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

  Now I have found the ground wherein My anchor, hope, shall firm remain, The wounds of Jesus, for my sin Are born away in the Lamb slain; Whose mercy shall unshaken stay, When heaven and earth are fled away. [O grace, thou bottomless abyss, My sins are swallowed up in thee! Covered is my unrighteousness; From condemnation I am free. For Jesus’ blood, through earth and skies, Mercy, eternal mercy, cries.] Jesus, I know, has died for me; Here is my hope, my joy, my rest; Hither, when hell assails, I flee; I look into my Savior’s breast. Away, sad doubt and anxious fear; Mercy and love are written there. Fixed on this ground will I remain, Though my heart fail and flesh decay; This anchor shall my soul sustain, When earth’s foundations melt away. Mercy’s full power I then shall prove, Loved with an everlasting love. Tune: "Faith of Our Fathers"

"And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt."   -Hosea 2:15  [KJV] Now the "valley of Achor" signifies the "valley of trouble." It was the valley in which Achan was stoned. And why stoned? Because he had taken the accursed thing; because his eye had been captivated by the Babylonish garment and golden wedge, and he had buried them in the tent. This may throw a light on what the "valley of Achor" is spiritually. Perhaps you have been guilty of Achan's sin; you have been taking the accursed thing; have been too deeply connected with the world; have done things which God's displeasure is against. Let conscience speak in the bosom of each. The consequence has been, that you have got into the "valley of Achor!" Trouble, sorrow, and confusion are your lot, and you do not