deliverance of chosen sinners from the claims of the law in His sufferings, agonies, death and resurrection. Who else except an infinitely wise God could have ever found so glorious, so precious and so worthy a ransom as this. Christ was the Priest Who offered the Sacrifice, and He was the Sacrifice Who was offered. In the ransom of sinners, Christ is all. -preacher Jim Byrd http://www.ser...

"Praise waiteth for T hee, O God, in Sion; and unto T hee shall the vow be performed." -Psalm 65:1 [KJV] What a sweet thing it is to bless and praise God! There is no feeling upon earth equal to it. But how often are we in that state when we can neither pray nor praise, when sullenness, frowardness, and peevishness seem to take such complete possession, that, so far from praising God, there is no power even to seek His face; and so far from blessing Him, there are even dreadful things working up in the heart against Him, which awfully manifest the enmity of the carnal mind. Those who are painfully exercised with such feelings are certain, therefore, that it is God's work to enable them to praise and bless His holy name.   And does not the heaven-taught soul come sometimes into this spot, "O that the Lord would give me something to praise Him for, would bring me out of this trial, break this wretched snare, remove this awful temptation, lift me out of this providen...